Public Conversation: The Charles "Teenie" Harris Retrospective at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
November 14, 2009
5:30 pm
In the second of the Curator Roundtables, a group of curators, archivists, educators, and scholars, convened by Louise Lippincott (chief curator and manager for the project, Carnegie Museum of Art) and Natasha Becker (Mellon Assistant Director, Research and Academic Program at the Clark) will focus on the 2010 Charles "Teenie" Harris retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Harris's 40-year career with the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the largest and most influential black newspapers in the country, began at the end of the Depression and ended with the civil rights movement. His archive represents the largest single collection of photographic images of any black community in the world. Some of the questions that will be proposed include: How will the museum interpret Harris’s images? How should/could the exhibition, which is set in the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, take changing attitudes about the past and the future into account? What is the local and national significance of the exhibition? The public conversation will be a forum for participants to share with the public the ideas raised in the roundtable as well as to engage in further questions and discussions. Refreshments will be served. The Mellon Curator Roundtables are generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
