Join us this coming Wednesday, May 31 at 6:30pm for the final walkthrough of "Exploratory Works" with historian and anthropologist Katherine McLeod.
Tickets ($5) via link in bio.
This walkthrough aims to give political and economic context to the drawings, films, and writing made by the Department of Tropical Research. Using the DTR drawings on display as focal points, we will discuss the systems of labor, natural resource extraction and distribution, politics and economies operating in and around Department of Tropical Research stations that played a role in how these scientists and artists chose to represent, in writing and illustrations, the regions they studied.
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Image: Research assistant and historian Ruth Rose and artist Isabel Cooper outside tents at Kartabo, British Guiana, 1922. Silver gelatin print, courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives.