Join us Monday, 15 December 2025 at 10:00AM ET for a conversation with Pucker Gallery artist Marguerite Robichaux.
This conversation will be dedicated to her recent work and her deeply personal connection to Nature and her favorite places.
Together with:
Marguerite Robichaux – Pucker Gallery Artist
Elizabeth Peavey - Writer, Speaker, and Educator
Mara Williams - Brattleboro Museum Curator Emerita
Dr. Carl Herbert - Gallery Associate
Bernard Pucker – Gallery Director
The exhibition Grand Old Tree will be on view at Pucker Gallery through 25 January 2026.
About the Panelists:
Marguerite Robichaux lives in the woods of Maine where her studio lies in the shadow of the Bigelow Mountain Range—one of her favorite subjects. When she travels it is with a set of watercolors, a sketch pad, and a camera, and she spends part of each year painting in a small studio in southern Louisiana where she grew up. She received her M.F.A. from Louisiana State University and first came to Maine as a student, eventually settling in the western mountains. Her work is included in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Museum, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Colby and Bates Colleges, and many private and corporate collections.
Elizabeth Peavey is a celebrated Maine writer, speaker, and educator. More to the point, she is also Marguerite Robichaux’s longtime friend and collaborator. Their 2011 book, Glorious Slow Going: Maine Stories of Art, Adventure and Friendship, was a Maine Literary Award finalist and put the glam in glamping before the rest of the world caught on. Peavey is the author of three books and countless print columns and essays; most recently she was featured in Breaking Bread, Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family (Beacon Press). Her one-woman show, My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother, ran for six years and received the Maine Literary Award for Best Drama. For over 30 years, Peavey has taught public speaking and personal narrative to students ranging from MFA candidates to middle-school boys and from CEOs to recent immigrants. She currently provides story training to organizations, individuals, and institutions.
Mara Williams assumed Emerita status in 2021, after curating exhibits at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for thirty-three years. Her area of expertise is modern and contemporary art. Recent solo exhibitions include: Gathering Light: The Art of Stephen Hannock; Wolf Kahn— Landscape of Light; Secrets by Gloria Garfinkel; Andy Warhol—Selections from the Jon Gould Collection. Group shows have included the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Janet Fish, Mary Frank, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Maya Lin, James McGarrell, David Nash, Robert Rauschenberg, Ursula von Ridingsvard, Michael Singer, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Barbara Zucker, as well as a host of regional and emerging talent.
Dr. Carl Herbert is a fourth-generation physician whose career has been devoted to helping infertility patients overcome a wide spectrum of obstacles to create their families. Early in his career he participated in the founding of one of the first eIVF centers in the United States. For more than forty years, Dr. Herbert has contributed to the growth and development of assisted reproductive technologies, continually implementing the evolving techniques and optimizing their clinical applications for care. The ambiguity of a socially awkward accolade, “You got me pregnant!”, has become a recurrent reward, both humorous and joyful. By serendipity, Dr. Herbert walked into Pucker Gallery for the first time in 1985 when visiting Boston for a medical conference. From this point on, his nascent interest in art grew under the generous tutelage and encouragement of Mr. Pucker. A close personal friendship evolved as they visited artists and exhibitions around the world; exchanged thoughts on the experience and intrinsic value that art, in all its many forms, can provide individuals and society; and shared writings which illuminated these principles.
Bernie Pucker is the director of Pucker Gallery, which he founded with his wife, Sue, on Boston's historic Newbury Street in 1967. Pucker Gallery represents over fifty artists from around the world, presenting approximately ten exhibitions annually, often paired with artist talks, virtual “WebinARTs,” and Gallery receptions. Bernie is currently a Board Member at the Japan Society, Boston, and the Jewish Publication Society. He also serves on the Leadership Council for Facing History and Ourselves as well as the Artistic Advisory Board for the Terezin Music Foundation. Previously, he has served as President of Solomon Schechter Day School, President of the Newbury Street League, and Board Member for the Friends of Copley Square and The Unity Project, among others. Bernie received his MA in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University and his BA in History and English Literature from Columbia College.