MTSU Grad to host new Discovery Channel Art Show

December 1, 2008

Host of a new art show on the Travel Channel, Lee Sandstead-the world’s most fired-up Art Historian–spreads his passion for art; his way. Sandstead, an MTSU graduate, will share his love with cable viewers weekly!

Most of us remember sleeping through art history classes in college, or being forced to museums by our parents. Well-thanks to the passion of Lee Sandstead and a new TV show on the Travel Channel–that’s all about to change!

Called “Art Attack with Lee Sandstead,” the show is a fast and furious time going through the nation’s top museums looking at five must-see pieces.

Here is the official Travel Channel website:

http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Art_Attack

Saturday 12/6
6:00pm — Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC
6:30pm — Brooklyn Museum

Sunday 12/7
9am - The Frick Collection, NY
9:30am - Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

Sunday 12/14
9am - Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
9:30am - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sunday 12/21
9am - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
9:30am - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

About Lee Sandstead:

Lee Sandstead is the world’s most fired-up art historian. And of all that things that can be said about him-the most important is that he loves art. With “the help of a beautiful French woman,” he discovered art in his early 20’s, and ever since, he has traveled the world on one amazing art adventure after another.

Lee has developed a national reputation as an exciting and dramatic speaker about art and has expressed his passion for art at over 40 major institutions including: Harvard, Yale, New York University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery, and Duke University. He is one of the first art historians in America to incorporate his own digital photography of his travels into his presentations, and his photography has been published in numerous books and publications, including: The New York Times, Fortune, Ms., Preservation Magazine, Style 1900 and American Cemetery Magazine.

Lee received his B.A. Philosophy/B.S. Mass Communication from Middle Tennessee State University in December 1996, where he also received the prestigious award for Outstanding Magazine Journalism Graduate. He has studied art history at the University of Memphis’ graduate program, and most recently, at the art-history doctoral program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Lee taught art history at Montclair State University from 2001-2007.

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