Lectures

Learn from home! Cummer Beaches presents a three-part virtual lecture series with P. Scott Brown, PhD, Professor of Art History, University of North Florida. Experience this series of talks highlighting a selection of works in the Cummer Museum’s permanent collection. A Zoom link for access will be sent to all registrants the week of the lecture.

Degas and the Past
Free | Registration required 

For this virtual lecture entitled, Radical Naturalism: Bringing Heade's Environmental Realism into the 21st Century, artist and professor, Jim Draper will speak from his studio on environmental art from the past and new ideas and concepts of documenting the current ecological landscapes of the world. 

Free | Registration required

Join art lecturer Cindy Edelman and writer Stacey Goldring for the second season of LiterARTure.

Running For Cover                         

With fear and unknowing, the pandemic has unhinged us. Cindy Edelman and Stacey Goldring run for cover and retreat to 19th century art and literature in order to find context in our turbulent times.

Learn from home! Cummer Beaches presents a three-part virtual lecture series with P. Scott Brown, PhD, Professor of Art History, University of North Florida. Experience this series of talks highlighting a selection of works in the Cummer Museum’s permanent collection. A Zoom link for access will be sent to all registrants the week of the lecture.

Pietà and Lamentation: Themes of Compassion in Cummer Collection
Free | Registration required

You’re invited to tune in virtually for a lecture by Abra Lee, renowned horticulturist and founder of Conquer the Soil and BIPOC Working Hort Group. In this discussion, Lee will discuss creating inclusive gardens in unconventional spaces.