UPCOMING WEBINART: Fine Choices 2026 Featuring 20th-Century Art from South Africa and Zambia
Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 3:00PM ET
This is a virtual event via Zoom hosted by Pucker Gallery.
This event will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Join us Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 3:00PM ET for the Fine Choices 2026 webinART!
Together with:
Jeanne Koles – Publications Director
Mara Williams - Brattleboro Museum Curator Emerita
Caroline Staller - Gallery Associate and Artist
Dr. Carl Herbert - Gallery Associate
Bernie Pucker – Gallery Director
The exhibition Fine Choices 2026: Featuring 20th-Century Art from South Africa and Zambia opens on Saturday, 20 June 2026 and will be on view at Pucker Gallery through 13 September 2026.
Each summer for nearly six decades we have curated a selection of work by each Gallery represented artist to display in the Main Gallery for the entirety of the season. Although we have lost many of these artists over the years, we continue to share their creations. Each of these exhibitions has become an exercise in memory and commitment. We will have an opportunity to hear perspectives from the friends and associates who will gather with us for this conversation.
All the best,
Bernie and Sue
About Our Panelists...
Jeanne Koles is an independent museum professional with over twenty-five years of experience in the cultural sector in writing, design, and project management. She has worked as the Gallery's Publication Manager for over a decade, overseeing exhibition catalogues and full length artist monographs. In addition to her work with Pucker Gallery, she works with many regional institutions, including Boston University Art Galleries, the Copley Society of Art, the Monotype Guild of New England, the Somerville Museum, and Old New Gate. She was previously an Independent Museum Professional representative to the New England Museum Association.
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.
Caroline Staller is a ceramic sculptor and educator whose work captures the peaceful beauty of the everyday. She brings to each piece the joy and freedom found from her upbringing spent exploring the New Mexico desert on horseback. She infuses into her tableaus and carvings a sense of peacefulness and reflection found among the quiet and healing nature of the horse. After completing an MFA in ceramics from the University of Missouri under the mentorship of artists Bede Clarke and Joseph Pintz, she has since gone on to teach at multiple locations including Harvard Ceramics. She loves to encourage students to focus on a close conversation with clay through color, texture, and form. Caroline currently works from her home studio and has been joyfully part of the Pucker Gallery webinARTs for the past four years.
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.