-Nineteenth Century Arts in Portland presented by Jessica Skwire Routhier

-Portland Architecture presented by Julie Larry

Speaker Bios:

Jessica Skwire Routhier (Independent Museum Professional) is an art historian, writer, and editor who has been writing and lecturing on the arts in Maine for more than 20 years.  She has worked in the curatorial departments of both the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Portland Museum of Art, where she organized exhibitions and authored publications focusing on 19th century art in Maine, including such topics as the art and history of Great Diamond Island and Maine artists Charles Codman, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, Charles Frederick Kimball, and Harrison Bird Brown. From 2008 to 2012 she served as Director of the Saco Museum where she led a major project to preserve and reinterpret the Moving Panorama of Pilgrim’s Progress, an 800 foot long painting from the 1850s. Her book about the Panorama was published by University Press of New England in 2015.  Currently Jessica serves as the managing editor for Panorama, the journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, and she is a regular contributor to Antiques and Arts Weekly, a publication of the Newtown Bee.  A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Jessica holds a master’s degree in art history and museum studies from Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College.

Julie Larry, Senior Architectural Historian at Black Diamond Consultants

Julie Larry has worked for more than thirty years on the preservation and rehabilitation of historic buildings and preservation planning projects throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Formerly a principal at ttl-architects in Portland, Maine, Julie served for six years as the Director of Advocacy at Greater Portland Landmarks. At Black Diamond Consultants she works with municipal and private clients to document and conserve the architectural, cultural, and economic history of the region.  She currently serves on the Biddeford Historic Preservation Commission and Greater Portland Landmarks’ Advocacy Committee. She holds M. Arch. and B. Arch. degrees from the Tulane University School of Architecture.