Making the Invisible Visible: A Decade-Long Medical School–Museum Partnership

Consisting of brief presentations and tours, this event celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Making the Invisible Visible: Art, Identity, and Hierarchies of Power, a workshop required of all first-year students at the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) that draws on the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). Bringing together friends and supporters of the program, as well as anyone interested in learning more about it, the evening reviews its history, reaffirms its goal and mission, and highlights the ways the mission will be advanced through the creation of a new Critical Health Humanities concentration at YSM, dedicated to the further development of student museum facilitators.

Featured speakers include Robert Rock, M.D., M.H.S., senior advisor to the YSM Critical Health Humanities concentration; Anna Reisman, M.D., Professor and Director of the YSM Program for Humanities in Medicine; and Cyra Levenson, Ed.M., senior advisor to the YSM Critical Health Humanities concentration, Deputy Director and Gail Engleberg Director of Education and Public Engagement at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and former Curator of Education and Academic Outreach at the YCBA. Welcome by Stephanie Wiles, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Gallery. Following the presentations, attendees have the opportunity to take part in abbreviated versions of Making the Invisible Visible, led by medical-student facilitators.

Generously sponsored by the Gallery’s John Walsh Lecture and Education Fund; the Yale Center for British Art; the Yale School of Medicine Program for Humanities in Medicine; and the Yale School of Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion, Community Engagement, and Equity.