WPI HUA Professor Lucy Caplan will host the opening at Gordon Library of her exhibit on the life and work of Maud Cuney-Hare (1874-1936), an African-American scholar, writer, composer and activist with deep roots in the Boston area.
Caplan's exhibit, a collaboration with Dr. Katie Callam (Harvard University), has previously been shown at several other Boston-area venues and will remain on view at the Gordon Library through the spring.
About Maud Cuney-Hare: "Cuney Hare studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and became an accomplished pianist. She lived in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, most of her adult life. A musicologist, she collected music from across the South and Caribbean in her study of folklore, and was the first to study Creole music. Her final work, Negro Musicians and Their Music (1936), documents the development of African-American music." (Wikipedia)
Part of the 2024-2025 Authors Unbound series at WPI.