Adult Lectures
Check out the list below for upcoming lectures at the CMA. Interested in viewing past lectures? Visit the YouTube playlist here.
See also our annual lecture series.
- Sat., February 29, 2020, 2:00 pm
Renée Sentilles, professor of history at Case Western Reserve University, and Mark Bassett, instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, join Stephen Harrison, curator of Tiffany in Bloom, for a lively conversation about women artists in Tiffany Studios, including Ohio native and CIA graduate Clara Driscoll, in the context of women’s changing roles in the early 20th-century workplace.
- Wed., March 4, 2020, 6:00 pm
Photographer Sophie Schwartz, daughter of collectors Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz, discusses the importance of the contact sheet in the darkroom process and reflects on works in the exhibition. Free; ticket required. Space is limited.
- Tue., March 10, 2020, 12:00 pm
Join curator Barbara Tannenbaum to explore the work of Ilse Bing and learn about her involvement with feminist art movements in 1930s Europe and 1970s America. Free; ticket required. Space is limited.
- Sat., March 14, 2020, 10:00 am
In anticipation of a major exhibition and publication focused on the Cleveland Museum of Art’s holdings of 19th-century French drawings in spring 2022, scholars from across the globe present new research related to the materials, function, and collecting of drawings during this period.
- Wed., March 18, 2020, 5:30 pm
Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940) is best known for his small-scale genre scenes of intimate, daily life. Gloria Groom from the Art Institute of Chicago focuses on his lesser-known large-scale decorative paintings. Free; no reservation required.
- Sun., March 22, 2020, 12:00 pm
Andrew Cappetta, manager of collection and exhibition programs, reveals how photographs play with reality and illusion. Free; ticket required. Space is limited.
- Wed., March 25, 2020, 5:30 pm
In this illustrated lecture, Carolyn Kinder Carr, Case Western Reserve University alumna and former deputy director and chief curator at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, describes the arc of Sara Tyson Hallowell’s career.
- Sat., March 28, 2020, 2:00 pm
Senegalese fine art, fashion, and advertising photographer Omar Victor Diop (b.
- Thu., April 2, 2020, 6:00 pm
CMA at Transformer Station
Join Andrew Cappetta, manager of exhibition and collection programs, for a discussion about the work of photographer Aaron Rothman, who uses a variety of analog and digital techniques to create sublime, abstract images of the western American landscape.
- Fri., April 3, 2020, 5:30 pm
At the turn of the last century, what most Americans knew about Greek and Roman art they knew through the medium of plaster.