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MADRAS - The Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences "Art About Agriculture" program and the Jefferson County Arts Association are co-sponsoring a free public art lecture by Pendleton painter James Lavadour on Thursday, July 24, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

The lecture will be in Jefferson County Library's Rodriguez Annex, 241 S.E. 7th Street in Madras.

Lavadour's homelands are Oregon's Blue Mountain Range and Columbia Basin wheat country. These inspire him to paint his large-scale, spectral oil paintings. The artist will give an illustrated lecture about his creative process as it relates to his sense of place.

This lecture is a companion to OSU's Art About Agriculture Tour 2003 exhibition, hosted by Art Adventure Gallery in Madras, July 1-26.

Lavadour is founder and director of Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts in Pendleton. His work is among those of 26 artists selected by the Portland Art Museum to participate in the museum's Oregon Biennial.

The lecture is partially funded by the Oregon Council for the Humanities, a statewide nonprofit organization and independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information contact Shelley Curtis, 541-737-2662.