Student Board Annual Public Lecture: Pao Houa Her in Conversation with Makeda Best

Join Harvard Art Museums Student Board for its annual public lecture, featuring Pao Houa Her in conversation with Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography. Harvard Art Museums Student Board Annual Public Lecture highlights a contemporary BIPOC artist who is creatively addressing issues of national, global and cultural relevance. Pao Houa Her is a Hmong American artist whose practice engages primarily with legacies and potentials of landscape, portraiture and documentary photographic traditions and aesthetics. Her works examine identity, longing and belonging in Hmong diasporic communities. Makeda Best oversees the Harvard Art Museums’ photography collections. Her scholarly interests focus on 19th- and 20th-century American photography, with a special interest in photojournalism, documentary, war photography plus text and image works.

Admission is free, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall. Please enter the museums via the entrance on 480 Broadway. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations, please contact the museums at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.

Support for this program is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.