Spring’s Barnet Scholars Weekend with Rebecca VanDiver, June 4, 2022

As one of the PMA’s marquee programs, the Barnet Scholars Weekend is designed to have an established scholar lead conversations with museum colleagues on topics related to 20th-century American art.

Rebecca VanDiver joins us for a presentation, “On Island: Place and Loïs Mailou Jones.”

Born in Boston, the African American artist Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998) spent most of her professional career living in Washington, D.C., where she was on the faculty at Howard University. Her summers, however, were spent on Martha’s Vineyard and in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In this lecture, VanDiver will consider the significance of island spaces, places, and time in Jones’s artwork from the first half of her career (1920–1960).

This program is generously funded by the Will Barnet Foundation