Phillips’ Mill will present Laura Turner Igoe, chief curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 2, in a Zoom Art Talk with Laura Womack, chair of this year’s Art Show.
The topic will be the Modernist painters’ role in the Phillips’ Mill tradition.
The Phillips’ Mill Art Show has run continuously since 1929 and was started by the Pennsylvania Impressionist painters, who have gained most of the publicity.
However, Igoe points out that, “Phillip’s Mill was an incredibly important social and intellectual hub for Pennsylvania Impressionist painters in the early 20th century, but the Community Association also exhibited and supported Modernist artists, which a quick browse of the list of artists exhibiting in the inaugural 1929 annual exhibition makes clear.”
Since Igoe’s 2019 arrival at the Michener, she has led several exhibits including “Rising Tides: Contemporary Art and The Ecology of Water.” The exhibit was organized to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and featured work by contemporary artists from Bucks County and the greater Philadelphia region that are investigating the effects of global warming.
Igoe specializes in American art and material culture of the 19th century and has worked at the Harvard Art Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Art Talk Moderator Laura Womack hosted her own syndicated show in Virginia before joining WAMU in Washington, D.C., where she also contributed to NPR. Womack became involved in the arts while living in Singapore, where she worked as a docent and developed an interest in textiles. Today, she is a weaver as well as chair of the Phillips’ Mill Art Show Committee.
To join the Art Talk, which is free, register at phillipsmill.org. A link will then be emailed to you.
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