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A keynote lecture on the gendered relationship between the artist and the model in Picasso’s Vollard Suite by noted Picasso scholar and art historian from California State University at Long Beach Karen L. Kleinfelder. Dr.... more >
Director of the New England Arts and Architecture Program Martha J. McNamara will discuss the 1856 autobiographical landscape drawn by Pedro Tovookan Parris currently on view in the exhibit, A Usable Past: American Folk Art... more >
Assistant Professor at Princeton University Wendy Warren will discuss the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the culture of New England in the 17th-century.
Paintings conservator Nina Roth-Wells will discuss her work conserving paintings in the Museum’s collection of American folk art in preparation for the exhibition A Usable Past.
Folk art expert Lawrence Kassman ’69 will reveal the compelling stories and meanings behind some of the artworks on view in Weather Vanes and Trade Signs from a Distinguished New England Collection.
Associate Professor of Art at Longwood University Terri Sabatos is a noted scholar of the 19th-century imagery of death, grief, and mourning. Sabatos will discuss works of mortuary art and posthumous portraits in the exhibition A... more >
