10:00 AM: – Oriental Institute Information:
Oriental Institute is commemorating its 100th anniversary. The galleries have just been redesigned, with more conservation-safe and visitor friendly exhibits and captions. A stone relief from Persepolis depicting a lion attacking a bull has been returned to the OI from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after eighty years on loan.

The Oriental Institute was founded in 1919 by James Henry Breasted, America’s first Egyptologist, with the financial support of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and was originally envisaged as a research laboratory for the investigation of the early human career that would trace humankind’s progress from the most ancient days of the Middle East. The goal of the Oriental Institute is to be the world’s leading center for the study of ancient Near Eastern civilizations by combining innovation in theory, methodology, and significant empirical discovery with the highest standards of rigorous scholarship. The entire collection is from the OI’s own excavations or purchase, all with full cooperation with the host countries.

Bio Sketch: Joseph G. Barabe is a Research Microscopist and Scientific Imaging Specialist at Barabe & Associates LLC, established after his retirement from McCrone Associates in Westmont, IL as Senior Research Microscopist and Director of Scientific Imaging. He is also a long time member of SMSI. His primary interests are in the analysis of art materials, documents and historical objects, and in photomicro- and -macrography and invisible radiation photography. Joe is also an instructor at the Hooke College of Applied Sciences, teaching workshops in pigment identification, printing process identification, photomicrography and scientific imaging.

Joe has a BA from Michigan State, and he studied art materials microscopy under the tutelage of Dr. Walter C. McCrone, the founder of the McCrone Research Institute and McCrone Associates, where Joe worked for 24 years until his retirement in 2013, and chemistry under Professor Bill Mikuska at Triton College.

Admission Free (donations accepted)

Group Lunch Afterwards at the Nile Restaurant, 1162 E 55th St, Chicago, IL 60615 (Dutch-treat)
Contact Freddie Smith for Reservations / Cancellations at 312-842-7100 or Freddie@mcri.org
by Noon, Friday, October 18, 2019.

Parking is easily available on University Avenue next to the museum. From the Midway Plaisance, take Woodlawn north to the first stop sign, turn left, University is one block west of Woodlawn. MAP

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