Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown are proud to host the Talking History Lecture Series, which offers free public lectures that link storylines found in the museums’ exhibition galleries and share how these vast moments in America’s past influenced its progression to the present.

Lauren Muney of "Silhouettes By Hand" is one of only 20 artists in the world working in the traditional trade of cutting silhouette portraits with only scissors, without drawing in advance or even tracing any shadow. She will give a 45-minute talk about the history of this cheaper form of portraiture used before photography, itinerant artists who traveled the countryside and cities, and of the interesting reasons why silhouettes became popular and stayed popular from the 18th into the 21st centuries.

This presentation is scheduled to for presentation at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

Advance online registration is recommended to attend each live presentation at our museums. Recorded videos will be made available to view online following each program – based on prior approval from individual guest lecturers.

For more details on the “Talking History” lecture:
https://www.jyfmuseums.org/events/programs-activities/lectures