Start your morning with free coffee, pastries, and a conversation with Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Leah Triplett, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
- 10:30 a.m. – Coffee and snacks
- 11 a.m. – Talk and Q&A
- 12:30 p.m. – Visit the galleries as part of Free First Thursday
Leah Triplett is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Previously she was a curator at Now + There, where she facilitated the Public Art Accelerator and organized large-scale public art commissions in Boston. Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, ArtNet News, Sculpture, Public Art Dialogue, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She taught MFA painting and sculpture students at Boston University from 2021 to 2023.
Since joining the Portland Art Museum in 2012, Dr. Mary Weaver Chapin has overseen a collection of over 20,000 graphic works and serves as the president of the Print Council of America. A specialist in 19th-century French art, she has curated award-winning international exhibitions and published extensively on artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Warrington Colescott.
