A Talk with Dwandalyn R. Reece

Join us for the Fall 2025 Rey M. Longyear Lecture, featuring Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece, a leading museum curator specializing in American music and performing arts collections. She has over thirty-five years of experience in public humanities work and has served in a range of curatorial and administrative roles, notably holding positions at the Motown Museum, Louis Armstrong House and Archives, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution. In her opening remarks, Dr. Reece will reflect on music’s storytelling capacities and share strategies for effective research, writing, and curation practices that resonate with diverse public audiences. An interview and audience Q&A will follow, focusing on her work as Chair of the Smithsonian Music Executive Committee, a pan-institutional team that is preparing an exhibit on the history of American music through the lens of the Declaration of Independence for America 250.

Free and open to the public; no registration required.