Working Artists
Wherever Nicole Polletta travels, she brings along her sketchbook. In some ways, it’s her version of a map to prevent getting lost in this world. “We take in so much ...
View ArticleA Korean homecoming
What started out as a museum’s straightforward request to borrow a handful of objects from our collection turned out instead to be a recent event of international significance. The first ...
View ArticleAll in the family
I grew up loving museums and my dad is a museum curator, so it wasn’t a stretch for me to jump from working in theatre to the museum industry when ...
View ArticleCupid’s dagger
My love affair with knives was born in my Italian grandmother’s kitchen, where dinner preparation was always a spectacle. The aromas! The chopping! The laughter! The yelling (always so much ...
View ArticleA meeting of minds…on design
A couple of weeks ago, a cross-departmental team from PEM had the privilege and truly inspiring opportunity to visit the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass. Perkins is ...
View ArticlePurely by chance
On a recent vacation in Napa Valley, en route to our first of many glasses of Cabernet, I stumbled across one of Patrick Dougherty’s super-sized nests out in the wild. ...
View ArticleYoung collector
Gordon Wilkins was just two when he first wandered into a charming little bookstore that would play a big role in his life. When the budding reader and future curator ...
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