This dual tour of two Harvard Radcliffe Institute exhibitions—In Their Own Voices: Black Women’s Lives from the Archives and A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture—is an opportunity to view and celebrate materials and artworks by and about Black women.

In Their Own Voices highlights the lifework and legacies of Black women whose papers are held at the Schlesinger Library, while A Female Landscape centers around an artwork by Mildred Thompson on loan from the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Join Holly Smith, Spelman College archivist; Petrina Jackson, Lia Gelin Poorvu Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library; and Chassidy A. Winestock, visiting curator at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, as they discuss the materials and artworks on view in the Lia and William Poorvu Gallery and the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery.

This tour will begin at the Poorvu Gallery in the Schlesinger Library (8 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138). Following the tour of In Their Own Voices: Black Women's Lives from the Archives, we will take a short walk to the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery in Byerly Hall for the second part of our tour, of A Female Landscape and Abstract Gesture.