Leonardo and Michelangelo, Quintessential Men of the Renaissance

Join Professor Emeritus Neill Slaughter to discover how Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti earned immortality through their creative genius.

About the Speaker

Artist Neill Slaughter graduated with a BFA degree in 1975 from the University of Georgia and an MFA in 1978 from Indiana University.  Professor Slaughter has taught fine arts courses at the university level as well as exhibited his drawings and paintings nationally and internationally for more than forty years. Having also lived and taught abroad as well as traveling extensively throughout the world, Slaughter’s paintings often reflect the social conditions of his surroundings. Among his awards and honors, Professor Slaughter has received a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Scottish Arts Council Grant, an LMU Research Grant to Africa and a Fulbright Fellowship to India. In 2003 Professor Slaughter was presented the David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching granted by Long Island University and in 2008 he mounted a thirty-year retrospective, which included a full color catalogue. In 2017 LIU granted him Professor Emeritus status and in 2022 Professor Slaughter mounted a fifty-year retrospective and lecture.