Name: Women, Art, and the Power of Education
Start: 2026-01-18T14:00:00-05:00
Location: The Kate - Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center

How can teachers change the story of art? Erin L. McCutcheon, PhD* will examine the vital role teachers have played in shaping younger generations of creatives and thinkers. Join us Sunday, January 18 at 2pm for the Museum’s inaugural presentation supported by the Anna Held Audette Modern Ruins Fund.** FREE but please register through the link below.
McCutcheon reflects on the classroom as a historic site of feminist transformation that links generations of women as artists, scholars, and educators. Situating her ongoing work to expand the visibility of women in the arts within broader histories of artistic pedagogy McCutcheon draws inspiration from Anna Held Audette’s life and legacy. She will discuss how teaching can serve as a catalyst for creative agency and social change and consider its critical role in shaping the future of the field.
Please note: This lecture takes place at The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (The Kate), 500 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT
*Erin L. McCutcheon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Arts of the Americas Department of Art and Art History, University of Rhode Island
**The Anna Held Audette Modern Ruins Fund was established by her family in 2024 to honor the artistic focus and teaching of Audette, a prominent precisionist painter of the later 20th century whose work shows that the triumphs of industry are only moments away from obsolescence. The Fund supports lectures, workshops, courses, and special events that explore contemporary thinking about preservation and abandonment in the American industrial landscape, and that honor Audette’s expertise in and teaching of printmaking and painting.
https://flogris.org/calendar/lecture-teaching-as-transformation-women-art-and-the-power-of-education/