The Shape of Power Conversation with Monument Lab: Hair Stories
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 5:30 – 7pm EDT
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SAAM has partnered with Monument Lab, a nonprofit public art, history, and design studio based in Philadelphia, for an engaging series of guided conversations about The Shape of Power exhibition. In each of the three events, Monument Lab curators Yolanda Wisher and Aubree Penney will focus on specific artworks to illustrate ideas and spark dialogue. This program will unravel the intersections of race, culture, and identity as reflected in the power of hair to shape our perceptions of style, beauty, and resistance. Monument Lab will provide a toolkit for creative ways of looking at art and generating conversation around the exhibition. Space is limited.
Edmonia Lewis, Hagar, 1875, carved marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., 1983.95.178
SAAM has partnered with Monument Lab, a nonprofit public art, history, and design studio based in Philadelphia, for an engaging series of guided conversations about The Shape of Power exhibition. In each of the three events, Monument Lab curators Yolanda Wisher and Aubree Penney will focus on specific artworks to illustrate ideas and spark dialogue. This program will unravel the intersections of race, culture, and identity as reflected in the power of hair to shape our perceptions of style, beauty, and resistance. Monument Lab will provide a toolkit for creative ways of looking at art and generating conversation around the exhibition. Space is limited.
Edmonia Lewis, Hagar, 1875, carved marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., 1983.95.178
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November 8, 2024–September 14, 2025
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