Italian Art Exhibit

Italian Art Exhibit Adds Dolce to University of Maryland, Baltimore's Vita A collection of contemporary Italian artworks is coming to the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The exhibit is part of a celebration of UMB's Founders Week, and of the naming of Alessio Fasano, MD, director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Celiac Research, as UMB's 2009 Research Lecturer of the Year. There are more than 50 pieces in the display, with a dozen of the pieces to be auctioned at a fundraising dinner on Oct. 22. A significant part of the display is a collection of paintings and ceramic sculptures entitled 12 Artists for the Medical School of Salerno and has been exhibited in that southern Italian city, which is home to the Medical School of Salerno, a sister institution to the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The curator, Professor Paola Capone of the University of Salerno, commissioned 12 artists and assigned each one to create a work that would reflect the characteristics of the school's botanical garden in a different month. Some of the artists were inspired by the plants that were used to cure diseases, others by the doctors, by the architecture of Salerno, or by the local myths. The art will be on display the week of Oct. 19-23 at the new Southern Management Corporation Campus Center, 621 W. Lombard St., Baltimore. The installation is being displayed as part of UMB's Founders Week celebration. A fundraising dinner benefitting the Center for Celiac Research and auction of some of the artworks will take place Oct. 22. The event also marks the joint academic relationship between the University of Maryland and the Medical School of Salerno. For more information call 410-706-8021 or email pking@peds.umaryland.edu.