Troutbeck Symposium: Art Exhibition Opening

The Troutbeck Symposium is the culminating gathering of a year of student historical inquiry across the region. Throughout the school year, students investigate the histories of their own communities — working with archives, museums, oral histories, and primary sources to uncover stories that have been overlooked, forgotten, or never recorded. At the Symposium, that work becomes public. Students travel to Troutbeck to present original films, artworks, research, and storytelling projects before a live audience — contributing new knowledge to the historical record while demonstrating the power of young people as historians. Now in its fifth year, the Symposium has grown into a regional civic ecosystem of learning, connecting schools, educators, archivists, historians, artists, and cultural institutions through place-based research and student-authored public history. Like their celebrated predecessors, students will gather at Troutbeck to reveal truths — sometimes uncomfortable ones — in a significant site in the history of American thought and social movements.

April 22 | 5–7 p.m.
Student Art Exhibition Opening

An exhibition of student artwork rooted in historical research. Student presentations and remarks by:

• Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
• Dr. Christina Proenza-Coles, Lecturer, American Studies Department, University of Virginia
• Wunneanatsu Lamb-Cason, Brown University
• Taha Clayton, Visual Artist