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Alumni Showcase: Beauty Turner Academy

  • Virtual

  • Free

The Beauty Turner Academy of Oral History is back for the summer of 2025!

Want to see how past Beauty Turner Academy graduates have applied their training? Join us virtually as four alumni of the program share and discuss creative projects, memory practices, and capacity-building programs that they have led, bolstered by their time with the Beauty Turner Academy. 

Learn more!

If you’re interested in applying for this year’s Beauty Turner Academy cohort, applications are officially OPEN until April 25. This year’s program will be 11 weeks (June 9–August 29), and will include a participant stipend, training workbook, and equipment starter kit. 

This program is entirely virtual, so interested parties from across the country are welcome to apply.


Upcoming events

Info Session: Beauty Turner Academy

Join us to learn more about being a part of the Beauty Turner Academy of Oral History, a paid oral history training program for current and former public housing residents.

Graphic with photos of museum and yellow line work reads Grand Opening Weekend, April 4–6, 2025

Grand Opening Weekend

We can’t wait to welcome you inside our new home! Join us for a Grand Opening weekend at the National Public Housing Museum.

A vibrant promotional graphic reads Civic Love Luncheon over a pink background layered with thick looping orange swoops and thin blue lines. The graphic also includes the event information: Getting to the Heart of Housing Justice, Honoring Elizabeth Alexander, Co-Chairs Marisa Novara and Amy Khare, April 22, 2025, Chicago, Illinois.

Civic Love Luncheon

Celebrate the role of art and culture in promoting housing justice at the National Public Housing Museum’s inaugural Civic Love Luncheon.