Marquette University will honor Fred Barzyk with the 2001 Kairos Award. Marquette University president, the Reverend Robert A. Wild, S.J. and Haggerty Museum of Art director Curtis L. Carter, will present the award at the Haggerty Museum's 17th annual fall gala. The gala will be held at 6:30 p.m., Friday, September 28, at the Haggerty Museum of Art.

The Kairos Award is given annually by Marquette University to recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations who have helped to further the advancement of the fine arts through contributions and services to the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, or through other fine arts related activities at the University and the greater community.

Marquette alumnus Fred Barzyk (1958) has made pioneering contributions to the development of broadcast television and video art over the past forty years.  As a producer and director, he provided a platform for artists to work within a television studio, an environment that was for the most part inaccessable to artists during this time.  His projects have included work with artists William Wegman, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Peter Campus, Allan Kaprow; writers Kurt Vonnegut, James Baldwin, Charles Johnson; actors Lilly Tomlin, Gilda Radner; and dancers Trisha Brown, Gus Solomons, Jr., Louis Falco, and Rudy Perez.  As the founder and first director of the WGBH New Television Workshop (1967-1979), Barzyk created an environment where the first generation of video artists, in conjunction with dancers, photographers and actors, expanded the creative boundaries of both broadcast television and video art.

"The Haggerty Museum of Art is pleased to honor this distinguished Marquette Alumnus who has significantly advanced experimental work in television and media arts," says museum director Curtis L. Carter.

The Haggerty Museum of Art is currently showing The Search for a Personal Vision in Broadcast Television: Fred Barzyk featuring experimental television and video arts developed during Barzyk's tenure as director and producer at WGBH Boston.  The exhibition will be on display at the Haggerty Museum from September 7 through December 2, 2001.

The Kairos Award was first established in 1990 and has been awarded annually.  Recipients of the Kairos Award have been Beatrice Haggerty, Patricia and Robert Apple, and Janet and Marvin Fishman in 1990, David and Mary Scott and trustees of the Layton School of Art Foundation in 1991, Mary B. Finnigan and Lillian Berkman in 1992, Joan Pick and the Evan and Marion Helfaer Foundation in 1993, John P. Raynor, S.J. and the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation, Inc. in 1994, James Auer and Richard Lippold in 1995, the Marquette University Women's Council in 1996, Roberto Matta in 1997, the Board of Trustees of the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1998, Curtis L. Carter in 1999, and David and Catherine Straz in 2000.

To make a reservation for the fall gala 2001, contact the Haggerty Museum of Art at (414)288-7290.  Deadline for reservations is Friday, September 21.