Join the Yale Library's Preservation and Conservation Services for an inspired online talk by Dr. Jontyle Robinson, entitled, "Tuskegee University Preservation: Active Pride, People, Places and Possibilities."

Dr. Jontyle Robinson, pioneering art historian/curator, received her doctoral degree in Art History from the University of Maryland and was the first curator for both the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta and Tuskegee University’s Legacy Museum /Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site. Her groundbreaking research on Archibald Motley at the Chicago History Center resulted in New York City’s Kenkeleba Gallery “Three Masters: Archibald Motley, Eldzier Cortor, and Hughie Lee Smith.” In 1991, the Chicago History Center, mounted "The Art of Archibald John Motley, Jr" from her decade-long research which was, also, the foundation for the Whitney Museum's  exhibition “Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist " on view from October 2015-January 2016. She curated/ co-authored for the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art's contribution to the 1996 Olympics, "Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists,” the first exhibition /catalogue of African American women artists touring America. In 2016, Robinson conceptualized  the Alliance of HBCU Museums & Galleries, a coalition of 11 Historically Black College and University Museums and Galleries. She is Founding Director.

This lecture is the capstone event of the Yale Library's celebration of Preservation Week, an annual event to raise public awareness for preserving and conserving cultural and personal heritage. The lecture is an online event, that is open and free to all.