Conversation | The Barnes Then and Now—On Our Relationship with Lincoln University
Channel: Barnes Foundation
Date: 2022-09-19

The Barnes Then and Now conversation series brings together scholars and cultural leaders to reflect on the state of the Barnes 100 years after our founding. 

This special evening features Brenda Allen, president of Lincoln University, in dialogue with Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President of the Barnes. The conversation will address the historic relationship between the Barnes and Lincoln University. What kind of partnership did Albert C. Barnes hope to establish with Lincoln, the nation’s first degree-granting HBCU, back in the 1940s? Why did that relationship stall, and what is its future? Moderated by Roxanne Patel Shepelavy of the Philadelphia Citizen.

Speakers
Brenda A. Allen is president of Lincoln University. She previously served as chair of the African American studies department at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; associate provost and director of institutional diversity at Brown University, Providence; and provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at Winston Salem State University, North Carolina. She earned her bachelor’s in psychology from Lincoln University and master’s and doctorate degrees from Howard University, Washington, DC.

Thom Collins is Neubauer Family Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation. He is a Philadelphia native with more than 20 years of experience at some of America’s top arts institutions, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami; the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York; the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati; the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy is executive editor and co-executive director of the Philadelphia Citizen. She has been a Philadelphia journalist for more than two decades and currently writes and edits stories about solutions to problems in Philly for the Citizen.

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About The Barnes Foundation:
The mission of the Barnes is to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture.

Our founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, believed that art had the power to improve minds and transform lives. Our diverse educational programs are based on his teachings and one-of-a-kind collections. 

Philadelphia art collector, Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), chartered the Barnes Foundation in 1922 to teach people from all walks of life how to look at art. Over three decades, he collected some of the world’s most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, including works by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. He displayed them alongside African masks, native American jewelry, Greek antiquities, and decorative metalwork.

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