So I'm really proud to be part of the show and involved in the whole Dante discussion going on. It's my second time to Ithaca and I'm really- the first time I came I saw the museum and I was dying to be in a show here and now I am. I have to say thank you to Laurent and Andy for bringing me here. He's going to talk to us today, of course, about his large body of work around Dante's Divine Comedy. His recently published mega project, American Quran, about which he spoke while it was in process last time he was here visiting us at Cornell a few years ago is an illuminated manuscript of the entire Quran in English. And he was awarded an Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 2007. He has been the recipient of a number of different fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright, and a Getty Fellowship for painting.
Recent projects across his career, multimedia projects, have included works themed to inner city violence, graffiti, social and political issues, travel, prisons, Islam, surfing, and skateboarding. He's a Los Angeles based artist, originally a graduate of the Otis Parsons Institute, whose work deals with contemporary life. He's been with us over the past couple of days, and we've really been enjoying his presence, including a recent screening of his film, about which he'll talk a little bit when he comes to the podium.
And it's my great pleasure to introduce one of my favorite artists who has a major presence in the Visions of Dante exhibition, Sandow Burke. I'm the Askin Curator of Earlier European and American art here at the Johnson Museum.
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