International Lecture Series

Join us for the 44th season of the Treasure Coast’s most celebrated arts and humanities lecture series. This lecture series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection. The featured speakers will provide audiences with multiple perspectives to help frame the exhibition’s themes.

Patrons are invited to attend the lectures at the VBMA or stream them from the comfort of their homes​.

Monday, February 23, 2026 at 4:30pm
Fred Minnick
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Podcast Host, and Bourbon Critic

Monday, March 9, 2026 at 4:30pm
Conor Knighton
CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent

Monday, March 23, 2026 at 4:30pm
Ashley Rose Young, PhD
Historian and Smithsonian Research Associate

PRESENTING SPONSOR:
Harry and Virginia Van Wormer Lecture Fund 

SUPPORTING SPONSORS:
Kjestine and Peter Bijur
FHL Foundation
Emily and Ned Sherwood
Carolyn and William Stutt Endowment for the International Lecture Series
Caroline and Tommy Vandeventer 

PATRON SPONSORS:
Susan L. Bouma
Kenneth W. Cunningham, Jr. Endowment Fund 

RECEPTION SPONSOR:

Anthony Amore, Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Art Heists: Stealing Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Degas

Andrea Robinson, Master Sommelier
1976 Paris Wine Tasting: How “the Unthinkable Happened”

Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post and author
The Art of Rivalry: How A New, More Intimate Model of Rivalry Gave Birth to Modern Art