Date & Time
June 17 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Venue
The Michener Museum
Image Credit: Bruce Katsiff (b. 1945), The Sleep of Peace, 2012. Platinum palladium print, 16 x 20 inches. Courtesy of Katsiff Art Trust.
Wednesday, June 17 | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Members: $10 / Non-Members: $22
Pieces of a Life, a retrospective tracing Bruce Katsiff’s six decades of photographic innovation, from the 1970s to today. Join guest curator Dorothy Fisher for an in‑depth tour of the exhibition alongside Katsiff himself. Together, they reveal the stories behind the images and the thoughtful choices that shaped the final selection of works.
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bruce Katsiff: Pieces of Life.
Speakers:
Dorothy Fisher
Dorothy Lewis Fisher is a PhD. Candidate at the University of Delaware and has been the Lynn Herrick Sharp Curatorial Fellow at the Delaware Art Museum since September 2023. She holds a BA in art history from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and an MA in Art History from both the University of Delaware and the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she graduated with distinction. Her research involves the history of arts programs operated in unusual places – like the Space Race era Artist Cooperation Program operated by NASA, the subject of her dissertation.
Bruce Katsiff
Photographer and educator Bruce Katsiff has experimented with a variety of styles, subjects, and media across his six-decade career. He mastered the art of platinum and silver gelatin prints using large format cameras and he also embraces digital photography in his more recent series. Katsiff earned his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA from Pratt Institute. He attended postgraduate studies at Oxford University. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Michener Art Museum. Bruce divides his time between Bucks County and Philadelphia with his wife Jo.
