Queer-to-Queer Networks: Artists and Allies in the 1940s

​Join Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s exhibition assistant Lily F. Scott for a 20-minute pop-up gallery talk about creative networks formed by queer and queer-adjacent artists, including Beauford Delaney, Marsden Hartley, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Carl Van Vechten, in the 1940s.

Schedule:

• Friday, June 13: 5:30–5:50 p.m., 6:30–6:50 p.m., & 7:30–7:50 p.m.
• Saturday, June 21: 2:30–2:50 p.m.
• Saturday, June 28: 2:30–2:50 p.m.

About the speaker:

Dr. Lily F. Scott is an art historian who specializes in queer art and artists from the modern and contemporary eras, defending her dissertation and completing her doctoral degree at Temple University this spring. She was the 2021-2023 Barra Fellow in American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, curating the installation Seeing with Empathy: The Female Gaze in American Modernism. During their fellowship, Lily also founded PMA’s Queer Representation in Art Learning Community, a multi-departmental group dedicated to exploring and publicly sharing the queer narratives threaded throughout the museum’s collection. Lily most recently assisted with our current special exhibition, Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s, which opened in April 2025.