LEWISTON — The Bates College Museum of Art will conclude its summer exhibitions with a series of talks and is preparing a new display of images by a seminal Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth and Andrea Sulzer will discuss their work in the exhibition “Emerging Dis/Order” at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

A reception celebrating “Emerging Dis/Order,” which closes the next day, and the new “Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Fotografias de Mexico (1933-1976)” exhibition, will take place after the panel discussion in the art museum, located in Olin.

“Alvarez Bravo is recognized as one of the foremost figures in the history of photography and one of the great Mexican artists of the 20th century,” Museum Director Dan Mills said.

A talk two weeks later will offer insights into the exhibition “Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth,” which includes portraits of family and neighbors now known as models for Andrew Wyeth.

A droll and energetic speaker, Victoria Wyeth, a member of the Bates class of 2001, will discuss the lives and work of Jamie and Andrew Wyeth, her uncle and grandfather. Her talk will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The exhibit will come down on Oct. 2.

Wyeth will also give gallery talks about the exhibition at 10 and 11 a.m. and at 1 and 2 p.m. the following day. In addition, she will give gallery tours by appointment between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sept. 26-28 and between 9 a.m. and noon on Sept. 29. To schedule, call 786-8302.

A third summer exhibition, “Selected Drawings and Photographs from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection,” is scheduled to close on Monday, Sept. 5. This is the museum’s valuable holding of art by and documents about Hartley, an important Modernist artist and a Lewiston native.

The Alvarez Bravo exhibition, on loan from the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, will run through Oct. 29.

Born in Mexico City, Alvarez Bravo taught himself photography while in his teens. “He was part of a cultural renaissance that followed the decade of the Mexican revolution,” which started in 1910, Mills said.

During that renaissance, Mexico became a destination for intellectuals from around the world, Mills said, and Alvarez Bravo was actively involved with many well-known artists, such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and American photographers Edward Weston and Paul Strand.

“Fotografias de Mexico” features 15 images from the 1930s into the ’70s that captured intimate moments, the everyday and the mysterious, rural and urban scenes, and life and death during a time of profound transformation.

“Emerging Dis/Order” is a compilation of abstract drawings addressing issues of memory and loss, order and chaos, and emerging and converging human behavior. The exhibition is part of “Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project,” a collaborative yearlong initiative that has incorporated artists and exhibitions statewide.

The exhibitions and talks are free. For more information, call 786-6158.

This gelatin silver print, titled “Margarita de Bonompak,” is among the images taken by Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo on display at the Bates College Museum of Art.

This untitled work done by Andrea Sulzer this year is among those showing in Bates College’s “Emerging Dis/Order” exhibit. Sulzer and two fellow exhibiting artists will discuss their pieces at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the Olin Arts Center.