Traveling Lecture Series

The Traveling Lecture Series, offered in conjunction with ongoing exhibitions, brings museum staff members out to your institution to give a talk about an artist or art movement important to our mission. We’ll bring a powerpoint presentation, information about PAFA programs, and our expertise in the field, and all we ask is that you bring an audience for us to share with. This program is free to the public. 

If your organization would be interested in booking a lecture or inquiring about future programs, please call 215-972-2105 or email mzimmerman@pafa.org, for more information.

Current Topics

200 Years Young: A Short History of Collecting and Exhibiting at PAFA
Ongoing in 2011

In July 1805, even before land for the first building had been secured, the founders of PAFA wrote to France asking for a collection of plaster casts from Paris. From this moment on, PAFA has been collecting, exhibiting and teaching from an evolving collection of masterworks in American Art. Drawing on examples of recent acquisitions like Maxfield Parrish's Dream Garden and Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic , gifts from the Herbert and Dorothy Vogel collection and Linda Lee Alter, this talk discusses how America's oldest museum and school of fine arts continues to find new ways to tell the story of America's most talented artists. 

 

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ public programs are funded in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency).