Rotary Joins Rotaract to Celebrate the Birmingham Museum of Art’s 75-Year Legacy

Boettcher and Crossland with RCB President Jeff Stone, Rotarian Tricia Wallwork and Rotaract members

The Rotary Club of Birmingham (RCB) joined the Rotaract Club of Birmingham for a special joint meeting this week with featured speakers Rotarian Graham Boettcher, PhD, Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) R. Hugh Daniel Director, and Maggie Crosland, BMA’s Fariss Gambrill Lynn and Henry Sharpe Lynn Curator of European Art.

Boettcher and Crosland discussed BMA’s legacy and significance as the institution celebrates 75 years of connecting art and community. The pair provided a preview of BMA’s upcoming special exhibition, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850–1950, which includes over 100 masterworks by Paul Cézanne, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and many others highlighting France’s role as the epicenter of modernism during a time of profound social, intellectual, and political change.

Speaker Bios

Graham C. Boettcher, PhD, serves as the R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. He earned his PhD and BA from Yale University and an MA from the University of Washington. His expertise focuses on American fine and decorative arts created before 1945.

Maggie Crosland is the Fariss Gambrill Lynn and Henry Sharpe Lynn Curator of European Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She previously served as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow in Late Medieval European Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, with scholarly specialization in medieval and Renaissance art.