Oct. 29: Colloquium hosts curator of House & Home exhibit
FREDERICK, Md.—A look at the social and cultural history that has shaped the homes and environments in which Americans live is the theme of a presentation Oct. 29 at 3:45 p.m. in the Coblentz Seminar Room at Hood College.
Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D., curator of the House & Home exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., will share highlights of the show that, through artifacts, photos, three-dimensional models and films, illustrates how transformations in technology, government policy and consumer culture have had an impact on American domestic life.
The long-term exhibit, which first opened in 2012, gives visitors the opportunity to see themselves in the American story and to place their own experiences within the greater context of the social and cultural history that has shaped where and how people live.
The final fall colloquium event, a reading Nov. 6 by award-winning poet Jericho Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego, will also focus on the complex notion of home.
The event is part the Colleges annual Center for the Humanities colloquium series, which is funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant.
For more information about the colloquium series, contact Katy Fulfer, Ph.D., NEH Libman Professor of the Humanities, at fulfer@hood.edu.