Following inspiring opening remarks, our panelists talk about how our museums, monuments, and public art can reflect our vision of what a more inclusive society should look like.

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Opening remarks: Dr. Andrew Clark, Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University. He teaches courses on Music and Disability Studies and serves on Music Department’s diversity and curriculum committees.

Moderator: Tim McCarthy, Lecturer of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS)and the host and director of A.R.T. of Human Rights.

 

Daniel Byers is the Director of Carpenter Center of Visual Arts at Harvard. He previously worked as a Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and as a Modern and Contemporary Art Curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

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Karin Goodfellow is the Director of the Boston Public Art Commission at City of Boston. She is responsible for all of Boston’s public art initiatives and policies along with their artist in residence program. She previously worked at the Fuller Craft Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts.

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Vera Ingrid Grant is the Director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center of Harvard. She was previously executive director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard.

 

Claude Grunitzky is the founder of TRACE Magazine, and co-founder/chairman of TRUE. He is a 2017 SICI Visiting Social Innovator and Hauser Visiting Leader at Harvard Kennedy School.

 

Dr. David Odo is the Director of Student Programs and Research Curator of University Collections Initiatives at the Harvard Art Museums. He is a visual and material anthropologist, with primary research and teaching interests in the anthropology of art, especially early Japanese photography.

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