Mary Cassatt: Labor and Leisure
Academy Art Museum 106 South Street, Easton, MD, United StatesReception: Friday, January 20, 5:30–7 pmMary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) is one of the greatest American artists in history. She has contributed subtle yet powerful and lucid observations of women’s daily lives, with a particular focus on the tender moments between mothers and their children, presenting them as artistic subjects worthy of full, nuanced consideration. Mary Cassatt: […]
Mary Cassatt: Labor and Leisure
Academy Art Museum 106 South Street, Easton, MD, United StatesReception: Friday, January 20, 5:30–7 pmMary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) is one of the greatest American artists in history. She has contributed subtle yet powerful and lucid observations of women’s daily lives, with a particular focus on the tender moments between mothers and their children, presenting them as artistic subjects worthy of full, nuanced consideration. Mary Cassatt: […]
Collection Highlights from the AAM Vault
Academy Art Museum 106 South Street, Easton, MD, United StatesArt lovers are invited to join us for a special tour of highlights from Academy Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. Curator Mehves Lelic will present works from across art history straight from the Museum’s vault, including etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Charles Daubigny, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Salvador Dali; works on paper by critically acclaimed […]
Travelers: A Book Talk with Helon Habila & Matthew Davis
Academy Art Museum 106 South Street, Easton, MD, United StatesJoin Nigerian-born author Helon Habila and Matthew Davis, Director of the George Mason University Alan Cheuse International Writers Center (ACIWC), for a conversation about Habila’s latest book Travelers. Travelers focuses on a Nigerian scholar who travels to Berlin with his American wife for a fellowship that entails creating a portrait series of African migrants. In […]
Artist Talk with Nancy Floyd
Academy Art Museum 106 South Street, Easton, MD, United StatesNancy Floyd is a photographic artist and Professor Emerita at Georgia State University. Her project, Weathering Time, consists of nearly four decades of anti-perfectionist self-portraits and is included in the Academy Art Museum's current exhibition, Fickle Mirror: Dialogues in Self-Portraiture. “…the photographs show, in fractions of a second, my body standing in an environment (mainly, […]