
The Fellowship of PAFA
Fellowship Virtual Gallery

Fellowship Board:
Barbara Sosson
President and Treasurer
Nina Martino
Vice President
John Formicola
Vice President and
Collection Co-Curator
Rachel Citrino
Vice President and
Collection Co-Curator
Sandra Benhaim
Vice President ​
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Mostafa Darwish
Virtual Gallery Director
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Varvara Fern
Alumni
Pat Nugent
Rosemont College Gallery
Director
Nicole Maye Luga
Alumni
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Fellowship Advisors:
Michael Gallagher
Alumni/ PAFA Faculty
Lisa Tremper Hanover
Museum Consultant
Gaby Heit
Art Consultant/Curator
Heike Rass
Marketing & Art Consultant
Rhoda Rosenberg
Professor of Printmaking,
School of the Museum of Fine
Arts/Tufts, Boston; PAFA Alumni
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Rebecca Segall
Owner/Director of Gross McCleaf Gallery
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is one
of the oldest Alumni art nonprofit organizations in America and staffed
solely by volunteers, which speaks of the impressive loyalty and dedication
of our Board and Advisors.
We are an independent entity, with its sole purpose to benefit all PAFA Alumni.
On Monday evening, April 19, 1897, approximately five hundred
people met in the Pennsylvania Academy lecture room to form an
organization of alumni that would come to be known worldwide as
The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. They
came together at the behest of Edward H. Coates, President of PAFA,
and Harrison S. Morris, Managing Director. The idea had been endorsed
by 32 prominent artists. Robert Vonnoh, a former student and
later Academy instructor, suggested that a notice be sent to several
thousand alumni.
After 127 years the Fellowship is still going strong and is proud to celebrate
this year’s Annual Exhibition at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery from
January 8 through 25, 2025. Also serving as our Juror, Bridgette Mayer
selected all the art work and awards. All works are for sale in the
gallery or by using this link:
https://bridgette-mayer-gallery.myshopify.com/collections/pafa-fellowship-
through-land-sea-and-in-between
This year’s exhibition is composed of 53 works by Academy Alumni in
many mediums and styles. Our Fellowship virtual gallery will have the
works for sal until the end of March. Douglas Martenson and Miriam
Seidel, both Academy alumni, will each be giving a gallery talk on
Saturday, January 18 and Saturday, January 25.
Thank you Bridgette Mayer, for helping our Annual to be one of the
best in our very long history. Also we thank her gallery staff led by
Courtney Clark and Emma Burke. I personally thank our Fellowship
Board of Directors and Advisors who help make our organization a
great support for PAFA Alumni year-round. We all thank, Mostafa
Darwish, our Virtual Gallery Director, board member and alumni for his
work on exhibitions year-round.
We remain,
Artists Helping Artists!
Barbara Sosson
Fellowship President
www.fellowshippafa.org
www.fellowshipgallery.org
Please click the Button above to view the full pdf Annual Fellowship Exhibition 2025 catalog