Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Talks & Thoughts: COVID-19 in Black and White
2020-05-28 17:30 - 19:30 UTC
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the African American community in this country. African Americans are being infected and subsequently dying at higher rates. What puts the black community in this country at greater risk?
Join us for a conversation with Kaiser Permanente’s Director of Community Health, Celeste James, Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, and award-winning radio host and associate professor of Communication and African American Studies at Loyola University, Dr. Kaye Whitehead, as we discuss how and why black communities account for a disproportionate number of coronavirus cases and deaths.
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This program is presented in partnership with Kaiser Permanente.

VIRTUAL Family Story: Jumping Into the Records
2020-05-16 10:00 - 11:00
Once you have learned all you can from your living relatives, researching vital records is the next step in writing your family story. Virtually join genealogy expert Lyndra Marshall for this exciting workshop. The program will be hosted through Google Meet. Once registered participants will receive the meeting link.
This program is the second installment of the Lewis Museum’s 2020 genealogy series. Members: $5, Non-member: $8.
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Museum Nights @ Home
2020-05-14 18:00 - 19:30

Objects Revealed: Highlights of the Lewis Museum's Collection
2020-04-29 15:00 - 16:00
Learn the stories behind the remarkable items found in our permanent collection during Objects Revealed: Highlights From the Lewis Permanent Collection. ⠀
Join registrar and collections manager, Kaili Lockbeam, for this interactive lecture as she explains the history of the items found in our Stearns Family Collection of Slavery Documents. ⠀
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This virtual talk will take place on Wednesday, April 29 at 3 p.m. and is free to attend on Google Meet. Registration is required. After registering, you will receive the meeting information via email.
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CANCELED // Freedom Bound: Songs of Love, Hope, and Determination
2020-04-25 16:00 - 17:30
Together with Baltimore Musicales, the Lewis Museum presents an afternoon of art, songs, arias, and spirituals by African American composers and poets. Works by Thomas Kerr, Moses Hogan, Margaret Bonds, Hall Johnson, William Grant Still, H. Leslie Adams, and Florence Price, along with the premiere of new music by Baltimore-raised composer Jasmine Barnes. A reception with the artists will follow the performance.
Member: $10, Non-member: $15.
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CANCELED // Floetic Friday: Conversations With The Mirror
2020-04-24 19:00 - 20:30
Spoken word poets and hip-hop education scholars, Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley and Dr. Tony Keith Jr., will share stories about their journey towards intellectual, emotional, and spiritual liberation through performances of original poetry. Collectively, their work seeks to inspire audiences to center love, and knowledge of self in their passionate pursuit of purpose and dreams.
Members: $10; Non-Members: $15
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Virtual Storytime - Callaloo: The Trickster and the Magic Quilt
2020-04-23 13:00 - 14:00
Calling all little ones! Listen to the story of Callaloo: The Trickster and the Magic Quilt from author Marjuan Canady. This story is for kids aged 3 to 7 or all kids at heart.
In search of a long lost patch from her grandmother’s quilt, Zoe and her friend Winston travel to the Gullah Sea Islands where they meet the slick-talking Bruh Rabbit, who tricks them into handing over their quilt and vanishes to the magical island of Sankofaland. With time running out, Zoe and Winston enlist the help of some new friends to catch the trickster and find the missing patch before it’s too late.
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CANCELED // From the Front Lines: Five Years Later
2020-04-18 11:00 - 15:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
In partnership with Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, experience a day of reflection in examining the ways the Baltimore Uprising changed the City and the resources that are now available to effect sustainable change for the future. The program will include conversations with significant figures during the Baltimore Uprising, workshops on issues important to our community, and a talk with Wes Moore, CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation and author of Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City.
Special $5 admission. Registration encouraged; space is limited.
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Virtual Storytime: Sunday Shopping from Shadra Strickland
2020-04-16 13:00 - 14:00
Illustrator Shadra Strickland reads Sunday Shopping for this week’s storytime!
Sunday nights are special for Evie and Grandma. That’s when they go on their weekly shopping spree. Grandma flips open the newspaper to see what’s advertised, and the imaginary tour of neighborhood stores begins.
Overflowing with whimsy and a sweet grandmother-granddaughter relationship, this picture book is a joyous celebration of imagination, family love, and making a lot out of what you’ve got.
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CANCELED // Family Story: Jumping Into the Records
2020-04-11 10:00 - 13:00
Once you have learned all you can from your living relatives, researching vital records is the next step in writing your family story. Come explore all the documents the Lewis Museum’s Resource Center has to offer and learn how to decipher these confusing documents.
This program is the second installment of the Lewis Museum’s 2020 genealogy series. Members: $10, Non-member: $15.
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CANCELED // Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day: Earth Optimism
2020-04-04
Join us for Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Enjoy activities inspired by conservation and sustainability, including:

Crafting and art creation with recycled materials
Lessons on building a community garden
Earth Day-themed scavenger hunt

Free with Smithsonian Museum Day pass or museum admission.
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CANCELED // The Corner: 20 Years Later with David Simon
2020-04-02 18:30 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Based on the book “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood”, the television series, The Corner, first aired on HBO on April 16, 2000, and chronicled the life of a family living in poverty in West Baltimore.
Join author, journalist, and producer David Simon for commentary and recollections from the critically-acclaimed show.
A short audience Q&A will follow. Member: $10, Non-member: $15.
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CANCELED // Short Kuts Live: "My Mind's Playin' Tricks On Me"
2020-03-28 18:30 - 21:00
Join The Short Kuts Show live storytelling experience for the first show of its 2020 season at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. The show is inspired by the Geto Boys’ 1991 hit song, ‘Mind Playing Tricks On Me’–the first rap song to openly and unashamedly wax lyrical about struggling with mental illness.
Storytellers include Tracy Allen, LCSW-C (AKA “The Hood Therapist”),Chelsea Leah Burrell (meditation coach),Latesha Higgs (mental health advocate for NAMI), Amber Taylor (digital communications Strategist), Dasie Thames (human resources executive), Winifred Winston, M.S.,GCDF (author), and a handful of other mental health practitioners, mental health patients (past and current), and patient’s loved ones, sharing the true stories—hilarious, unbelievable, suspenseful, amazing, tragic, and triumphant—of their lives wrestling with the monsters of mental illness.
Member: $12; Non-Member: $15
Doors Open at 6:30 P.M.
Performance from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
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About The Short Kuts Show Narrative Therapy Initiative & Live Storytelling Experience:
The Short Kuts Show, a project created by Cambio Group Co-Founder and equity advocate and consultant, Dr. LaMarr D. Shields, Ph.D., and social designer Darius Wilmore, Co-Founder of the Taharka Brothers Ice Cream Company for Social Justice, Human, Rights, and Beyond, begun in 2017, debuting at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in 2018, is a narrative therapy initiative and live storytelling experience steeped in and inspired by the oral narrative tale-telling traditions and person to person(s) information sharing activities along with and the anticipated hair chair therapy (practiced, unofficially, by barbers/beauticians—the hair chair therapists) services persisting within the Black community’s barber/beauty shop sanctuary spaces within the U.S. and beyond.

CANCELED // Artist Talk: Diana Wharton-Sennaar
2020-03-21 13:00
Join artist Diana Wharton-Sennaar as she discusses her rewarding career as a musical composer and educator. Wharton-Sennaar is a founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock and composed the music for the Broadway hit, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Diana Wharton-Sennaar is the co-founder of Piano for Youth, an award-winning Maryland-based music education non-profit organization. Member: $10; Non-member: $15.
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CANCELED // Film Screening: 16 Bars
2020-03-15 14:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Exploring cycles of addiction and incarceration through the power of music and storytelling, the inspiring 16 Bars offers a window into rehabilitation. The film follows a unique rehabilitation effort in a Virginia jail that invites inmates to write and record original music. In the jail’s makeshift recording studio, four men collaborate on an album with Grammy-winning recording artist, Todd “Speech” Thomas, from the hip-hop group Arrested Development. Stay after the film for a panel discussion with Lyn Twyman, Reentry Subject Matter Expert, 16 Bars Regional Coordinator and CEO of LASERS; and Antoin Quarles, Founder of Helping Oppressed People Excel (HOPE). Watch the Trailer. Member: $6, Non-member: $8.
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CANCELED // Author Talk: The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
2020-03-14 13:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Author Joseph R. Fitzgerald will reveal how Gloria Richardson’s human rights activism extended beyond Cambridge, Maryland and how her liberation vision was embraced by younger activists of the Black Power Movement. A book signing will follow; books available in the Museum Shop. Member: $8; Non-member: $10.
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Girl Scouts Event: Celebrate 100 Years of Women's Right to Vote!
2020-03-07 10:00 - 14:00
Learn about the suffrage movement that resulted in the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Experience a living history portrayal of Sojourner Truth, learn about Maryland African American women who empowered women and men to exercise their right to vote, “vote” at a polling machine and participate in activities that explore and celebrate women’s history. This program is in partnership with Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Program fee: $10 per Girl Scout, $5 per adults.
Living History Presentations of Sojourner Truth by Denise Higgs: 11 am and Noon
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Family Story: Genealogy 101
2020-03-07 10:00 - 13:00
Researching your family tree can feel like being a detective with witnesses to interview, evidence to analyze and records to keep organized. Learn the basics of genealogy in the Lewis Museum’s Resource Center and start writing your family story. This program is the first in a series of genealogy programs to be hosted by the Lewis Museum. Member: $10, Non-member: $15. Purchase series of five genealogy programs for $45 for members or $65 for non-members.
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UPCOMING GENEALOGY SERIES

Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Family Story: Jumping Into the Records
Saturday, May 16, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Family Story: Unraveling Your DNA
Saturday, June 13, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Family Story: Weaving a Narrative
Saturday, September 12, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Family Story: Family Reunions & African Ancestry Revealed
Saturday, October 10, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Family Story: Digitizing the Past
Members Only
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Four Women: Catlett, Holiday, Richardson, Scott
2020-03-01 14:00
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum and ArtCentric partner for this production of “Four Women” inspired by Nina Simone’s song by the same name. Explore the lives of four amazing African American women through song and dance – Elizabeth Catlett, Billie Holiday, Gloria Richardson and Joyce J. Scott. In conjunction with Elizabeth Catlett: Artist as Activist and commemoration of Women’s History Month. Member: $20, Non-member: $25.
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Elizabeth Catlett Family Day
2020-02-22 11:00 - 14:00
Sponsored by BWI-Marshall Airport
Bring the entire family to explore the works of renowned printmaker and sculptor Elizabeth Catlett! Spend the day enjoying Afro-Latino dance performances, storytelling and studio art activities inspired by Catlett.
11 am to 2 pm Studio Clay Workshop with Clay Art Instructor Sallah Jenkins
Noon Latino Dance Performance and Demonstration with Mexican Folk
Group Bailes de Mi Tierra
1 pm Storytellling Puppet Performance with Marjuan Canady and ChelseaDee
Special admission: $5.
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Museum Nights: RBG (Red, Black & Green)
2020-02-20 18:00 - 21:00
Celebrate Black History Month at the Lewis with the return of Museum Nights!

Enjoy the sounds of DJ Tanz
Experiment with printmaking inspired by the exhibition Elizabeth Catlett: Artist as Activist
Grab your team and participate in Black history and culture trivia for prizes

Come dressed in red, black and green to receive 10% off in the Museum Shop. Includes a complimentary signature drink or bite. Cash bar available. 21 and older.
Member: $20, Non-member: $25.
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Smithsonian Channel World Premiere: Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier
2020-02-19 18:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
You’re invited to the premiere screening of Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier. This documentary charts the United States’ efforts to get the first African American astronaut into space at the height of the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement. Be the first to see this new documentary before it airs on the Smithsonian Channel. Panel discussion to follow. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
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Sweet Love: Valentine's Day at The Lewis
2020-02-14 18:30 - 20:30
Indulge in a night of wine, chocolate and art. Come with your partner, your girls or solo for wine and chocolate pairings featuring wines by Markell-Bani Fine Wines and Sparkling Beverages, FLO Wines, and Brown Estates Napa Valley. The wine will be paired with chocolate from Baltimore’s Pure Chocolates by Jinji. Before or after the tasting, explore our special exhibit, Elizabeth Catlett: Artist as Activist. Includes chocolate, wine pairing, light fare and a signature cocktail. Cash bar available. Registration required. Member: $40, Non-member: $50.
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Talks & Thoughts: Black Male Vote
2020-02-13 18:00 - 20:00
On February 3, 1870, Congress ratified the 15th amendment granting African American men the right to vote. Join us almost 150 years to the day and participate in a conversation examining the intricacies of the black male vote in America. The discussion will be led by award-winning journalist and communications strategist Jeff Johnson, creator and executive producer of BET’s Mancave. Free with museum admission.
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Gloria Richardson Day Artwork Unveiling
2020-02-11 16:00 - 17:00
In celebration of Gloria Richardson Day, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in partnership with the Eastern Shore Network for Change (ESNC) present the unveiling of No To The Status Quo, an illustration of civil rights icon and Dorchester County native, Gloria Richardson. This commissioned piece was created by artist Afua Richardson, and is the first in a series of artwork created for ESNC’s upcoming travelling exhibition How We Got Over: A Fight for Freedom and Equality in Dorchester County.

Film Screening: Wax Print (93 minutes)
2020-02-09 14:00
In many African homes, fabrics lay unassuming and taken for granted. Surprised to learn that ‘traditional’ African wax-printed fabrics were a colonial invention made in the UK and Holland, filmmaker & fashion designer, Aiwan Obinyan, sets out on a journey across four continents to trace the 200 year history of this iconic textile that has come to visually represent Africa and Africans. This event will also include a post discussion and textile pop-up with African textiles on view by local artisans. Watch the Trailer. Member: $6; Non-member: $8.
1pm – 4:30 pm:
Pop-up shop and live kente cloth weaving demonstration featuring African fabric store AFROTHREADS, Kwasi Asare, Master kente weaver and mathematician, and AfroTika.

Post discussion led by:

Evonne and Erika Opoku, owners of African fabric store AFROTHREADS
Meredith Hurston, Co-Host
Kwasi Asare, Master Kente Weaver and Mathematician

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Johns Hopkins Day
2020-02-08 11:00 - 17:00
Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and Medicine
Come enjoy all the Lewis has to offer for FREE with your Hopkins ID!
Schedule:
– KidzArt: Mask Making – 11 A.M. – 4 P.M. – 1st Floor, Classroom 112
– Objects Revealed – 11 A.M. – 4 P.M.
– Angelo and Marie’s Fantastic Bubble Show – 11:30 A.M. and 12:30 P.M.
– Docent Tours – 11:30 A.M., 1:30 P.M., and 3:30 P.M
– Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Musicians – 1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
– Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims: Artist Talk – 2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Special Admission $5 or free with Johns Hopkins ID.
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Film Screening: Always in Season
2020-01-26 14:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Always in Season examines the case of Lennon Lacy, an African American teen who was found hanging in North Carolina, in 2014. Despite the death being ruled as a suicide, Lennon’s mother, Claudia, believes he was lynched. Claudia moves from paralyzing grief to leading the fight for justice for her son. A post discussion will follow with Dr. David Fakunle (Chair of the Maryland Truth & Reconciliation Commission MLTRC) and Dr. Charles Chavis (School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution S-CAR, George Mason University). Watch the trailer. In partnership with Indie Lens Pop Up Series- MPT/ ITVS, Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum and the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project. Free with museum admission.
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Creating Black Comic Books (C.B.C.B.) Workshop (Ages 11-17)
2020-01-25 13:00 - 14:30
Calling all young comic artists! This workshop is designed to teach the necessary skills to emerging artists. Learn how to enhance your drawing skills, tips for self-publishing, and how to best present yourself as a professional in the expanding comic book industry.
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Members: $6; Non-members: $8

S.T.A.R.S. Workshop (Ages 6-10)
2020-01-25 11:00 - 12:30
Engage with Afrocentric comic book characters along with role playing, storytelling, and drawing activities in this workshop that combines creativity and literacy.

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Member: $6; Non-member: $8
