Harwood Museum of Art to host StoryCorps
HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART will host StoryCorps to record the stories of local residents through both in-person and virtual interviews and preserve them in the Library of Congress.
Harwood Museum of Art partners with KUNM and StoryCorps, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving and sharing the stories of people from all backgrounds and beliefs, when StoryCorps comes to Taos from March 16-29 to record interviews, in-person and virtually, as part of its Mobile Tour. Following their stop in Taos, StoryCorps will record in Albuquerque from March 31-April 21.
Now in its 19th year, the StoryCorps Mobile Tour has facilitated thousands of meaningful conversations between people who know and care about one another. Harwood and StoryCorps are committed to creating a safe recording environment and have introduced several measures to the recording process where participants have the option of recording in-person or via StoryCorps’ Virtual Recording Booth, a video-conferencing platform that can be accessed remotely using an internetconnected device.
Participants can learn more about safety precautions for in-person recording at storycorps.org. In a StoryCorps interview, two people record a meaningful conversation with one another about who they are, what they’ve learned in life and how they want to be remembered.
A trained StoryCorps facilitator guides them through the interview process. After each 40-minute recording session, participants receive a digital copy of their interview. With participant permission, a second copy is archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress for future generations to hear.
Founded in 2003 by award-winning documentary producer and MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay, StoryCorps has traveled to every corner of the country to record interviews in the organization’s effort to create a world where we listen
closely to each other and recognize the beauty, grace and poetry in the lives and stories we find all around us.
In Taos, New Mexico StoryCorps will partner Harwood Museum of Art and KUNM. On Tuesday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m., Harwood and StoryCorps will cohost a listening session in the Arthur Bell Auditorium.
This free public event is an opportunity for the Taos community to learn more about StoryCorps and be the first to hear a selection of stories recorded in Taos. Harwood will share a selection of the local interviews and create special
programs around the project. StoryCorps may also share excerpts of these stories with the world through the project’s popular weekly NPR broadcasts, animated shorts, digital platforms and best-selling books.
“Stories are the pathways to sharing who we are and connecting with each other across generational and cultural lines. With the Harwood Centennial starting in June 2023, we are excited to partner with StoryCorps, KUNM, Taos Public Library and several other local organizations to capture and preserve stories from across Taos including
those that illuminate aspects of our 100 years as a cultural institution,” says Gwendolyn Fernandez, curator of education and public programs.
StoryCorps is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.