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.
CURRENT TOPICS
200 Years Young: A Short History of Collecting and Exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
May, June, July and August 2010
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 Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic and gifts from the Andy Warhol Foundation and Herbert and Dorothy Vogel collection which will be on view during the summer of 2010, 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.
Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
October, November, and December 2010
Depictions of artists and their workspaces have long fascinated art lovers, from Charles Willson Peale's triumphant and revealing Artist in His Museum to Florine Stettheimer's idyllic Picnic at Bedford Hills. Featuring works on view at PAFA in the fall of 2010, this talk explores the constantly evolving, complex and often very funny nature of artistic identity, from the very public to the intensely private.
If your organization would be interested in finding out about additional upcoming traveling series, please call 215-972-2105 or email
mzimmerman@pafa.org, for more information.