Social Histories
Exhibition Overview
Social histories investigate the unique experiences of individual people rather than considering history from the broad perspectives of politics and civilizations. This fall, the Spencer’s Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI) explores the multifaceted ways we make meanings of past lived experiences, including a Social Histories Series with artist talks and performances October 16–18. Check our website for more details.
This tour threads together relevant works of art throughout the special and collections exhibitions at the Spencer. By reconstructing stories of people from the past through new considerations of historical objects or reshaping assumptions through contemporary artists’ interrogations of the past, this tour illustrates multiple understandings of people’s histories. The tour begins in the Central Court on the third floor (just inside the galleries from the main lobby) and should take approximately one hour, though we invite you to linger with or skip over some works to fit your available time.
