LECTURE ARCHIVE

Including more than 650 lectures from 1952 to the present by visual artists, poets, architects, philosophers, journalists, curators, historians, and choreographers, the Lecture Archive comprises recorded talks delivered by artists and visiting faculty to artists-in-residence during the School's intensive annual summer program in rural Maine.

The Lecture Archive is a unique resource that reflects the scope and depth of post-war American art. Individually, these candid, informal talks offer insight into the careers and creative processes of some of the most pioneering artists of our time, and collectively, they form a continuous dialogue on art over the last seven decades.

The Lecture Archive is available to Skowhegan alumni and faculty as well as researchers. If you wish to access the Lecture Archive, please click below.

Note: You will be directed away fromSkowhegan’s website to a Google form.

Skowhegan's digitized Lecture Archive is also available to researchers at the following:

  • The Archives of American Art

  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • The Art Institute of Chicago

  • The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute

  • Colby College Museum of Art

  • The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University

  • The Getty Center

  • The Museum of Modern Art

  • The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

  • Tate Library

  • Yale University

All material and content from Skowhegan’s Lecture Archive may not be used or reproduced without permission from Skowhegan.

JSTOR Alumni & Faculty Beta Test

Skowhegan is thrilled to welcome alumni and faculty to listen to the complete Lecture Archive online.

As a part of an ongoing effort, Skowhegan is digitizing the collection and making the lectures available online. Whether you listened to the lectures on reels-to-reels, cassettes, CDs or an iPod, or did not have the opportunity to listen on campus at all, we want to ensure the collection’s digital format remains a source of inspiration and information as you develop new connections with this unique material.

Making the lecture archive accessible to the Skowhegan community was our primary goal when undergoing this project. However, we are still beta testing the online archives. Your help at this stage is vital to ensure that this online collection is functional and comprehensive for outside researchers and future Skowhegan alum. The online archive features lectures from artists who have given explicit permission to host their talks in this format. If a lecture is missing, it is because they denied online hosting, or because we have yet to obtain an affirmative response. 

The Skowhegan Lecture Archive is still a closed collection; you may not share access with anyone.

Copyright of each lecture belongs to the lecturing artist or estate, so you may not reproduce or cite anything contained in the archive without first contacting Skowhegan.

JSTOR Registration Process

Click below and fill out the Google Form to begin the JSTOR registration process through Skowhegan

You will receive an email from support@jstor.org with your password and access instructions.

Account creation is done manually, so please allow for some delay. Be sure to check for emails from JSTOR!

Encountering problems?

Please don’t be shy about reporting them! The faster we’re made aware of the issue, the faster we can fix it. This will make yours, and everyone’s, experience better. Send any issues to:

Lynn Perry
Archives & Program Assistant
lperry@skowheganart.org