Art historian Patricia Johnston will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture at 5:30 p.m. March 28 in Richards Hall’s Room. 15. The talk is free and open to the public.

Johnston studies how early American arts were influence by global trade, especially trade with Asia. In 2016-17, she was the Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Johnston has held prior research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently writing a book Art and Global Knowledge in Early America.

The last lecture in the lecture series is 5:30 p.m. April 5 and will feature Robert Storr, an artist, critic and curator. He was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the Yale University School of Art in 2006 and was named the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean in 2014. The talk will be in Richards Hall, Room 15.