LEWISTON — Barry Nemett, chair of the painting department at the Maryland Institute of Art, will speak about his work in conjunction with the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition “Barry Nemett: Drawings from Italy.”

The rescheduled event will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in Room 104 at the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Nemett’s display of landscape drawings opened earlier this month, in conjunction with “Joel Babb: The Process Revealed,” an exhibit that uses Babb’s work to investigate the roles of both the act of drawing and the drawings themselves in the production of paintings.

Nemett’s lecture is open to the public at no cost.

A recepient of numerous awards, Nemett is also an author and a poet. He has penned a novel, a textbook and, most recently, a collection of writings and art titled “Paintings, Poems, and Passages.”

Open free of charge, the museum’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. For more information, call 786-6158.