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Artist Paul Stopforth gives a talk and shows slides of his work at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Presented by Burlington City Arts.  Early in his career, Paul Stopforth produced several bodies of work that were startling in their courageous engagement with the repressive society in which he found himself. His uncompromising refusal to turn away from a world of pain and injustice cost him dearly, but earned him enormous respect from his peers and from discerning art critics who saw his work in its first, youthful incarnations at The Market Theatre Gallery, where he was a director from 1977 to 1984. Stopforth left South Africa for the United States in the late 1980s, despairing that there would ever be change in South Africa. He took up a teaching position at Harvard University and exhibited his work at many museums and galleries in the USA. For more information visit www.BurlingtonCityArts.com or www.PaulStopforth.com.