Lyra Monteiro is co-founder of The Museum Project (www.themuseumonline.com), a group which seeks to help people understand their worlds through site-specific work that combines art and research. She is currently a PhD candidate in the
interdiscipli
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Lyra Monteiro is co-founder of The Museum Project (www.themuseumonline.com), a group which seeks to help people understand their worlds through site-specific work that combines art and research. She is currently a PhD candidate in the
interdisciplinary Archaeology program at Brown University, and is also working on an Masters degree in Public Humanities. In addition to the New Americans program currently under development for the Harvard Art Museum, her recent museum work includes audience studies for the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, and research for a walking tour of the National Mall in Washington DC, for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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