Art At Noon

Lifelong Learning

Enjoy online discussions and lectures with scholars and artists covering a variety of topics related to PAFA’s exhibitions, collections, and areas of interest. The Art At Noon series is held on Wednesdays 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM. All events are free and registration is required. 

Take a peek at some of our favorite past presentations on PAFA's YouTube Channel!

James Van Der Zee's Florence Mills, singer & comedienne
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A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography

Anne Minich's work, Vermillion
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Making Strange: Sacred Imagery and the Self

Color slide of Peale House still life class. Includes five unidentified students.
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The Promise of a Promise: A Short History of Artist Residencies

Charles Willson Peale's oil painting of George Washington at Princeton
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Finding Black Founders in Iconic Early American Portraits

Pastel image of a mountain view from inside a window, by Henry McCarter. The piece is called,  Morgantown (Attic window), ca. 1941, and its color palette is cool with blues, purples, and greens.
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Appalachian Art: Presence and Absence in American Museum Collections

Almost life-size grisaille painting of a Grecian woman sculptor at work, with bust of Benjamin Franklin
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Philadelphia History through Art

Image: Miriam Schapiro, Renewal, 1995, Mixed media collage of acrylic and fabric on canvas, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter
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Miriam Schapiro: Patterns of Influence

Sofia Sierra ASE Image
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Celebrate the ASE: Undergraduate Students

Annie Thompson ASE Installation
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Celebrate the ASE: Graduate Students

Oil painting by Jane Peterson titled "Spring Bouquet" circa 1912. The painting is vertical, with a single figure walking down a path in a field of white flowering plants. The figure is wearing a summer print blouse, and a full length white skirt, holding a white and blue parasol. She is reaching to pick one flower.
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The Artist's Garden

image of an artwork by William Villalongo titled Sphinx, 2023 (DETAIL). Acrylic, velvet paper and collage on a wood panel. Courtesy of ©Villalongo Studio LLC
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William Villalongo on Where the Black Atlantic meets the Black Mediterranean

Image of a color serigraph by Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000), "Revolt on the Amistad", Abstract figures of many colors, arms tangled together .
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Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club

Fred Wilson, I Saw Othello's Visage in His Mind, 2013, Murano glass and wood, 64 in. × 51 1⁄2 in. × 7 in. (162.6 × 130.8 × 17.8 cm) irreg., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2019.8, © 2013, Fred Wilson
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The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture

image of collaged old and discolored newspaper clippings and an old typewritten note.
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Arts Criticism and John Rhoden

black and white photo of Gen. Lemuel Mathewson on left side of the frame, his left hand pensively placed on his chin, looking at "Bather" by Milton Avery, Berlin, 1951
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Cold War Modernism

Color photograph of Fred Shuttlesworth modeling for John Rhoden during a sculpting session for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute commission at Rhoden's home at 23 Cranberry Street in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Retracing Rhoden’s Birmingham: An Artist’s Relationship with his Hometown

installation view of Lenka Clayton's work, "The True Story of a Stone". It is a gallery view with a classic Greek marble sculpture of a woman on the right and a small lifesize marble sculpture of a pekin duck. The walls have various types of paintings and ephemera, hung salon-style. An ornate rose-colored stained glass window is in the center of the gallery wall.
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The minute, minutes began.

still image from Ahmadi's animation 'Marooned', colorful painting of a group of humanoid creatures hauling rocks over a hill towards a beach with a body of deep blues of water
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Shiva Ahmadi - Moving Paintings

Graphic with the title of the the program
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reckoning & repair: the art that's touched Philadelphia

Portrait of the Rami George in the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way LGBT Community Center. Photo by Ryan Collerd, courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
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Selections from Philadelphia’s LGBT Archives

Composite of two images: John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), The Freedman, 1863, bronze, and Letitia Huckaby (b. 1972), "Ms. Jocelyn", 2022, Pigment print on fabric with embroidery.
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An Emancipation Conversation

Taylor Pate (MFA), Mystic Milk, oil on linen, 30 x 38 inches, 2023
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Celebrate the ASE: Graduate Students

Image:  Nitza Tufiño, La Llegada de Nuestro Pueblo (The Family Portrait), 2011, Oil on canvas.
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Nitza Tufiño: Asserting Presence

Grace Meredith
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Celebrate the ASE: Undergraduate Students

Program Support

The spring's Art At Noon lectures are supported by the Lefkoe family,  in memory of a beloved member of the docent corps, Mildred T. Lefkoe.

The fall's Art At Noon lectures are supported by the Behrend Family in memory of Rose Susan Hirschhorn Behrend, a former docent at the Academy and great supporter of its education programs.