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Discover how a pilot, an orator, and a community worker can help us understand the qualities of a great leader.
Heighten your civic awareness through conversations about art, history, and material culture. Each month, educators from the National Portrait Gallery will partner with colleagues from across and outside of the Smithsonian to discuss how historical objects from their respective collections speak to today’s social justice issues.
What does a leader do? Together with educators from the National Air and Space Museum and the National Women's History Museum, we will explore this key question in relationship to portraits of activists Sojourner Truth and Sylvia Rivera, and pilot Bessie Coleman.
Discover how a pilot, an orator, and a community worker can help us understand the qualities of a great leader.
Heighten your civic awareness through conversations about art, history, and material culture. Each month, educators from the National Portrait Gallery will partner with colleagues from across and outside of the Smithsonian to discuss how historical objects from their respective collections speak to today’s social justice issues.
What does a leader do? Together with educators from the National Air and Space Museum and the National Women's History Museum, we will explore this key question in relationship to portraits of activists Sojourner Truth and Sylvia Rivera, and pilot Bessie Coleman.
