November 7 Lecture—Socially Engaged: Public and Private Storytelling

M. Victor Leventritt Lecture

Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier will discuss how storytelling in digital technology can be used to create a powerful platform for social change.

Following her talk, Frazier will be in conversation with Sarah Lewis, assistant professor in the Departments of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University; moderated by Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic from The Boston Globe.

This program is presented in conjunction with Sarah Lewis’s curricular installation Vision and Justice: The Art of Citizenship, on view in the University Teaching Gallery until January 8, 2017.

Monday, November 7, 2016
6–7:30pm

Before the talk, from 5 to 6pm, visitors will have an opportunity to view the Vision and Justice installation on Level 3.

 

Harvard Art Museums
Menschel Hall
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA

Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.

Free and open to the public
 

 

 

Further Reading

We recently spoke with Sarah Lewis to learn more about her University Teaching Gallery installation Vision and Justice: The Art of Citizenship. More

Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.

Image: © 2008–2015 LaToya Ruby Frazier.



 
           
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