Preserving History In Real Time
Chautauqua Lecture Series • 1h 6m
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, July 17, 2020.
Aaron Bryant on bringing out the humanity of objects and the rapid response collection of current events.
“History happens right before our eyes.”
Aaron Bryant is a museum curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.Prior to the Smithsonian, he was curator of collections and exhibitions at Morgan State University’s James E. Lewis Museum of Art in Baltimore.
He has lectured at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Duke, the Metropolitan Museum, the University of Cambridge, Oxford, and the British Museum.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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