Museum Education

rashaad newsome, black magic

Rashaad Newsome: Black Magic

Harriet Hosmer
Art At Noon

Subversion in Stone: Understanding Harriet Hosmer and Heteropatriarchy

Mark Stockton, "The Poet in His Bedroom or Walt Whitman in repose amongst a chaos of papers in Camden in 1891" (2018). Graphite on Arches paper, 52 x 42 inches (framed), 50 x 40 inches (unframed). Museum Purchase (2018.43) 2018

History Influences a New Work in the Permanent Collection

There are several Walt Whitman-related artworks in PAFA’s collection, but in celebration of Whitman’s 200th birthday, contemporary curator Jodi Throckmorton thought there was room for one more Whitman work in the permanent collection. She commissioned artist Mark Stockton to create a drawing of the…
Perspectives
Summer Academy student Max Brenneman works on a sculpture during class.

A Family Connection Draws High School Student to PAFA

16-year-old Max Brenneman is following in his older sister’s footsteps. In 2017 after his sister Sophie graduated from the MFA program, Brenneman began taking art classes at PAFA. This summer, Max dives further into his artistic practice by taking classes through the high school Summer Academy…
Perspectives
Conservation Lecture with Mary McGinn

Free Events at PAFA this September

From free museum days to lectures with artists and family art-making classes, PAFA has a full calendar of free events for everyone this month.
Frederic Edwin Church, "Valley of Santa Ysabel, New Granada" (1875)
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