A lively panel discussion about Maine artist Marsden Hartley, celebrating the recent gift of four paintings by Hartley from the Alex Katz Foundation.

Join us for a Members Breakfast and auditorium program with Dr. Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Associate Professor of Art History at La Salle University, for Fall Barnet Scholars Weekend!

The PMA is excited to welcome Daniel T. Finamore, Associate Director–Exhibitions and the Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum, as the 2021’s Fall Barnet Scholar. Finamore was one of the co-curators for the groundbreaking exhibition In American Waters: The Sea in American Painting that was organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

The PMA is excited to welcome Jami Powell for this year's Barnet Scholars Weekend. Powell will discuss shifts in her own curatorial practice and how she has approached recent and ongoing projects at the Hood Museum of Art through the centering of Indigenous knowledges.

Members are invited to breakfast in the lower ground floor with Barnet Scholar Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg, Senior Curator at Smithsonian American Art Museum. Enjoy morning treats, refreshments, and conversation beginning at 9:30 a.m. before a special lecture with Mecklenburg in the Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium beginning at 10 a.m.

Don’t miss this special Barnet Scholar edition noontime talk featuring Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.