Shelf Life

If Instagram encourages us all to be the curators of our accounts, does that make actual library and museum curators ideal Instagrammers? In this episode, we speak with Lauren Hewes, the American Antiquarian Society's curator of graphic arts and Instagrammer extraordinaire, about the parallels between designing an exhibition and posting to Instagram, what it means for individuals to "curate" their social media presence, and how she's cultivated the persona of (in her words) a 205-year-old grandma as the voice of the AAS Instagram. (Intro music: "Two Types of Awakenings" by Nheap)