WHO IS PAT JOLLY?

Pat Jolly remembers taking her three children to the art museum armed with empty toilet paper rolls. The four of them would stand before the paintings, peering through cardboard lenses at small-framed pieces of color and textured inches of detail. Somehow, she says, squinting through those four-inch rolls of paper always made for the best view. It got them closer to the art. Deeper.

More than 20 years later and things haven’t changed much. For 54-year-...