Online Short Course | Stories Across Time and Place

Join Morgan Library & Museum curators to explore the universal importance of narrative. In this three-session online course, curators will use objects in the Morgan’s expansive collection on view in Come Together: 3000 Years of Stories and Storytelling as a point of departure for a deep dive into the power of stories to entertain, enlighten, console, and transport us.

Session 1: Storytelling in Ancient Western Asia
Discover some of the most enduring stories of ancient Western Asia from the myths of the goddess Inanna to Atrahasis and the Flood, to the earliest hero’s journey of King Gilgamesh. Join Pinar Durgun, Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Associate Curator and Department Head of Ancient Western Asian Seals & Tablets, for a discussion of oral traditions, art, and texts.

Session 2: Storytelling in Master Drawings
Explore select works by artists such as from Raphael, Durer, and Rembrandt that embraced new techniques to enliven their drawings, and in turn the art of storytelling, as never before. Join Sarah Mallory, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings & Prints, for an in-depth look into the ways in which these artists looked to both history and to their own lives to draw modern stories.

Session 3: Storytelling in Print
Delve into a selection of works in the Morgan's collection, from comics to poetry, and consider how the medium and format of an object shapes our interpretation of the story it tells. Join Jesse Erickson, Astor Curator and Department Head of Printed Books & Bindings, to investigate the reader's relationship to narratives in print.

This is an online course. Recordings will be made available for ticket holders via a password-protected link through March 11. Attendees will receive a Zoom link on the day of the programs.

Please e-mail public_programs@themorgan.org with questions about accessibility.