Background: Sometimes we dont know what we're looking at when we go to a museum. Hear from collection curators, Ted Talk's, the artist themselves, friends, family, the community, and Master's degree Art students and peer deeper with art-related audio. Enjoy!
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The practice of passing on knowledge through oral history can be traced back to the centuries-old griot traditions in West African cultures.
While early African societies kept meticulous records, including the treasured Timbuktu manuscripts in Mali, Africa, oral history was also considered an essential resource for preserving history, time, space and art.
Listen to artists, the community, graduate-degree students in the Arts, curators, and others speak about
HabitualBeās and our partner museum's collections and the art each of them hold.