Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex
Tuesday, September 12, 6 – 7 pm
Many people collect items or have something precious they have kept with them throughout their lives. Other lives previous to ours have touched these things: those who made, owned, preserved, and passed them along. Each object can be seen as a chain of stories. Leading public historian and O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Fellow Richard Rabinowitz will lead an interactive workshop in exploring your creative side by learning how to use an object as a catalyst for storytelling. In a career spanning 50 years, Rabinowitz, president of American History Workshop, has led creative teams in developing new museums, exhibitions, media presentations, and curricular programs in 34 states and the District of Columbia—over 560 projects in all. Among this number are the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in NYC, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and a series of blockbuster exhibitions on the history of slavery at the New York Historical Society. He has a BA and PhD from Harvard. His most recent book is Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past, published by UNC Press. At the O’Keeffe he is exploring how locating stories in the stuff of everyday life can reshape the practice of museum interpretation. Additional information and tickets ($5, members free) at okeeffemuseum.org.