The Visual Culture of Activism in Beacon Hill through the Harriet Hayden Albums
| Hours: | 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
| Ages: | Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Lectures/Discussions |
On Thursday, June 10, 2021, the Nichols House Museum presents the first program in our summer lunch-time series. Take a break and explore Boston History outside the predominant historical lens.Harriet Bell Hayden (1816-1893) was a survivor of slavery and an anti-slavery activist living on
Beacon Hill. Her set of nineteenth-century photo albums are clues to her direct involvement in
the abolitionist movement and the societal status that yielded.
Join Theo Tyson, Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture at the Boston Athenaeum as she shares her insights and inquiries on the albums.
Using fashion and visual culture, Tyson will discuss ways of seeing that offer a glimpse into the lived experiences and connections of Mrs. Hayden’s multicultural and intergenerational Beacon Hill community.
Theo Tyson is a curator who invites conversations about the sociocultural implications of race,
gender, identity, and sexuality through a lens of fashion and culture.
She creates spaces of reclamation to share powerful stories of Black womxn and those on the LGBTQI+ spectrum. Her curatorial practice privileges noncanonical ways of seeing, giving audiences poignant new perspectives to view their human connection to the materiality of expression.
Currently, she is the Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture at the Boston
Athenæum. Her previous posts include Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and SCAD FASH
Museum of Fashion + Film.
This program will take place virtually via Zoom. Tickets are based on a sliding scale of $7-15.
About the Museum
The Nichols House Museum is located at 55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, MA 02108. Visit
www.nicholshousemuseum.org for further information.
The Nichols House Museum preserves and interprets the 1804 Federal townhouse that was
home to landscape gardener, suffragist and pacifist Rose Standish Nichols and her family.
Their home and its original art and furnishings provide a glimpse into life on historic Beacon Hill from
the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
The museum educates and inspires the public through innovative programs, and it continues the conversation on the social concerns the Nichols family embraced that are still relevant today.
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