WILLIAMSTOWN - Lisa Corrin, director of the Williams College Museum of Art, will deliver the fifth lecture in the annual Williams Faculty Lecture Series on Thursday, March 6.

Her talk, "When Art Needs Room to Breathe: The Marriage of Art and Urban Green Space on Seattle's Waterfront," will begin at 4 p.m. in Wege Auditorium in the Science Center. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

She will discuss Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park, opened in January 2007 on what had been a nine-acre waterfront industrial site. Corrin was the artistic lead on the park, as deputy director of art and the Jon and Mary Shirley curator of modern and contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum.

The lecture will look at the approach to the park's artistic program, which features major works by iconic modernists such as Anthony Caro, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Beverly Pepper, Louise Nevelson, Mark DiSuvero, Ellsworth Kelly and Tony Smith.

Corrin came to Williams College in 2005. She also was chief curator of the Serpentine Gallery in London and was chief curator at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. She earned her bachelor's degree from Mary Washington College and studied at University College in London. She did her graduate work at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Johns Hopkins University.

Corrin teaches an upper-level art history course exploring public art that will result in a practicum in which students propose policies, processes, and strategic vision for art on the Williams College campus.

Associate professor of art Peter Low will deliver the sixth and final lecture on Thursday, March 13. His lecture, "Materializing Metaphor: Bodies, Buildings, and Ephesians 2:11-22 in Medieval Art," will take place at 4 p.m. in Wege Auditorium.