Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com
January 17 – April 12, 2025
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections
Thursday, January 16, 5 p.m.
Opening Night Lecture: Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
Mary Ann Hollihan, exhibition curator, interviewed by Carey Weber, Museum Director
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Thursday, January 16, 6-8 p.m.
Reception: Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
Bellarmine Hall, Great Hall and Bellarmine Hall Galleries
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com
Tuesday, January 21, 5 p.m.
Lecture: ‘To Paint without Paint': Tonalism and Transcendence
Adrienne Bell, PhD, Professor of Art History, Marymount Manhattan College
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive com
Friday, January 31, Noon
Gallery Talk: A Landscape Artist Responds: Suzanne Chamlin on Tonalism exhibition
Bellarmine Hall Galleries
Thursday, February 27, 5-6:30 p.m.
Workshop: Painting Landscapes with Watercolor
A Mini Workshop led by artist Suzanne Chamlin
Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom
Wednesday, March 26, 5 p.m.
Virtual Lecture: Tonalism Paintings in the Collection of the FloGris
Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator, Florence Griswold Museum
Streaming only on the quicklive.com
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com
See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
January 24 – March 29, 2025
Walsh Gallery
Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change.
Thursday, January 23, 5:30 p.m.
Opening Night Lecture: To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home*
David Brinker (Director, St. Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art) and Al Miner (Independent Curator and Deputy Director, U S Holocaust Memorial Museum), Co-curators of the exhibition Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre and streaming on thequicklive.com
Thursday, January 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Reception: To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home* Quick Center for the Arts, Walsh Gallery and Lobby
Wednesday, March 5, 12:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Artist Mary Mattingly
Quick Center for the Arts, Walsh Gallery
*Part of the Edwin L Weisl, Jr Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com
April 11 – August 16, 2025
Walsh Gallery
This exhibition will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years.
Thursday, April 10, 5:30 p.m.
Opening Lecture: Historical Origins of the Great Hunger
William Abbott, PhD, Associate Professor, History and Irish Studies
Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre, and streaming on thequicklive.com
Thursday, April 10, 6:30-8:30 p m
Reception: An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Quick Center for the Arts, Walsh Gallery and Lobby
Tuesday, April 15, 6 p m
Lecture: The History of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection
Niamh O’Sullivan, PhD, Professor Emerita of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Ireland
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Thursday, May 8, 6 p.m.
Performance: Songs of Ireland and Irish-Americans Catfeather duo
Walsh Gallery
Space is limited and registration is required.
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit
Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. This exhibition will include loans from the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, private collections, and the New York Public Library, as well as never-before-exhibited works from family collections.
Thursday, May 1, 5 p.m.
Opening Lecture: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann
Frauke Kreutler, Curator, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Thursday, May 1, 6-8 p.m.
Reception: Famous & Family:
Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann
Bellarmine Hall, Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall
Friday, May 2, Noon
Gallery Talk: Heike Herrberg and Barbara Loss
Discuss Trude Fleischmann as Family Photographer
Bellarmine Hall, Bellarmine Hall Galleries
Thursday, June 12, 5 p.m.
Lecture: Heimat Photography and the Art of Trude Fleischmann
Elizabeth Cronin, Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography, Wallach Division, The New York Public Library
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com
Thursday, June 12, 5 p.m.
Open VISIONS Forum Espresso:
Jonathan Santlofer, author of The Last Mona Lisa (2021), The Lost Van Gogh: Nazi Looting, Interpol Agents, Art Sleuths on a Mission
Co-sponsored by FUAM and Art History and Visual Culture Program
Dolan School of Business, Event Room
Tickets required via QCA Box Office
Wednesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Open VISIONS Forum Espresso: Medieval Bones to Today’s Inspiring Spires:
The Dedication & Recovery of Notre Dame Cathedral
Michael Davis, PhD (Professor emeritus, Mount Holyoke College)
The Annual Department of History Lectureship, co-sponsored by FUAM and the programs in Catholic Studies and Art History & Visual Culture
Dolan School of Business, Event Room
Tickets required via QCA Box Office
Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.
Samuel and Betty Roberts
Lecture in Jewish Art:
Distilled Beauty: The Art of Tobi Kahn
Tobi Kahn, Artist
Presented by the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and co-sponsored by FUAM and QCA
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com
Informal discussion around one work of art with Curator of Education
Michelle DiMarzo, PhD
Select Thursdays at noon, and streaming on thequicklive.com at 1 p.m.
February 13
John Francis Murphy, Sleepy Hollow, 1885, oil on canvas
March 6
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, "Bright red sun cruelly hot but the wind is of autumn"Bashō, ca. 1966-7, color woodcut
April 10
Unknown French Artist, Diptych: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin, ca. 1350-1400, ivory
With Jackie DeLise
Streaming, select Mondays at 5 p.m.
January 27 | February 24 | March 17 | April 7 | May 12
In-person, Bellarmine Hall Galleries, select Tuesdays at 5 p.m.
January 28 | February 25 | March 18 | April 8 | May 13
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on The Quick Live and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com
Bring your own projects or enjoy tips from educator Elizabeth Vienneau.
Art supplies provided!
Bellarmine Hall Museum Classroom, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 6 | Thursday, March 27
Select Saturdays, 12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m.
(Space is limited; registration required)
February 8: All About Landscape
Presented in conjunction with Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
March 15: Earth-friendly Arts
Presented in conjunction with
To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
April 12: Luck of the Irish
Presented in conjunction with An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
May 10: Gold & Glitter in Vienna
Presented in conjunction with Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann
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