Hood Museum Companion Workshop for the Osher Summer Lecture Series
NOTE: Public registration for this event opens July 6.
EARLY REGISTRATION ACCESS: Prior to July 6, anyone who has purchased a full series ticket to the 2026 Summer Lecture Series qualifies for early registration access. Contact the Osher at Dartmouth office at (603) 646-0154 to register.
Four years ago, planning began for a series of exhibitions at the Hood Museum to tell American stories through American art. As John Stomberg said in his “Director’s Letter in the most recent edition of The Hood Quarterly, “The 250th anniversary of the United States comes at a moment of heightened attention to the role that histories have had in defining the past and present, as well as influencing the future.”
How will artificial intelligence rewrite our history and define our future? This is the concern behind the Osher Summer Lecture Series: How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming America? Over the course of six lectures this summer, experts will share their ideas about how AI is reshaping nearly every dimension of modern life, from medical diagnostics and scientific discovery to communication, creativity, ethics, economics, and the environment. While there is no one-to-one correlation between the exhibitions and the various topics to be explored by the series, close looking and discussion of the art would provide a rich space for dialogue as we struggle to know truth in the age of AI.
The 2026 exhibitions at the Hood invite us to think about how we see ourselves and how our history and culture have been represented. In this companion workshop for the Lecture Series, we hope to provide a unique avenue to explore and discuss how we have come to understand ourselves through art and how, as our nation speeds into a new era of technological advancement, we are struggling with questions about truth and the influence of AI.