There are still seats open for this Friday evening's program at the Ridge Historical Society on photographing architecture. The event starts at 7 p.m., at RHS, 10621 S. Seeley Avenue. The cost is $10 for RHS members and $15 for non-members.
The program presenter is Mati Maldre. Mati, an Emeritus Professor of Art/Photography at Chicago State University, taught photography there and at the Beverly
Art Center for 35 years. His photographs have been widely published, placed in collections, and exhibited in the United States and abroad in/with significant organizations such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The International Venice Architecture Biennial and The
Chicago Architecture Biennial. Mati has photographed for The Encyclopedia Britannica, the U.S. Dept. of the Interior’s Historic
American Building Survey and Chicago’s Landmarks Commission. Maldre is the co-author with Paul Kruty and photographer for
Walter Burley Griffin in America and The Chicago Bungalow. He also provided 100 photographs for The Griffins in Australia and India,
and the Beverly chapter for The AIA Guide to Chicago Architecture. Mati has received numerous commissions, awards and honors including two Individual Graham Foundation Grants and a Graham Foundation Grant for his book, Walter Burley Griffin in America.
He has also earned a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Chicago Architecture Foundation Grant, an Illinois Humanities Council Grant and an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship. Currently Mati is the Chair of the RHS Historic Buildings Committee.
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