SOLD OUT | 2026 Judy Glickman Lauder Photography Lecture: Sally Mann
When:
Sunday, August 30, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Where:
Portland Museum of Art
12:00 p.m. (doors open at 11:30 a.m.)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium
Join us for a rare opportunity to hear acclaimed artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann share the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process.
Art Work: On the Creative Life (Abrams Press, 2025) is a candid, provocative meditation on creativity. Illustrated with photographs, journal entries, and letters, Art Work offers hard-won insight into the perils of early promise, the caprice of luck, the discipline of the work itself, and the quiet courage required to say yes.
Mann will join Erin Hyde Nolan, a photo historian who studies lens-based media and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Bates College, for a conversation exploring the ideas at the heart of the book.
Art Work: On the Creative Life is available for purchase in the PMA Store. Members receive 10% off. Sally will be available for signing after the lecture.
Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Her many books include At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), Proud Flesh (2009), The Flesh and the Spirit (2010), Remembered Light (2016) and A Thousand Crossings ( 2018). In 2001 Mann was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine. A 1994 documentary about her work, Blood Ties, was nominated for an Academy Award and the 2006 feature film What Remains was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008. Her bestselling memoir, Hold Still (Little, Brown, 2015), received universal critical acclaim, was named a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. In March 2018, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and traveled until 2020. This comprehensive exploration of Mann’s relationship with the South garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews and record-breaking attendance. In 2021 Mann received the Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and sustainability for her series Blackwater (2008-2012). In 2022 she was inducted into the American Academy of Art and Sciences and in 2025 Mann published another best-selling book, Art Work: On the Creative Life (Abrams), which garnered unanimous praise. Mann is represented by Gagosian, New York. She lives and works in Lexington, Virginia.
About the Judy Glickman Lauder Lecture
Each year, the Portland Museum of Art welcomes leading artists, scholars, and voices in photography for the Judy Glickman Lauder Lecture, one of the museum's marquee annual events. The lecture offers in-depth insight into the people, perspectives, and culture shaping the field of photography.
Judy Glickman Lauder is internationally known as an acclaimed photographer, collector, humanitarian, advocate, philanthropist, and community builder. Her life’s work, whether through her art, her generosity, or her collecting, is defined by a deep appreciation for life and all its intricacies. This fascination with humanity, and the nuances and complexities therein, encompasses all her creative and spiritual endeavors, and has led her across the world in the pursuit of connecting people to one another.
Erin Hyde Nolan (Ph.D., Boston University) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bates College. She studies the circulation of lens-based media and visual culture from the modern Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds. Her monograph-in-progress, Portrait Atlas: The Migration of Photographs Across the Ottoman-Atlantic, demonstrates the ways in which photographs from the Islamic world cross-pollinate trans-Atlantic geographies. She is also the co-author, with Sophie Junge, of Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe (Routledge, 2022), and has published in the Routledge Companion to Art and Formation of Empire, Trans-Asia Photography, Ars Orientalis, Reading Objects in the Contact-Zone, and Fotogeschichte. Her scholarship has been supported by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, Getty Research Institute, Terra Foundation for American Art, Kunsthistorisches Institut-Florenz, Max-Planck Society, and Historians of Islamic Art Association.
