NSA 2025-2026 Lecture Season

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Speaker: Rob Kunzig, Journalist and Author

Lecture: The Rebirth of Notre Dame—and of Her Older Sister

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 (Mabel Brown Lecture)

Speaker: Nora Severson Cafritz, Senior Director of Collections at Glenstone 

Lecture: In the Space Between: Discovering Glenstone’s Living Vision. 

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Speaker: Aimee Ng, Ph.D. John Updike Curator at The Frick Collection Lecture: Reintroducing the Frick's collection at 1 E 70^th Street

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Speaker: Emily A. Beeny, Chief Curator at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Lecture: Manet & Morisot

Wednesday, February 25, 2026      

Speaker: Sarah Eckhardt, Ph.D.

Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Lecture: Reconstructing the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection of German Expressionism at VMFA

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 

Speaker: Jeffrey Andersen, Director Emeritus

Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT

Lecture: A Boardinghouse for Artists: The Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme, CT

Monday May 4, 2026 Annual Meeting, Lecture and Luncheon (Special Speaker Lecture)

Speaker: Meryl Gordon, Bestselling, Author and Journalist

Lecture: The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess