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Concealed to Revealed: Confronting Racist Imagery in Museum Collections

About the event:

On November 12th at 6:30 pm, please join us for Concealed to Revealed: Confronting Racist Imagery in Museum Collections in the Murray Room in Lauinger Library.
This lively panel discussion featuring scholars and museum professionals will address racist imagery in the collections of Georgetown University and Tudor Place Historic House & Garden.
Artwork has played a role in constructing racism for centuries. Objects with racist imagery can range from white supremacist iconography to anti-Black caricatures.
Museums can use this imagery to address historical injustices and foster dialogues about race, representation and prejudice, both past and present.
This program is co-produced by Tudor Place & the Georgetown University Art and Museum Studies Masters Program.

Moderator:

Melanie A. Adams, Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth Director of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. She has more than 25 years of community engagement experience in museums and higher education.

Panelists:

LaNitra M. Berger, Associate Professor of History & Art History, and Director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University. As an art historian, her research focuses on the intersections of art and social activism in the Black and Jewish diasporas.
Ianna Recco, Curator and Art Historian specializing in art history of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism of the 18th century.
Shana Klein, Associate Professor of Art History at Kent State University. She is the author of The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion.

Location:

This program will be held LIVE at the Georgetown University Lauinger Library in The Murray Room, 5th Floor. The Lauinger Library is located on the southeast corner of the main Georgetown Campus, at 37th and O Streets, N.W. All persons entering Lauinger Library must show either a GOCard (if GU- affiliated) or government-issued photographic ID. Non-GU-affiliated visitors must sign in at the
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by Wednesday, November 6th to Em Aufuldish at art-arthistory@georgetown.edu. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after 11/6.