Saturday, May 11, 2013, 12:00PM and 2:00PM
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Please RSVP at curatorwalkthrough.eventbrite.com
This is a timed entry event. Reservations required.
Join CHS guest curator Jon Christensen on a guided tour through the new CHS exhibition, Curating the Bay: Crowdsourcing a New Environmental History. Curating the Bay is a cultural and environmental history of the Bay, which includes over 200 objects, works of art and photographs from their collections, as well as the new crowdsourcing tool Historypin. Historypin allows visitors, either in person or online to contribute their own photos to CHS’ ever-evolving history of the Bay.
Jon Christensen, is the second CHS Curating California scholar-in-residence and adjunct assistant professor and Pritzker fellow at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.