Jordi Falgas, the Cleveland Fellow in modern art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will speak at 4 p.m., March 23, in Norman Campbell Lecture Hall of the Andy Holt Humanities Building at the University of Tennessee at Martin. His topic will be “100 Years of Avida Dollars: Salvador Dali, Where Art Means Business.”

Falgas received a bachelor’s degree from the Universitat de Barcelona in 1988, a master’s degree from Michigan State University in 1995 and is in the doctoral program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also is currently assisting in the organization of a major exhibition devoted to modern art from Barcelona at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From 1988-1992, he worked as a journalist and art critic for the Catalan newspaper El Punt and as assistant executive manager at the Salvador Dalí Foundation in Figueres, Spain. He is the author of the Dalí monograph, “Dalí: Painter, paint!” and has lectured, published articles and organized several exhibitions on Dalí and other modern and contemporary Spanish artists.

Falgas’ appearance is co-sponsored by the International Business Lecture Series (IBLS), the Center for Global Studies, the Department of Visual and Theater Arts and the Department of Modern Foreign Languages.

The IBLS was created as part of the Business and International Education (Title VI grant) program.

For more information, contact Dr. Paul Crapo at (731) 881-7484 or paucrapo@utm.edu.