Morris Gallery photographs

Title: Morris Gallery photographs
Description: The Morris Gallery (named for Harrison S. Morris, the turn-of-the-century secretary/managing director) was created in 1978 as a venue for small exhibitions of Philadelphia-connected contemporary artists. Its location is a gallery (formerly a school studio) on the ground floor of the Furness-Hewitt building. After a series of part-time curators, the Academy hired a full-time head for the Morris Gallery program and for other contemporary exhibitions. Judith E. Stein held this position from 1983 until 1994. She was advised by the Morris Gallery Committee, consisting of board members, local artists, and Academy staff. In 1994 the gallery space was converted to a video and orientation theater, and Morris Gallery exhibitions were held in the main galleries for two years. The program resumed its exhibitions in the ground floor location in 1998. Subsequent Morris Gallery or Contemporary Art curators have widened the scope of this program and the Morris Gallery Committee has been discontinued.