Fenimore Art Museum Announces 2025 Food For Thought Lunch and Lecture Series Schedule
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Every year, engaging, knowledgeable speakers and new works of art draw visitors to Fenimore Art Museum’s popular lecture series Food For Thought. The programs provide an excellent opportunity to explore the season’s new exhibitions and share a delicious lunch with like-minded people. Included this season are programs highlighting the summer exhibitions Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism and The Power of Photography: 19th-20th Century Original Master Prints. Programs begin Wednesday, April 23.
Tickets: $25 member / $30 non-members. Pre-registration is required, please reserve tickets online at FenimoreArt.org. If you have any specific dietary restrictions, please contact k.gray@fenimoreart.org when registering. Vegetarian options will be provided. For more information, please call (607) 547-1510 or visit our online calendar at FenimoreArt.org for full details on each program.
2025 Food For Thought Schedule:
Behind the Scenes
Wednesday, April 23 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
Boundless Spirit: American Folk Art at Fenimore Art Museum
Wednesday, May 14 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism
Wednesday, June 4 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
American Masterworks
Wednesday, June 25 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
The Power of Photography: 19th-20th Century Original Master Prints
Wednesday, July 9 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism
Wednesday, August 6 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
The Power of Photography: 19th-20th Century Original Master Prints
Wednesday, August 27 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes
Wednesday, September 24 • 12:30 PM
$25 member / $30 non-members
For more information on these and other programs, please visit FenimoreArt.org.
About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.
