"Can a museum be a catalyst in a community? Can a museum house artists and allow them to be change agents as communities re-think themselves?" Watch as curator Thelma Golden re-imagines the museum as a think tank and explores the capacity of artists to understand and re-write history. While the speaker expresses a particular focus on on Black artists, a primary theme of her presentation is how art can change the way we think about culture and ourselves.

Concepts

museums, the harlem renaissance, harlem

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Additional Tags

black artists, harlem renaissance, museum, social studies

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Pros

• Includes close analysis of a selection of artistic pieces by Black artists
• Briefly touches on the Harlem Renaissance

Cons

• Presentation conveys much general information and questioning, rather than specific subject matter

Common Core

SL.9-10.3 SL.11-12.3