This is the second program in the Fragile Beauty: Art of the Ocean exhibition lecture series. 

Join National Geographic Explorer in Residence Tara Roberts for this evening as part of the Fragile Beauty: Art of the Ocean series! 

Tara Roberts shares her experiences telling the stories of Black scuba divers searching and documenting slave shipwrecks, and explores the connections between these stories and themes in the Fragile Beauty exhibition. 

There will be time for a Q&A session at the end of the lecture.

Images are courtesy of Tara Roberts and National Geographic.

HYBRID PROGRAM 

This lecture will be presented in the theater in the Ellen MacNeille Charles Visitor Center and will be livestreamed via Zoom. Visitors can submit questions for the speaker from any location. 

IN-PERSON TIMELINE

5:30–6:30 p.m. | Explore Hillwood 

• Enjoy Hillwood’s mansion, gardens, and greenhouse, and exhibition, Fragile Beauty: Art of the Ocean, on view in the Adirondack building
• Find the perfect memento from your visit at the museum shop 

6:30–7:30 p.m. | Lecture in Ellen MacNeille Charles Visitor Center Theater.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Tara Roberts is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. She has spent the last few years diving with and telling stories about Black scuba divers as they searched for and helped document slave shipwrecks around the world. Her journey was turned into a National Geographic-produced podcast called “Into the Depths” and featured in the March 2022 issue of National Geographic. Tara became the first Black female explorer ever to be featured on the cover of the magazine. And in 2022, she was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. Tara was also named a Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab in 2019. She spent her early career years working as an editor for women and teen magazines like Essence and CosmoGirl.