Talks provide Bowers visitors with access to respected speakers and experts from around the world; each offering a special perspective on the collections, exhibitions and themes housed and explored by the Bowers Museum through the varied lenses of archaeology, anthropology, education, social sciences and the arts. This is your time to ponder, your place to learn and your space to share with your community.

SOLD OUT - Couture & Champagne Tour with Carmela Spinelli

March 23, 2023 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Join SCAD’s fashion historian and Bowers’ Lynda Thomas Distinguished Lecturer, Carmela...

Lynda Thomas Distinguished Lecture Series | Guo Pei’s Language of Ornament with Dr. Ellen Huang

March 26, 2023 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

PURCHASE TICKETS In this image-based lecture, art and design historian and Lynda Thomas Distinguished Lecturer...

Lynda Thomas Distinguished Lecture Series | Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore with Terry Newman

April 2, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

PURCHASE TICKETS With anecdotes about legendary authors’ work and wardrobe, clothes-related excerpts, archival...

Slow Art Tours

April 15, 2023 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Join our highly trained docents for special Slow-Art Day tours of 2-3 works where closer looking and meditative...

ARCE: The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island with Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper

April 15, 2023 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

PURCHASE ONSITE TICKETS Presented by Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper (Collection Keeper, Egyptian Museum and Papyrus...

Lecture & Book Signing | People’s Intuitive Reactions to Famous Art with Dan Hill

April 16, 2023 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

PURCHASE ONSITE TICKETS Hear fascinating results from the largest study ever done involving eye tracking and art in...