The School of Art + Art History + Design of the University of Washington selected Tanya Sheehan, the Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art, as the 2025 Kollar Lecturer in American Art. Sheehan’s lecture, titled “Public Art, Public Health: Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital,” took place Feb. 27, 2025, on the UW Seattle campus. This talk explored the significant connections between the federally funded murals painted in Harlem Hospital in the late 1930s and the images of health and medicine in Harlem created by artist Jacob Lawrence. It considered how and why a commitment to the publicness of Black care took shape more fully in Lawrence’s private images than on the walls of the municipal hospital.