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Founders' Day 2023 - Stories We Tell
Event
Past eventWed., March 1, 2023, 7–8:15 p.m.
Free with reservation
Rothenberg Hall and Livestream
In honor of Founders’ Day 2023, The Huntington and The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West present a mix of serious and quirky stories demonstrating the broad range of The Huntington's collections.
The Huntington and The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West present a mix of serious and quirky stories—inspired by Eve Babitz’s archive, The Huntington’s Montezuma cypress, portraits by Laura Aguilar, the Horatio Nelson Rust collection, and glass plate photographs of 1890s and 1900s Chinatown—demonstrating the broad range of The Huntington’s collections and the rich history of the institution’s location in the San Gabriel Valley.
The Program
The event—with an introduction by Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence and moderated by William Deverell, director of The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West—will feature the following speakers:
Sean Lahmeyer, Plant Collections and Conservation Manager, The Huntington
Silas Munro, Partner, Polymode & Faculty Co-Chair, MFA in Graphic design at Vermont College of Fine Arts
Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literary Collections, The Huntington
Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial and Collections, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, The Huntington
- Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
- Seating in Rothenberg Hall is first-come, first served.
- Overflow seating will be available in the Education and Visitor Center.
- This event will be recorded and available to view after the program.
- Attendees will have the opportunity to submit a question for the speakers during the registration process.
About the Speakers
William Deverell
William Deverell is Director of The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and a professor of History, Spatial Sciences, and Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. An American historian with a focus on the 19th and 20th century American West, he is the 2023 President of the Western History Association. Deverell is also a founding director of the Los Angeles Service Academy, a high school outreach initiative that teaches high school students about the infrastructural networks of Southern California (LAServiceAcademy.org). His current projects include the Chinatown History Project and the West on Fire initiative.
