The Freehold Art Society will hold a meeting and lecture at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, on Wednesday, March 26th, 2014, from 7:00-8:30 PM. Eduardo Mungiello, a Freehold Borough resident, will present a program titled, "The Basics of Alla Prima Painting: Techniques of the Dutch and Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century." He holds a doctorate in European Cultural History and a Master's degree in Art History with a concentration in the Italian Renaissance, was a scholar in residence at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Oxford, England, and published with Cambridge Scholars. He has studied traditional painting independently in Florence, Rome, and New York, and teaches privately. Mungiello taught at many institutions and is presently an adjunct professor at Essex County College and Brookdale Community College. He is also a member of the Freehold Borough Arts Council.
     The meeting is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. The library requests visitors to park in the Alexandria Drive lot behind the library. Handicapped access is available. Check at the desk in the library for the room assignment. For more information contact the society at:freeholdartsoc@optonline.net , or 732-938-6415, or www.freeholdartsoceity.homestead.com .