Artist Chawky Frenn Lectures at BlackRock

Lebanese-born artist Chawky Frenn will give a free lecture about his exhibit at BlackRock Center for the Arts, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1.

He'll be featuring new work the exhibit "Be The Change You Seek!," which opens Feb. 1, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 25 at 

The lecture is ssponsored by the .

Frenn is a well-travelled artist, exhibiting extensively nationally and internationally and gaining critical acclaim along the way. He said his artwork is influenced by the physical beauty and the turmoil of civil war of his birthplace, Zahlé, Lebanon, the BlackRock press release states.

His artwork aspires to call attention to “the incongruence of religion, the deception of politics, the tyranny of the economy, the delusion of the masses, and the vulnerability of the environment,” according to a press release from BlackRock. 

Frenn lives in Arlington, Va., and teaches at George Mason University.