Public art serves many purposes and brings art into the public sphere so that everyone can enjoy it outside of the walls of a museum or gallery setting. Historically public art has served to honor individuals and events, with artists more recently creating both realistic and abstract sculptures to broaden the scope and push the envelope. Join us for a talk with Carol Ward,  Executive Director of the Lexington Historical Society, where she will discuss some examples of how this public art is commissioned and created. She will also focus on how public art can create a dialog with historic spaces, and bring in new, engaged audiences to museums.

Carol Ward is the Executive Director of the Lexington Historical Society. Ms. Ward has 20 years of collaborative leadership in for profit and non-profit management, financial oversight, fundraising, strategic planning, Board relationships and grant-winning cultural program development. She is an art historian with her BA from Mary Washington College, and two Masters Degrees, her first in Museum Education from the College of New Rochelle, and her second in Art History from Hunter College. She has presented the keynote address at CLHO (Connecticut League of Historic Organizations) on connecting an historic site to the community, the annual NYCMER (New York City Museum Educators Roundtable) conferences on bringing contemporary art into an historic house museum, at Mary Washington College about the future of careers in art history and the museum field and the New-York Historical Society on Alexander Hamilton (the man and the musical). Articles she has written have been published in The Magazine Antiques, The Historic House Trust journal, the American Alliance of Museums Magazine, Antiques Weekly and catalogs for the Bruce Museum, Morris-Jumel Mansion and Keno Auctions. Her book "Visions of America: The Morris-Jumel Mansion" was published in 2015 and she has recently appeared in the documentary on the making of the hit musical "Hamilton."

This program is in partnership with LexSeeHer and the Lexington Historical Society.

Registration is required for this virtual program.