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and now hangs in many of the world's most famous collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Vatican. A major retrospective of his life's works, "Jacob Lawrence, American Painter", was organized by the Seattle Art Museum and recently appeared at Atlanta's High Museum of Art. The exhibit is currently at the Phillips Collection in Washingnton, D. C. and will be presented at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum later this year. A native of Atlantic City, New Jersey, he expressed his artistic interest early in childhood and became, at age 24, the first black artist ever represented in a major New York gallery. He has taught at various colleges and universities, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters--the nation's highest honor for cultural achievement. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Washington in Seattle. Leontyne Price, universally regarded as one of the great artists of our time, boasts a distinguished career as an operatic and concert singer of extraordinary talent. A native of Laurel, Mississippi, she played the piano at the age of five and later sang in the Junior Choir. After receiving a B.A. from Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio, she was awarded a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She made her Paris debut in 1952 in Four Saints in Three Acts, and toured Vienna, Berlin, London and Paris in (MORE)