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Met Stories: Connection

Jenita Pettway and Ariun Sanjaajamts share their Met Stories.

Watch episode four of Met Stories in which Jenita Pettway, Met software quality assurance specialist, connects her everyday experience as a Black woman to the powerful words in a work by Glenn Ligon; and Ariun Sanjaajamts, founder of the New York Mongolian Cultural Council, unexpectedly discovers her Mongolian heritage and a new place to share it.

Made for The Met's 150th anniversary, Met Stories is an award-winning video series and year-long social media initiative that shared unexpected and compelling stories gathered from the many people who visit The Met, whether artists, teachers, curators, actors, Museum staff, designers, thought-leaders, or public figures.

Do you have a Met Story? Share it with us.


Contributors

Jenita Pettway
Software quality assurance specialist at The Met
Ariun Sanjaajamts
Founder of the New York Mongolian Cultural Council

Composite image of Daniel-Bergmann seated in Astor Court framed on either side by paintings of koi fish; the text "Met Stories" appears in the center of the image
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Daniel Bergmann tells the story of how childhood visits to The Met’s koi pond led to the most important breakthrough in his life.
Daniel Bergmann
July 16, 2020
Video
Angela Reynolds, Gretchen Rubin, and Hai-Hsin share their Met Stories.
Angela Reynolds, Gretchen Rubin, and Hai-Hsin Huang
August 20, 2020
Met visitor Linbania Jacobson sits on a gallery bench in The Met's nineteenth-century painting galleries. She is framed to either side by two paintings; the text "Met Stories" appears in the center of the image.
Video
Linbania Jacobson tells the story of how her husband's dementia diagnosis led them to a program at The Met.
Linbania Jacobson
September 17, 2020

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Untitled: Four Etchings, Glenn Ligon  American, Four intaglio prints
Multiple artists/makers
1992
Helmet (rmog), Iron, gold, silver, copper, Mongolian
Mongolian
15th–17th century
War Mask, Iron, copper alloy, Mongolian or Tibetan
Mongolian or Tibetan
12th–14th century
Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo), Water-based pigment over foundation of clay mixed with straw, China
China
ca. 1319
Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Recumbent Doe, Bronze, Northwest China and southwestern Inner Mongolia
Northwest China and southwestern Inner Mongolia
5th–4th century BCE
Belt Buckle with Raptor Attacking a Goat, Bronze, Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia
2nd century BCE