AUSTIN (KXAN) — The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center has been in existence since 1926, and it is an Austin institution that honors Black History year-round.
The museum’s director, Carre Adams, spoke with KXAN’s Jennifer Sanders about the museum’s history and its impact during Black History Month.
Read an edited transcription of the conversation below or use the video player above to watch.
SANDERS: Let’s first talk about the theme for 2024, which is African Americans and the Arts. How are you tailoring your programming around that theme?
ADAMS: Well, I mean, we are a Black Arts institution, and history is one of our focuses as well, so everything that we do is really imbued with that. But for us, I feel like African Americans in the Arts is really about acknowledging all of the magnificent contributions that folklorists, filmmakers, journalists, and musicians have made to US culture. Black folks have always been global tastemakers, right? And so, for us, we want people to really understand that art is life, and artists are responsible for so many of the things that we use every day. They help us solve problems. They reflect on our history. They are really making a contemporary archive. And so, we’re trying to, I think, share that with folks that come to the museum.