We are pleased to kick off our 16th Annual Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m., when Carl Sprague will talk about his work as a designer for stage and film, including his work with famed film director Wes Anderson.
Carl Sprague has worked in the art department of more than 30 films, which between them have a combined total of 29 Oscar nominations, including best picture winner 12 Years a Slave. He has worked with Martin Scorsese (The Age of Innocence), Steven Spielberg (Amistad), and David Fincher (The Social Network), but the most enduring collaboration has been with Wes Anderson. Carl has been in the art department of three of Anderson’s best-reviewed films — The Grand Budapest Hotel (concept illustrator), 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom (assistant art director), and 2001’s cult classic The Royal Tenenbaums (art director, for which he was nominated for an Art Director’s Guild Award). Carl lives in Stockbridge, MA and New York.
Now in its 16th season, the Distinguished Lecture Series is organized and hosted by Dr. Jeremy Yudkin. Dr. Yudkin is a resident of the Berkshires and Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University. Every summer at the Lenox Library he presents the pre-concert lectures for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood season.
All programs in the Distinguished Lecture Series are free and open to the public.