PB Art Collection Team

  • Curator

    Dr. Larkin is Professor of Early Modern European Art at Montana State University, Bozeman (2000-present). His books include an edited volume, Politics & Portraits in the United States & France during the Age of Revolution (2019), two monographs, In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s: Stefan Zweig, Irving Thalberg, and Norma Shearer (2019) and What Ever Happened to the U.S. Congress’s State Portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette? (2021), and an exhibition catalog (with Stephen Little), Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies: Treasures from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Daryl S. Paulson Collection (2022). He is currently collaborating with MSU Professor Hua Li on a scholarly conference, Representations of East Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States ca. 1850-1929 (2024), underwritten by the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with LACMA Chief Curator Stephen Little on an exhibition, Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies (2025), supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.

  • Co-Chair

    Dr. Paulson has extensive experience in the fields of management science, research and development, clinical trials, biostatistics and clinical microbiology. Dr. Paulson earned a Ph.D in Asian Art History specializing in pre-1400 AD Indian and Chinese art. Dr. Paulson has also studied Hinyana, Mahayana and Vajgrayanam Buddhism. Of particular interest to Dr. Paulson are Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, Longche Rabjam and Chogyam Trungpa.

  • Co-Chair

    Marsha Brown was cofounder and CFO of Bioscience Laboratories in Bozeman, Montana. The business was sold in 2021. Bioscience Laboratories was a contract testing lab used by the pharmaceutical industry, using microorganisms, viruses and human volunteers Products were tested for the healthcare and consumer product industries. Ms. Brown has long been an arts advocate and continues to be involved in her community. She has a Master of Business Administration from Norwich University in Vermont.

  • Executive Director

    Carol Mealer has long been an arts advocate. She served on the board of Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in California, curated numerous art shows on the east coast, was president of the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, is on the Advisory Council for Montana State University’s School of Art and has taught art history at the college level. Ms. Mealer has her Master of Arts in Art History from Montana State University, Bozeman.