Virtual Group Experiences : (Led by founder Professor Andrew Lear ) An important factor in how we all orient ourselves in the world is our sense of history, the history of humanity, of our country, city, family. Yet the histories most of us hear not only as children but through our education and indeed as adults as well is one in which only adult white cisgender men have agency, accomplishments, influence.
Other categories of people – women, people of color, people on the LGBTQ+ spectrum – scarcely appear in history, and they almost never appear playing an important role in any story. And this is the story that we see reflected in high culture: opera, ballet, poetry, theater, and art museums.
This in fact, represents an inaccurate, filtered view of the human story. Women—ambitious, powerful, talented women—people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals were there and had an important role, participating in and leading key moments in the history of our own civilizations and countries. At all levels of culture and power, if you know where to look, they are there in art museums, hidden as it were in plain sight.