Associate Curator at the Autry Museum of the American West, Tyree Boyd-Pates will speak as part of the ArtCenter Dialogues series on "Curating Revolution and History Within Museums"

Boyd-Pates is a Los Angeles-based museum curator, historian, and public speaker whose museum work centers the African American experience in the American West.

Recently, Tyree joined the Autry Museum of the American West as the Associate Curator of Western History. At the Autry, he is spearheading American history exhibitions and historical initiatives that engage communities across the region for archival purposes, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matters protests occurring across the American West.

Boyd-Pates' museum work has received mention in The New York Times, The LA Times, Vogue, NPR, Hollywood Reporter, and recently was selected by multi-Grammy award-winning producer and composer Pharrell Williams to be included in his guest-curated TIME Magazine issue “The New American Revolution” to discuss his views on American history.

Currently, Boyd-Pates is a 2021Civic Media Fellow with the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC and a 2021 Innovation Fellow with the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy.

This Dialogue Series is Part of the Toyota Motor Corporation Endowed Series.

This event is free and open to all.

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