24
September 2025

HOW THE WEST WAS SPUN: FROM SACAJAWEA TO JAKE ANGELI, THE ROLE OF 19TH C ART IN BUILDING THE AMERICAN PERSONA

Welcome to The Arts Society East Sussex
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 18:45
The Hove Club
28 Fourth Avenue Hove BN3 2PJ
Online Event

A look at Louisiana, its history and impact on modern America. 

In 1803, America bought Louisiana from Napoleon, doubling the size of the country overnight. What was in those 900,000 square miles? Who settled it? And how has the behaviour of those trailblazing misfits come to define the “cowboy attitude” of mainstream America through two centuries and the storming of the Capitol in January 2021? “It takes one to know one” as they say. Your lecturer was born in Iowa, in the heart of the Louisiana Purchase. Please leave your guns at the door.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Charles Harris

Charles Harris has had a life-long career in mainstream advertising agencies around the world, most of it as a Creative Director in global agencies (J Walter Thompson, Bates, FCB, Publicis, Leo Burnett). Responsible for the quality of the creative ideas and finished production of advertising campaigns, his work for many of the world’s great brands including British Airways, Sony, Nestle, Kraft, BP, Heinz, Black & Decker, Gillette, General Motors and McDonalds earned him national and global awards in New York, Hollywood, Singapore and Sydney. When it comes to art with a persuasive purpose, he gives his professional insight into what works, what doesn’t, and why.