Byzantine art expert Helen Evans

A specialist in early Christian, Byzantine and Armenian art, Evans installed the Jaharis Galleries of Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum in 2000, which were its first galleries dedicated to Byzantine art, and expanded the galleries in 2008. Her most recent exhibition “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition” covered the seventh through ninth centuries and closed in the summer of 2012 after receiving glowing reviews in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. The New York Review of Books’ Peter Brown, the leading scholar of this era, called it “magnificently conceived.”

Shouky Shaheen and his wife Doris are two of the many great patrons of the arts and our art programs at UGA. Their support regularly brings distinguished guests to campus who interact with studens as well as present their expertise in a public lecture. We're looking forward to this one.

Image: View of a Tree of Jesse from Swabia (c. 1300) from the South Gallery of the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art.