Lectures

In this lecture artist and educator Lynn Stanley will explore Lazzell’s work through the lens of these formative connections with artist-mentors and friends, along with Lazzell’s legacy as an educator, and her formidable influence as a master of the Provincetown Print.

Join us online for a presentation and Q+A session with PAAM’s CEO, Christine McCarthy and exhibition curator, Robert Bridges. They’ll discuss Lazzell’s work and her shift from European-derived modernism to her development of an American style before opening the virtual room up for questions.

Peter McMahon is the Founding Director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT), incorporated in 2008 to archive, restore and celebrate the Outer Cape’s 20th century modern architecture and the creative culture that surrounded it.

Tom Burr (b. 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a conceptual artist who lives and works in New York and Connecticut. He attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Burr's work revisits the formal vocabulary of minimalism and post-minimalism, and explores the themes of homosexuality, public versus private spaces, and architecture. He has shown extensively throughout Europe and the Americas. Burr is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.

Please join us for the inaugural Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture of the 2026 summer season with exhibiting artist Jackie Reeves. Included with $15 Museum admission, free for PAAM members.

Co-curator and Center for Coastal Studies Scientist/Artist-in-Residence will lead a panel discussion as part of our Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series. Included with $15 Museum admission, free for PAAM members.

Artist and teacher Fritz Horstman discusses his studio practice and his book,  Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments in this Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture. Artist, educator, curator, and author Fritz Horstman's lecture will be two-faceted. He will cover both his new book, which is a companion to Josef Albers’s beautiful and canonical, though sometimes opaque, Interaction of Color, first published in 1963, and some of his own artwork, which is deeply informed by working so closely with the work of Anni and Josef Albers. Horstman's book focuses on 8 essential experiments in Albers’s text, providing more images, step-by-step explanations, new resources, and anecdotes from Albers’s classes and from his own. The lecture will transition to his studio practice, where he'll share images of his Folded Cyanotypes and Folded Palladiums, made by folding photo-sensitive paper, as well as images of several new sculptures and videos in which he describes glacial valleys with a wide range of materials and processes. The lecture will conclude with images of what's happening in his studio this summer.

ON VIEW offers an opportunity for artists and art lovers to visit PAAM and engage in a group discussion about selected pieces on exhibition during the 2026 summer season. Facilitator Megan Hinton will lead an investigative inquiry into the form, process, and content of selected artworks. This in depth look will offer viewers surprise and expansion in relation to exhibited artworks. Sessions will also provide artist participants greater insight and influence for their own practice. A deeper visual study of an art work’s historic, conceptual, and technical vocabulary will broaden artistic dialogue. All are welcome and participants may enroll in one, two, or all three gallery talks scheduled over the course of the summer. See what's on view here.

Curator Joe Fiorello will be joined by Edwina Rissland to discuss her late father's exhibition, Revisitations, for this Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture. Included with $15 Museum admission, free for PAAM members.

Please join us for a panel discussion on the artist Marcia Marcus in conjunction with the exhibition Strange and Clear, curated by Brandon Brame Fortune and Debra Lennard. Included with $15 Museum admission, free for PAAM members.