Kate Nelson, author and former news writer and editor, will give a presentation titled “Three Women, One Story: 1,000 Years of Art, History and Culture in Under an Hour” at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.

The lecture is about artists Pablita Velarde, Helen Hardin and Margarete Bagshaw, who are from three different generations and influenced history in the Southwest.

Nelson is the author of a biography titled Helen Hardin: A Straight Line Curved and is managing editor of New Mexico Magazine. She was a former writer and editor at the Kansas City Star and Albuquerque Tribune and worked in public relations and marketing for the New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors.

The Center of Southwest Studies summer lecture series, based on the theme “Women in the Southwest,” is free and open to all.

For more information, call 247-7456.