Scripps Fine Arts Foundation hosts a free public screening of the 20-minute documentary film “Laurie Brown: Artist Portrait” at 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 9 at Vita Nova Lecture Hall, 385 E. Ninth St., Claremont. The program will include a discussion with filmmaker Elizabeth Turk and writer Suzanne Muchnic, both Scripps College alumni.

Photographer Laurie Brown, a 1959 Scripps grad, captures the changing topography of Southern California and Nevada. Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

“I’m not making a moral or political judgment. I’m interested in the big picture,” read a Scripps news release. “Coming out of Scripps, you have a way of reasoning about the world, connecting with the time in which you’re living while at the same time attempting to maintain an awareness of the larger realities of both the past and the future.”

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