The Bates College Museum of Art will host a gallery talk by Robert Flynn Johnson, guest curator of the museum’s current exhibition, “DeWitt Hardy: Master of Watercolor,” on Friday, September 6 at 5 p.m. 

After a long and distinguished career as curator of prints at the Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Johnson remains active as a curator and author. The address he will deliver at Bates is called “A Journey, Not a Destination: The Triumphs and Frustrations of Four Decades as a Museum Curator.” 

The program is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at 6:30 p.m. The museum is located at 75 Russell Street in Lewiston. For more information, call 786-6158 or email museum@bates.edu.