Making American Artists Highlights Tour

Join us for a journey across time, medium and identity in a tour of Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776–1976. This flagship exhibition offers new narratives in American art history, embracing stories about women artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, and artists of color with over one hundred of the most acclaimed and iconic pieces in American art on display. Dennis Robinson, PAFA's Visitor Experience Supervisor, will lead a gallery walkthrough that will highlight PAFA’s legacy as well as its continuing role in shaping American art of the twenty-first century.

Registration includes the entrance fee to PAFA's Museum.

Image: Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), Flower Abstraction, 1914, Oil on canvas, framed: 49 3/8 x 42 x 2 in. (125.4125 x 106.68 x 5.08 cm.); microclimate frame: 63 5/8 x 56 3/16 x 3 3/4 in. (161.6075 x 142.71625 x 9.525 cm.); unframed: 42 3/8 x 34 7/8 in. (107.6325 x 88.5825 cm.), 2003.1.4, The Vivian O. and Meyer P. Potamkin Collection, Bequest of Vivian O. Potamkin.