Creative Living Series with James Phillips coming to Woodstock Opera House

Submitted by Woodstock Fine Arts Association

The Woodstock Fine Arts Association will host the Creative Living Series with James Phillips at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, at the Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St. Tickets are $24.

From ants to dinosaurs, from ethnographic to paleontological specimens, from 2 billion-year-old items to more recent additions, Chicago’s Field Museum, with 22 million objects, hosts one of the largest collections in the world.

Phillips offers a personal tour of this cultural institution, revealing behind-the-scenes stories of some fascinating objects and explaining why it’s important that we continue to collect.

Phillips is professor emeritus at University of Illinois-Chicago, works in North Africa and the Near East. He has curated the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, as well as Cleopatra, Eternal Egypt, Mammoths and Mastodons, The Lod Mosaic, and The Horse, and was co-curator of the Lascaux III exhibit.

For tickets, call the box office at (815) 338-5300 or www.woodstockoperahouse.com.