When Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum, was applying for graduate school, she told her professors at Bucknell University that she wanted to study “the art of the fantastic.”
“I have gravitated, as a result, to art that is more emotional and psychological in its orientation, as well as the unusual and the eccentric and the unexpected,” she says.
She has brought that sensibility, and much more, to her role as PEM’s first female director in the museum’s more than 220-year history. Now, she’s leading
