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MCNAY ART MUSEUM INVITES COMMUNITY TO MEET BESTSELLING TRANSGENDER AUTHOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN

Tickets On Sale for September 12 Program

WHAT: As a part of the current exhibition Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, the McNay Art Museum invites the San Antonio community to attend a distinguished lecture with transgender author, activist, and teacher Jennifer Finney Boylan. Boylan was an advisor to the television series Transparent, and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.

During the program titled Gender, Imagination, Resistance, Boylan will discuss the changing landscape for LGBTQ Americans, writers, and people of good heart. She will also read from her bestselling memoir, She’s Not There, which explores the territory that lies between men and women, changing friendships, and the redeeming power of love and family.She encourages readers to engage with art, and with each other, as a means of promoting understanding and changing the world.

Books signed by the author will be available for purchase in the Museum Store. This is also a great opportunity to view the current McNay exhibitions, Andy Warhol: Portraits and Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today before they close on September 15.

Space is limited. Tickets: McNay Members $25; Not-yet Members $35; educators, teens, and students $15. Includes admission to exhibitions Andy Warhol: Portraits and Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today. Tickets can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/JenniferBoylanLecture

This lecture is a program of the Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner Lecture Series.

WHEN: Thursday, September 12 at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: McNay Art Museum – 6000 N New Braunfels, San Antonio, TX 78209

Chiego Lecture Hall