2022 Friends of the Collection-Makeda Best

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Thursday October 20

6:00 PM  –  9:00 PM

Please save the date for the annual Friends of the Collection Benefit featuring Dr. Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Interim Head, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art

6 p.m. to 7 p.m. program in the Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium  

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. dinner with Dr. Makeda Best  

 

Bests’ scholarly interests focus on 19th- and 20th-century American photography, with a special interest in photojournalism, documentary, war photography, and text and image works. Recent exhibitions include Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art (co-curated with Mary Schneider Enriquez; 2019–20); Winslow Homer: Eyewitness (co-curated with Ethan Lasser; 2019); and Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America (2018).

Tickets 

Auditorium program only $45 public/$35 PMA members 

Lecture and Dinner $500  

Host Committee $2,000 (includes access for two to all events that evening) 

Gifts of $5,000+ to Friends of the Collection will be automatically credited as Host Committee members