Museums and the Black Lives Matter Movement
The HAA Guest Lecture Series and BUCH’s “Seeing and Not Seeing” Faculty Seminar are honored to invite you to the panel discussion “Museums and the Black Lives Matter Movement” (BLMM), with three curators from the Smithsonian American Museums: Evelyn Carmen Ramos, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM); Aaron Bryant and Ariana A. Curtis from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
The discussion will center on the role that the Smithsonian American Museums play, as state-funded institutions, in combatting the heightened white nationalist rhetoric broadcast and sanctioned by the White House over the past four years; and in sponsoring the Black Lives Matter movement with the current hypervisibility of anti-Black violence via police brutality and the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on BIPOC communities.