Boshell Lecture Series: Jewelry and Power in the Ancient Americas

Location: Walters’ Graham Auditorium
Limited capacity. Registration required.

Orlando Hernández-Ying, Postdoctoral Curatorial Researcher at the Hispanic Society of America, NY., gives a lecture on the importance of gold and jewelry and power dynamics in what is now considered Central and South America. After the lecture, Ellen Hoobler, William B. Ziff Jr. Associate Curator of the Art of the Americas, moderates a question-and-answer session with Dr. Hernández-Ying.

This program is one of two lectures that are generously funded each year by the Boshell Foundation.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Orlando Hernández Ying has dedicated over 20 years to museum work and college teaching focused  in Art of the Americas. His teaching trajectory includes universities such as NYU, CUNY, Tulane University, and the University of Panama. He has also held several positions in museums such as MoMA, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Historic New Orleans Collection and has worked freelance with the Metropolitan Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art. In his native Panama, Dr. Hernández-Ying held the position of National Coordinator of Museums. Currently he is part of the curatorial team at the Hispanic Society of America in NY as a post-doctoral research fellow sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

To register to attend, please fill out the form below. Please note that this program will be recorded and made available on our YouTube channel.