Ligia Bouton Artist Talk

Name: Ligia Bouton Artist Talk
Start: 2024-07-24T12:00:00-0400
End: 2024-07-24T13:00:00-0400
Location: Phillips Auditorium, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Wed, Jul 24 2024, 12pm - 1pm EDT

Phillips Auditorium, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

cambridge, united states

The Harvard Plate Stacks

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Artist Ligia Bouton will discuss her new art installation, 25 Stars: A Temporary Monument for Henrietta Swan Leavitt, in the MBTA's Kendall/MIT Northbound Subway Station. The artist will give a 45-minute talk about her artistic practice and research into the life and legacy of pioneering female astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

Later that evening, a free reception will be near the installation in Kendall Square.

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The Harvard Plate Stacks is the Harvard College Observatory's Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection and is the most extensive collection of its kind in the world. The collection spans over 550,000 glass plate negatives and spectral images, covering both the northern and southern hemispheres. The Harvard Plate Stacks make up over a century of irreplaceable scientific observations and represent the first full image of the visible Universe. Hundreds of women studied and curated the Harvard Plate Stacks while making discoveries of their own, but their work often went unrecognized. The Harvard Plate Stacks and The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian is dedicated to understanding and undoing the erasure of these women’s contributions while advancing and enabling the creation of new knowledge using the Harvard Plate Stacks Collection.