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DC (V) - Pushing the Boundaries of the Period Room - Museum Arts SIG


MAS SIG 02Jul22
Join the Museum Arts SIG as we take a look at the New York Museum of Metropolitan Art's bold foray into constructing a Period Room that speaks not only to the past but also speaks to the present and an imagined future.

Museum period rooms attempt to teach us about history using an assemblage of furniture and design objects, fictitiously arranged within a domestic space reflective of the same era. At New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, such spaces typically center aristocratic Europe and the lives of European settlers in the United States. In a refreshing departure from its usual narrative, The Met’s Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room creates its own story, inspired by the often-overlooked history of free 19th-century African Americans living in New York City’s Seneca Village.

This event will be on Zoom.  Link will be sent to registrants two days before the event.

TTN Members who are not members of the Chapter or the SIG are welcome to sample up to three of this SIG's events.  Members can also bring a non-member guest for a nominal fee.


When:
Saturday, July 2, 2022, 12:00 PM until 1:30 PM
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Gretchen Schieber
Category:
Chapter
Registration is required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
$5.00
No Fee
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