Join Monterey Museum of Art in the galleries for an inspiring afternoon with guest curator Robert W. Edwards as he shares his insights into Mary DeNeale: Doyenne of the Carmel Art Colony.

Advance purchase is required. Seating is limited, so we recommend reserving your tickets early. Purchase tickets.

$5 MMA Members, Students, Military, Under 18, and SNAP Participants with EBT

$20 General Admission. Includes an admission pass to MMA - Pacific Street.

About the Curator

Robert W. Edwards (b. 1949), a Vietnam-era veteran, completed his PhD in archaeology and art history at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1983, he moved to Washington, DC, where he was elected a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University's Center for Byzantine Studies. Two years later, Edwards was appointed an Associate Scholar. He has been a Visiting Professor in the History Department of the Catholic University of America and in the Department of Art at the University of Chicago. Institutions that have funded his research and publications include the J. Paul Getty Trust, British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Catholic University at Louvain, Trustees for Harvard University, and Università di Bologna. He is the author of numerous publications, including the large monographs The Fortifications of Armenian Cilicia (Washington, DC, 1987) and Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies (Oakland, 2012). He was a curator for the exhibition of Pedro de Lemos, Lasting Impressions: Works on Paper at Monterey Museum of Art (2015) and at the Stanford University Art Gallery (2017); Edwards also authored the catalogue for the Pedro de Lemos exhibition.