Home Grown Healing: Smithsonian Collections Relating to Plants and Healing, Wellness, Ceremony, and Ritual

Introduction

Lee Glazer,

Curator of American Art,

Freer and Sackler Galleries

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Welcome

Mary Savig,

Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft,

Archives of American Art

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Barbara Stauffer,

Chief of Community Engagement,

National Museum of Natural History

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Co-Chairs, Material Culture Forum

Moderator

Betty Belanus,

Education Specialist,

Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

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Speakers

Susan Pell,

Science and Public Programs Manager,

United States Botanical Gardens

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Christine Price-Abelow,

Horticulturist,

National Museum of American Indian

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Diane Wendt,

Curator,

National Museum of American History

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Jake Homiak,

Director of the National Anthropological Archives and the Human Studies Film Archive, Department of Anthropology,

National Museum of Natural History

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