PAFA Announces Spring 2016 Public Programs

PHILADELPHIA (January 28, 2016) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is pleased to present an exciting line-up of public programming for spring 2016. Visit www.pafa.org/events to learn more.

PROCESSION: THE ART OF NORMAN LEWIS
A selection of the array of workshops, musical performances, lectures and discussions inspired by Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis, on view through April 3. ($15 general museum admission, free for members)

Black Artists Matter: A Philadelphia Round Table Saturday, February 6, 2 p.m. This program will highlight - and perhaps complicate - the reality of being a black artist in Philadelphia in the 1960s and 1970s. Panelists Moe Brooker, Martha Jackson Jarvis and Charles Burwell, in conversation with A.M. Weaver.

Philadelphia Jazz Project Presents Music Inspired By Norman Lewis Saturday, February 6, 4 p.m. Marcell Bellinger, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Jazz Project, presents a concert of jazz standards and an original composition written in response to Lewis' paintings on view in the galleries.

Jazz! Art! A Dialogue About Inspiration Sunday, March 13, 4 p.m. The Philadelphia Jazz Project co-hosts a conversation about these intersecting worlds and brings inspirational thinkers, performers and visual artists into one room to discuss how they work across genres to keep evolving creatively.

VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM
Thursdays, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. This student-run program brings an outstanding roster of contemporary artists to campus for lectures, critiques, performances and workshops. www.pafa.org/vap
February
4 -- Jillian Steinhauer is senior editor at Hyperallergic, where she writes about contemporary art, in particular the intersection of art and politics.
11 -- Hanneline Rogeberg creates art exploring the paradoxes of representation and language. Her paintings are deeply involved in the material challenges of painting.
25 -- Alejandro Almanza Pereda makes sculptures that explore registers of risk that are generally unacknowledged in everyday encounters in cities like New York or Mexico City.
March
3 -- Alexi Worth is a painter, curator, art critic, and writer known for his conceptually rich and visually graphic works that address modern life and art making.
17 -- Rachel Rose explores concepts of mortality through striking video installations that deftly merge moving images and sound with nuanced environments.
24&25 -- Peter Saul is a painter and printmaker known for his satirical commentary on American culture, politics, and history.
April
14 -- Alex Paik is an artist and the director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a network of artist-run spaces with locations in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles.
21 -- Gary Panter is a painter, designer, and comic book illustrator known for his focus on underground culture and his fun yet serious compositions.

ART AT LUNCH
Wednesdays, 12 - 1 p.m. Discussions and lectures with scholars and artists covering a variety of topics related to PAFA's exhibitions, collections, and areas of interest. www.pafa.org/aal
February
3 -- Norman Lewis: Complexity of Vision and Engagement with Susan Stedman, curator, museum and arts management consultant, and friend of Norman Lewis
10 -- When Threads and Large Lens Became a Cardboard Model of the Universe with Emil Lukas, artist currently exhibiting in PAFA's Morris Gallery
17 -- The Art of American Dance with Dr. Jane Dini, Associate Curator of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
24 -- Horopter and Peculiar Velocity with David Dempewolf, artist, gallery owner and PAFA faculty member
March
2 -- World War I and American Art with Heather Paroubek, PAFA curatorial assistant
16 -- Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance with Loren Schoenberg, Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem
23 -- Waterscapes: Representing the Sea in the American Imagination, 1760-1815 with Emily Casey, Terra Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian
30 -- "Dear Mamma, you must let me go": Memory and Loss in Post-Civil War American Art with Dr. Sarah Beetham, lecturer in art history at the University of Delaware and PAFA
April
6 -- Digitization and the Preservation of the Past with William Noel, Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Schoenberh Institure for Manuscript Studies at Penn
20 -- Alyson Shotz with Morris Gallery exhibiting artist Alyson Shotz
27 -- The Art of the Hunt in America with Adam M. Thomas,Curator of American Art at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State
May
6 -- Graduating PAFA Students and the Annual Student Exhibition

THE REVIEW PANEL PHILADELPHIA
Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. An annual series of four panel discussions hosted by The Review Panel and artcritical.com founder, New York arts critic and writer David Cohen. www.pafa.org/reviewpanel
February
17 -- Panelists Erick Miller, Judith Schaechter,and Barry Schwabsky
April
6 -- Panelists Ken Johnson, Edith Newhall,and Eileen Neff

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