Reginald F. Lewis Museum

First Fridays: The JoGo Project
2023-10-06 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring The JoGo Project
Friday, October 6 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase
The JoGo Project is a WAMMIE Award winning Jazz and Go-Go fusion band from Washington, DC founded in 2014 by DC Native Elijah Jamal Balbed, who performed with the late, great Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. In 2019, the band won the WAMMIE Award in the category of Best Go-Go Song for “Dear Draylen” composed by Elijah, with lyrics by JusPaul Spires and featured artist Wes Felton. In 2020, the band released their debut holiday track “JoGo Christmas” featuring Go-Go legend Sugar Bear.
Website: www.jogoproject.com
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IG: @thejogoproject
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Free Exhibition Day at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
2023-10-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
FREE Exhibition Day at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | 10am – 5pm
Enjoy a free museum admission day at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum touring the latest fall exhibitions to include Vision & Spirit: African American Art – Works from the Bank of America Collection and Blacks in White: African American Health Professionals. Bring your family and friends to tour the exhibits and enjoy one of the following art-related activities.
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Vision & Spirit African American Art Workshop for Kids
11am – 1pm

Inspired to become an artist like art masters Jacob Lawrence or Romare Bearden? Join us for this fun and interactive artwork workshop dabbling with drawing and mixed media materials utilizing your creativity. This workshop will be facilitated by visual artist Charles Mason III.
Seats are limited.
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Vision & Spirit Art Panel Discussion
2pm – 3:30pm

Spend the afternoon with Black community artists and curators in dialogue about their journey as artists and how their work contributes to the legacy of Black visual culture. Artists will discuss artist’s works from Vision & Spirit: African American Art and how it connects with Black artist’s experiences today. Panelists include:

Charles Mason – Charles Mason III is a visual artist who works in photography, mix media, installation, and painting to discuss social, racial, political, history, and identity issues. He has curated several shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia and has exhibited work in institutions such as The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Woodmere Art Museum, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, and Maryland Art Place. He has participated in group exhibitions to include, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) and The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD.
Ernest Shaw – Ernest Shaw Jr is known for Easel and mural painting, portrait specialty and African-American subjects. Being a native of West Baltimore has taught Artist Ernest Shaw the meaning of perseverance, community and integrity. As a product of Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore School for the Arts, Morgan State University and Howard University Shaw recognizes the importance of using his skills and talents for the betterment of others. For Ernest, teaching is also an artistic medium.
Jeffrey Kent – Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist and curator whose life’s work embodies healing and wellness through creativity in art making, mentorship, and stewardship. Jeffrey Kent is the founder of the Subbasement Artist Studios (2004-2014), an alternative art space in Baltimore and also Amy Sherald’s first artist studio. He is the co-founder of Connect+Collect (2018 – current), an initiative designed to create awareness and momentum among new and experienced collectors, provide professional development to Baltimore-based artists, and promote a culture of collecting in Baltimore.

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Vision & Spirit Art Panel Discussion
2023-10-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Vision & Spirit Art Panel Discussion

Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | 2pm – 3:30pm
Spend the afternoon with Black community artists and curators in dialogue about their journey as artists and how their work contributes to the legacy of Black visual culture. Artists will discuss artist’s works from Vision & Spirit: African American Art and how it connects with Black artist’s experiences today. Panelists include:

Charles Mason lll – Charles Mason III is a visual artist who works in photography, mix media, installation, and painting to discuss social, racial, political, history, and identity issues. He has curated several shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia and has exhibited work in institutions such as The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Woodmere Art Museum, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, and Maryland Art Place. He has participated in group exhibitions to include, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) and The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD.

Ernest Shaw – Ernest Shaw Jr is known for Easel and mural painting, portrait specialty and African-American subjects. Being a native of West Baltimore has taught Artist Ernest Shaw the meaning of perseverance, community and integrity. As a product of Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore School for the Arts, Morgan State University and Howard University Shaw recognizes the importance of using his skills and talents for the betterment of others. For Ernest, teaching is also an artistic medium.

Faith Couch – Faith Couch is a photographer, educator, and curator whose work illuminates the Black memory landscape and the mundane. She received her BFA in Photography from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 and has exhibited her work internationally. She has most notably exhibited at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the ICP, the Nasher Museum at Duke, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Aperture Foundation in NYC and more. Most recently, Couch is a Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 in Art and Style honoree.

Jeffrey Kent – Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist and curator whose life’s work embodies healing and wellness through creativity in art making, mentorship, and stewardship. Jeffrey Kent is the founder of the Subbasement Artist Studios (2004-2014), an alternative art space in Baltimore and also Amy Sherald’s first artist studio. He is the co-founder of Connect+Collect (2018 – current), an initiative designed to create awareness and momentum among new and experienced collectors, provide professional development to Baltimore-based artists, and promote a culture of collecting in Baltimore.

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Vision & Spirit African American Art Workshop for Kids
2023-10-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Vision & Spirit African American Art Workshop for Kids

Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | 11am – 1pm
Inspired to become an artist like art masters Jacob Lawrence or Romare Bearden? Join us for this fun and interactive artwork workshop dabbling with drawing and mixed media materials utilizing your creativity. This workshop will be facilitated by visual artist Charles Mason III.
Free Museum Admission
Seats are limited.

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Blacks in White Author Series: Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America with Dr. Monique Rainford
2023-10-12 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Blacks in White Author Series: Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America with Dr. Monique Rainford moderated by Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 | 6:30pm – 8pm
This event is free and open to the public.

Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them. Pregnant While Black is a hopeful exploration of the issues pregnant Black women face in America. Within these pages, Dr. Rainford draws on over twenty years of experience working in obstetrics and gynecology to offer a primer on Black pregnancies and how to better care for them. She shares the successes and testimonies of Black women who have struggled during pregnancy and childbirth, anchoring the stories of these women with carefully researched facts.
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for this overdue conversation on Black maternal health with Dr. Monique Rainford. Questions from the audience will be taken during a Q & A followed with an author book signing. This book conversation will be moderated by WEAA Radio Show Host, Dr. Kaye Whitehead. This program is in conjunction with Blacks in White: African American Health Professionals.
About the Participant:
Monique Rainford, MD, is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist with over twenty years’ experience. An award-winning graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School, she is currently an assistant professor at Yale Medicine. Her writing about maternal and other health disparities experienced by Black women has been featured in multiple publications, including Afro, Elephant Journal, and the Hartford Courant, and her broader work related to women’s health and wellness has been featured in the South Florida Times, the Baltimore Sun, Thought Catalog, and the Journal of Reproductive Medicine. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.
Kaye Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., professor of communication and African and African American Studies, is a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and the award-winning radio host of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9FM. She is also the founder and executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, and the founding executive director of the Emilie Frances Davis Center for Education, Research, and Culture. Her scholarship examines the ways race, class, and gender coalesce in American classrooms as well as in political and social environments.
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Book Talk - Kin: Rooted in Hope with Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford
2023-10-19 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Book Talk – Kin: Rooted in Hope with Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford | Sponsored by The Robert Family Fund with support by Verizon
Moderated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond
Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 6pm – 9pm
FREE EVENT | The first 125 registrants get a copy of the book!

Celebrate Black Family roots on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s newest book release, Kin: Rooted in Hope. Rendered in searing poems and stunning scratchboard art, a powerful portrait of a Black family tree is shaped by enslavement and freedom. From scraps of history, this mother and son duo have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universal.
Carole’s poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land itself that connects them all, and Jeffery’s evocative illustrations help carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as property in a 1781 ledger to he and his mother’s homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. This book conversation is moderated by Rachel D. Graham, Director of External Relations for The Lewis Museum. This book talk includes a book signing and light refreshments. A limited supply of free books will be available. Bring family, youth and educators to this intergenerational book event.
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Fall Fest: Health and Wellness Day Presented by MedStar Health
2023-10-28 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Fallfest: Health and Wellness Day Presented by MedStar Health

Saturday, October 28th, 2023 | 11am – 4pm | FREE EVENT
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum this fall for a day of health and wellness activities that focuses on the well being of your body, mind and spirit. Limber the body to Trap Yoga with hip hop beats with yoga instructor Brandon Copeland. Discover and sample healthy holiday recipes with Chef Clarence of Food Rx from MedStar Health. Participate in a discussion about racial health inequities in medicine and how they should be addressed. Enjoy a live Short Kuts Show with storytellers in the healthcare field sharing their personal stories of healing. Children and families can join Olu Butterfly and friends creating their own garden inspired art projects. Visitors will have the opportunity to participate in a health screening fair and obtain health resource materials provided by MedStar and other health organizations.
This program is sponsored by MedStar with support from Kaiser Permanente and Pompeian.
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MD Emancipation Webinar for Educators: Places of Black Joy: The NACE’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD
2023-11-01 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
MD Emancipation Webinar for Educators: Places of Black Joy: The NACE’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 5 pm – 6 pm, EDT

Celebrate Maryland Emancipation Day (November 1, 1864) exploring museum curricular resources developed by Maryland educators from the University of Maryland Writing Project connected with one of the first freedom celebrations in Maryland. Learn about Nathaniel “Nace” Hopkins, an enslaved Black man and Union soldier who founded the Nace’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD which is still celebrated today.
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First Fridays: The Kimberly Project
2023-11-03 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring The Kimberly Project
Friday, November 3 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase
Kimberly Holloway, formerly and musically known as K. Holloway, is an American singer and actress from Baltimore, MD. American Idol fans may remember her from Season 4 when she became the youngest person to make the Top 20.The Kimberly Project is a duo formed in 2022 when two veteran musicians met and instantly knew they needed to play together. With Kimberly Holloway on vocals and Bill Henry on guitar, these two are quickly taking the Baltimore music scene by storm with their unique blend of cover and original R&B, new-funk, funk, rock, pop, and more.
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ArtClusive Series: Beats Per Minute - 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Baltimore’s Contributions to the Culture
2023-11-09 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
ArtClusive Series:Beats Per Minute – 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Baltimore’s Contributions to the Culture
Thursday, November 9, 2023 | 6:30 pm – 8 pm
General Admission: $12 Adult | $9 Seniors, Students, Military

Remember clubbing at Odell’s, Club Fantasy or the Paradox? Go down memory lane vibing to Baltimore’s contribution to house and club music culture with Paradox club owner Wayne Davis, DJ Boo Man and DJ Kool Breeze. These music culture keepers will examine the history and the uniqueness of house music, hip hop and club music in Bmore versus our homies in New York. Both DJs will share archival video footage, music samplings and vinyl collections during this club music presentation. Learn how Wayne Davis, a prominent figure in developing Baltimore club music in the 1990s, opened the Paradox, a club that would become the epicenter of Baltimore club music culture. Davis will provide a detailed account of his legacy in arts and entertainment culture here in Baltimore.
In Conjunction with Vision & Spirit: African Art Works from Bank of America Collection. The Vision & Spirit Exhibition will be on view from 6pm until the program begins at 6:30pm.
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Reading the Culture Children Story and Art Hour
2023-11-11 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Reading the Culture Children Story and Art Hour
Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 11 am – 12 pm
Free with Museum Admission.

Enjoy a story learning how Jacob Lawrence began his dream of becoming an artist in Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem. Jake Makes a World follows the creative adventures of the young Jacob Lawrence as he finds inspiration in the vibrant colors and characters of his community in Harlem. Participants will check out one of Jacob Lawrence’s works in Vision & Spirit: African American Art: Works from Bank of America Collections. Then they will create their own inspired collage of their neighborhood.
In Conjunction with Vision & Spirit: African American Art Works from Bank of America Collection.
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Blacks In White Author Series: Twice As Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians
2023-11-11 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Blacks In White Author Series: Twice As Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians
Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Free with Museum Admission.

Join Penn Medicine student and author Jasmine Brown with her new book, Twice As Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians. Beginning with Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first black woman to graduate from medical school after the Emancipation Proclamation to Jocelyn Dr. Elders, who was appointed as the first African American US surgeon general, TWICE AS HARD introduces readers to the achievements of prominent black women physicians all the way up to the present. A book signing will follow.
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United States Post Service's John Lewis Stamp Dedication
2023-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Friday | November 17th | 4pm to 6pm
Free and open to the Public
Join us in honoring the legacy of civil rights & politician John Lewis as the United State Postal Service dedicates a stamp in his honor. The event will also recognize Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in his memory as the devastating disease that cut his brilliant life short. Click the link below to register today.
Please note: Garage parking is available across the street at 815 E. Pratt Street for $9 after validation.
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Blacks in White Yoga Series: Therapeutic Yoga with Leanora Eubanks (2 sessions)
2023-11-18 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Blacks in White Yoga Series: Therapeutic Yoga with Leanora Eubanks (2 sessions)
Saturday, November 18, 2023 | 11 am – 1 pm
Free with Museum Admission

Rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit through mindful breathing and yoga practice at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. This class applies healing techniques of yoga to alleviate specific trauma related problems (physical, mental and/or spiritual). Therapeutic Yoga is utilized as treatment to help heal human illnesses.
Note: Participants should bring yoga mats and wear comfortable clothing.
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Reclaiming Space for the Lumbee Indians of Baltimore With Dr. Ashley Minner Jones
2023-11-18 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Reclaiming Space for the Lumbee Indians of Baltimore With Dr. Ashley Minner Jones
Saturday, November 18, 2023 | 2 pm – 3 pm
Free with Museum Admission.

Celebrate National American Indian Month with Reginald F. Lewis Museum as we explore the history and legacy of Lumbee Indians in Baltimore with Lumbee artist and scholar Dr. Ashley Minner Jones. After World War II, thousands of Lumbee moved north to cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Detroit, seeking work and a better quality of life. Learn about the sizable population of Lumbee Indians that formed a community in East Baltimore during the 1950s—1960s. Dr. Minner Jones will share the story of an intergenerational team’s process to reconstruct the historic community and reactivate heritage through oral history, archival research, mapping, and walking.
About the Participant
Dr. Ashley Minner Jones is a community-based visual artist and folklorist from Baltimore, Maryland where she has lived on the same block her entire life. Her interdisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in place—usually within the context of the U.S. South—and is focused on honoring and celebrating everyday people by lifting up their stories. Ashley is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.She earned an MFA in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art and a PhD in American Studies from University of Maryland College Park. As an artist, she has exhibited widely and her work is represented in several prominent collections. Her research is being archived as “the Ashley Minner Collection” in the Albin O. Kuhn Library of the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
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A Conversation about Health Equity Presented by MedStar Health
2023-11-28 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
A Conversation about Health Equity Presented by MedStar Health
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | 5:30 pm – 8 pm | FREE EVENT
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for a Conversation About Health Equity featuring keynote speaker Angela Thomas DrPH, MPH, MBA, Vice President Healthcare Delivery Research MedStar Health. A Social Meet & Greet begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by a panel discussion from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Plus enjoy free entry to the Blacks In White Exhibit during this event. MedStar Health is proud to be a supporting sponsor of the Blacks In White exhibit that showcases the contributions of African American and Black healthcare professionals from the Baltimore region.
Keynote Speaker: Angela Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA, Vice President Healthcare Delivery Research MedStar Health
Panelists:
Jessica Galarraga, MD, MPH, Assistant Vice President Health Equity MedStar Health
Michelle Roett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Professor and Chair Department of Family Medicine MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Moderator:
Sandy Harris, Vice President of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity MedStar Health
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Beyond Their Years: The Incredible Legacies of Herb Carnegie & Buck O'Neil
2023-11-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Thursday, November 30th
Reception: 6pm | Screening & Panel Discussion: 7pm
Free and open to the public | Limited seating – Advance registration required
“Beyond Their Years” depicts the compelling story of parallel lives lived by sports and social justice icons Herb Carnegie (hockey) and O’Neil (baseball), who were excluded, because of their race, from competing at the highest professional leagues of the sports they loved. Instead of becoming angry and bitter, they channeled the injustice they both experienced into pioneering work that made their respective sports, and the world, more inclusive. The 48-minute ﬁlm, that features dozens of interviews and rare footage, ties together their legacies in a verité style that teaches, heals, and humanizes.
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First Fridays: Joi Carter
2023-12-01 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring Joi Carter
Friday, December 1 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase
Joi Carter is a multi-talented singer best known as a reality star from season 5 of “Ready 2 Love” and “Love & Marriage: DC” on the OWN Network. Her bold sound and vibrant stage performance indicate her love for 80’s music and her childhood in a house filled with soca, funk, and rock. also shined as a background singer for R&B crooner Carl Thomas and has toured internationally with ‘The Pocket,’ a Washington, DC-based alternative-rock-reggae band. JC’s experience has taken her worldwide, from Dubai, China to Mexico, and now this dynamic performer brings her fierce energy center stage as a solo artist.
FB: @joicartermusic
IG : @joicartermusic
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Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite, with Charles Funn Big Band, featuring Baltimore Dance Tech
2023-12-09 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite, with Charles Funn Big Band, featuring Baltimore Dance Tech
Saturday, December 9 | 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Enjoy the holidays with a performance of the ballet classic, the Nutcracker with an urban twist.
The performance fuses live jazz and ballet, with original arrangements by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, to form a soulful celebration celebrating the Baltimore Cultural Arts Project 1964-1993. A digital exhibition will feature photos of the first Cultural Arts Urban Nutcracker performed in Baltimore City (1976-1977).

This multigenerational live performance will include:

Original dancers from the Baltimore Cultural Arts Project – Duke Ellington Nutcracker
Dunbar jazz band alumni(s) led by Music Director Charles Funn
Urban Youth Ballet
Baltimore Dance Tech Company members with Dance Director Ms. Stephanie Powell

Born out of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and the Model Cities legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 1966, the Baltimore Cultural Arts Project was created by the Model Cities Program in the late 1960s in order to provide creative programs, events, and instruction in theater, dance, music, art, and more. Free and widely available dance, performance, and visual arts education for three generations of Baltimoreans are some of the longest-standing legacies of the Cultural Arts Project. CAP also led to the founding of several key arts initiatives and institutions in the city, including AFRAM, Arena Players, Eubie Blake Cultural Center, and Baltimore Dance Theater.
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Film Screening & Discussion Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
2023-12-09 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Film Screening & Discussion Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Saturday, December 9th | 12 pm – 2 pm
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back is a portrait of the charismatic song-and-dance man from his tap-dancing childhood to today. Maurice and friends—Chita Rivera, Mercedes Ellington and Debbie Allen—tell tales from his seven-decade career, including Broadway shows, a co-starring role in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club and about his loving yet complex relationship with his superstar brother, the late Gregory Hines. Ever battling the challenges of being a gay, black man in show biz, Maurice shares his story with humor and grace. Join husband and wife filmmakers John Carluccio and Tracy Hopkins for a post-film conversation on Mr. Hines as we celebrate his upcoming birthday on Dec 13. The conversation will be moderated by interdisciplinary artist and tap dancer Brinae Ali.
About Our Guest:
John Carluccio | Director, Producer, D.P., Editor
John is a two-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker who is best known for documenting obscure pockets of urban society and the creative process. His documentary project Battle Sounds (1997) has a large underground following and is considered to be the first film to document the Turntablism movement in the 1990s. John’s short films have aired nationally and internationally. In a 20-year span, John created over 500 short films as an on-staff producer/director for TV and digital networks including Current TV, BRIC TV and Dubspot Music School, and for clients such as the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Native Instruments, and Sozo Artists via his production companyCINQUA | Creative Documentary Agency.
Tracy E. Hopkins | Writer, Producer
Tracy is an award-winning and widely published arts and entertainment journalist. With over 25 years of experience, she has interviewed hundreds of performing artists and written and reported for numerous print and digital media outlets including The Associated Press, PEOPLE, Essence, AARP, Entertainment Weekly, Rollin Stone, Broadway World and Dance Business Weekly. As an editor and researcher, Tracy has worked with Time Inc., Rodale Press, Conde Nast and T Brand Studio. Tracy has produced segments for BRIC TV and as an Associate Producer she has worked on two documentaries for Drifting Cloud Productions.
About Our Moderator:
Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley, born and raised in Flint, Michigan, is an interdisciplinary artist who believes in using the power of the arts to transform the conditions of the human spirit. When she is not traveling and performing, she is giving back to young people and grass roots organizing. Currently Bradley is the artistic director of Tapology, Inc. a youth based outreach program in Flint, that believes in preserving the art of tap and jazz culture through education and performance. As an educator she has collaborated with After School Activities Partnership, East Park Revitalization Alliance, Philadelphia Clef Club of Performing Arts, Raise It Up! Youth Arts and Awareness, Flint Youth Theatre, Mural Arts of Philadelphia, Young Audiences of New Jersey, Queens College, Long Island University, Ping Chong and Company, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and was an artist in residence at the Carol Morgan School in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Apollo Theater Education with Wadleigh High School in Harlem NYC. She has also served as an adjunct professor at Queens College and Long Island University. Internationally Bradley has traveled and performed around the world in countries such as, France, Germany, China, and Brazil. She also travelled with a team of tap dancers to Russia for a tour in 5 cities working with the U.S. Embassy for its cultural exchange program celebrating National Tap Dance Day. Her broadway and off-broadway experience has gained her positions as assistant dance captain for “Shuffle Along: the 1921 Sensation And All That Followed” choreographed by Savion Glover and directed by George C.Wolfe, company member of NY and Touring cast of STOMP, special feature in the “Cotton Club Parade” which later became “After Midnight” under the musical direction of Wynton Marsalis, New York City Center Off -Center production of “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” directed and choreographed by Savion Glover and was a part of a two week tour in Italy celebrating Ella Fitzergerald’s centennial. As a playwright and songwriter she has also created award winning works such as Best Short Play at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival for her one woman show “Steps” and the Vox Populi Independence Music Award for “Destination Forever: Vol.1 EP.” Currently she is developing a work in progress with trumpeter Sean Jones called “Dizzy Spellz” fusing tap, Bebop, Hip Hop, and Afro Cuban music to articulate the African American experience through the music of Dizzy Gillespie from a afrofuturistic lense.

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MLK Author Talk: King A Life with Jonathan Eig
2024-01-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
MLK Author Talk: King A Life with Jonathan Eig
Saturday, January 13 | 2 pm – 3:30 pm
FREE EVENT
Join Reginald F. Lewis Museum President Terri Lee Freeman and bestselling author Jonathan Eig in conversation on his monumental new biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists.
Eig reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father―as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.
In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.
A book signing will follow.
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KING DAY 2024
2024-01-15 11:00 - 20:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
KING DAY
CANCELED?: Due to inclement weather, King Day has been canceled for the safety of our visitors and staff. Please be safe and stay warm today!

Celebrating Dr. King and Maryland’s Year of Civil Rights through music, art, storytelling and virtual reality in connection as we close the exhibition, Vision & Spirit | African American Art: Works from the Bank of America Collection. Enjoy an artist talk with NMAAHC Curator Aaron Bryant on civil rights photojournalists who documented Dr. King and other landmark moments from this era. Reflect on the movement with a choral performance from the Carter Legacy Singers, a community-based ensemble comprised of Dr. Nathan Carter’s alumni singers from Morgan State University. Families can learn more about the Montgomery Bus Boycott through mother-and-son storytellers, “Dr. Mama” Deborah Pierce-Fakunle and Dr. David Fakunle. Participate in an I Am A Man virtual reality experience to explore the Memphis Sanitation Workers protests and their aftermath. Hear a panel discussion reflecting on Dr. King and pivotal moments in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Maryland community civil rights leaders. Participants include: Rev. Dr. Ruby Reese Moone, Charles Mason, Leo Burroughs Jr., Lisa Mitchell Sennaar and Simone R. Barrett (Moderator). July 2, 1964 marks the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The day concludes with a screening of the documentaries Disruption: Highway to Nowhere and Eroding History and a panel discussion with the films’ producers and policy makers as they consider the equalizing factor of environmental injustice and its impacts on Black Marylanders in urban and rural settings. Produced by journalist and documentarian Sean Yoes, Disruption: Highway to Nowhere explores Baltimore’s infamous Highway 40 and the damage its construction wrought upon West Baltimore, once considered one of several of America’s most vibrant Black communities that were irreparably disrupted and damaged by 20th century federal highway projects.
Eroding History tells the story of two Black communities on Deal Island, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, that are finding themselves at the intersection of sea level rise, historic racism, and the disappearance of Black communities. It is a climate justice story, made by two Black filmmakers – Yoes and Andre Chung – and a Jewish grandchild of refugees, Rona Kobell. A deeply personal and moving story of a community striving to hold on to its culture, Eroding History is anything but dry.

Inaugural Annual Meeting
2024-01-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Inaugural Annual Meeting
Thursday, January 18 | 6:30 pm – 8 pm
FREE EVENT
We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for your invaluable support of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. As a highly appreciated supporter, we extend an invitation to attend our Inaugural Annual Meeting, on Thursday, January 18th, at 6:30 pm at the museum.
The meeting serves as an opportunity to talk with board members and senior staff and learn about accomplishments and opportunities for the coming year.
Kindly confirm your attendance by using the link provided no later than January 12th.
We are delighted to have you as a supporter of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and we look forward to your attendance at the Inaugural Annual Meeting.
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Inaugural Annual Meeting
2024-01-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Inaugural Annual Meeting
Thursday, January 18 | 6:30pm to 8pm
Please RSVP by Monday, January 15th

We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for your invaluable support of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. As a highly appreciated supporter, we extend an invitation to attend our Inaugural Annual Meeting, on Thursday, January 18th, at 6:30 pm at the museum. The meeting serves as an opportunity to talk with board members and senior staff and learn about accomplishments and opportunities for the coming year.
Kindly confirm your attendance by registering no later than January 15th!
We are delighted to have you as a supporter of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and we look forward to your attendance at the Inaugural Annual Meeting.
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In Conversation | Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers Author Talk with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson & Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead
2024-01-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
In Conversation | Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers Author Talk with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi & Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Moderated by Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead
Tuesday, January 23rd | 6:30pm to 8pm – Doors open at 6pm
Admission: $20 for Members | $25 for Non-Members
Admission includes a copy of the book

Join The Reginald F. Lewis Museum for an inspiring discussion with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on his brand new release Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers with Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, Illustrator, and moderated by WEAA 88.9 FM’s Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead. In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic human trade, in an adaptation of the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Barracoon. This is the life story of Cudjo Lewis, as told by himself. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America to be enslaved, eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis was then the only person alive to tell the story of his capture and bondage—fifty years after the Atlantic human trade was outlawed in the United States. Cudjo shared his firsthand account with legendary folklorist, anthropologist, and writer Zora Neale Hurston.
Adapted with care and delivered with age-appropriate historical context by award-winning historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Cudjo’s incredible story is now available for young readers and emerging scholars. With powerful illustrations by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, this poignant work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson is a visual artist, scholar, composer, and curator. Her practice centers on the interplay of animation, printmaking, music, and dance, informed by a yearning to understand how our current circumstance is tethered to the trauma of the past. Through her visual, sonic, and movement investigations across time and technology she disrupts and asserts ideas of history, body, liberation, and otherness. Above all, she is interested in redistributing the privileges that allow her to maintain her creative and scholarly practice.
She received her BFA in Film, Animation, and Video at RISD, her MA in Public Humanities at Brown University, and a heavy dose of education working with youth in Baltimore, South Africa, India, New York City and Providence. She has curated exhibitions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Artist Proof Studio and the ABSA Art Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; RISD Museum; and Brown University Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, where she was also a Public History of Slavery Fellow.
As the 2019 inaugural Artist in Residence at the Rhode Island Department of Health she utilized the arts to confront health disparities. She was the 2020 Artist Fellow at the RISD Museum making work in response to the collection. As a 2022 Fitt Artist-in-Residence at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University, she created Not Never More a visual remix of the historic wallpaper Les Vues D’amérique Du Nord. At the 150th Anniversary of the Colfax Massacre she designed the Colfax Massacre Memorial—etched in granite, it honors and centers the stories of the Black victims of the tragedy. She is the illustrator of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, adapted for young readers by Ibram X Kendi.
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CIAA SCAVENGER HUNT | 2024
2024-02-01 00:00 - 2024-02-12 00:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
THE CIAA IS ON THE HUNT
JOIN US ON OUR SCAVENGER HUNT TO EXPERIENCE THE BEST BUSINESSES IN BALTIMORE!
The Hunt is on in Charm City, Baltimore! The CIAA Business Scavenger Hunt is back for its second annual hunt, and when you participate, you can win big. Find one of our CIAA partnered businesses, tap the E powered by E-Smart with the back of your phone, and get special discounts. Listed are the businesses and discounts you could get when you participate:

Berries By Quicha – Buy two gourmet chocolate covered strawberries and get ONE FREE
Cajou Creamery – 10% off a double scoop cone
Drama Mama Book Shop – 10% off your purchase
Reginald L. Lewis Museum – $2 off admission
Saturday Morning Cafe – 10% off your meal

And that’s not all, by visiting one of the businesses and submitting your name and email address, you will be entered to win the grand prize. A lucky grand prize winner will win a 2 night stay at Lord Baltimore Hotel, CIAA step show tickets, Official CIAA party tickets, Food Lion CIAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship game tickets, breakfast for 2 at Saturday Morning Cafe and ½ dozen of strawberries from Berries by Quicha. You have until February 12th to enter to win big.
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BLACK WOMAN GENIUS: Elizabeth Talford Scott—Tapestries of Generations
2024-02-01 10:00 - 2024-09-30 17:00
Opening February 1, 2024
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum presents BLACK WOMAN GENIUS: Elizabeth Talford Scott—Tapestries of Generations, in partnership with the Elizabeth Talford Scott Community Initiative, the 2023-24 Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) capstone project for MICA’s undergraduate Curatorial Studies Concentration. The exhibition focuses on Elizabeth Talford Scott as a key figure for Black women in the fiber arts. Her work will be showcased alongside contemporary Black women fiber artists from the Chesapeake area. The exhibit will explore themes including Ancestry, Tradition, Fiber Narratives, and Healing, aiming to spotlight the distinctive elements of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s work and featured artists including: Kibibi Ajanku, Aliana Grace Bailey, Aliyah Bonnette, Mahari Chabwera, Dr. Joan M.E. Gaither, Murjoni Merriweather, Glenda Richardson, Joyce J. Scott, Nastassja Swift, and Katherine Stewart Wilson.
We will showcase several of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s remarkable works. Among these, “Stamps and Flags II,” one of her early creations, pays tribute to her evolution and exploration as an artist. This exhibition aims to emphasize Elizabeth’s significant influence as a maternal figure for generations of Black women fiber artists. Through her exceptional artistry, she brilliantly reflects her life experiences as a Black Woman.
The Elizabeth Talford Scott Initiative
This initiative brings together five museums and four university sites across Baltimore City for a reunion of the artist’s work from February through May 2024. Each venue will have at least two Exhibition De students from the participating colleges—Coppin State University, Johns Hopkins University, MICA, and Morgan State University—working on a presentation of Talford Scott’s work for their gallery spaces and organizing a free public program. Under the guidance of 2023-24 EDS Instructor Deyane Moses, the students will determine the curatorial direction of their presentation, drawing out connections to each organization’s collection, space, history, and/or audience.
Major support for “No Stone Unturned” provided by the Bunting Family Foundation and Friends of EDS. Community Day is supported by Lorraine Whittlesey & Markell Whittlesey. Printed and digital materials are supported by The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund. The Closing Reception is supported by Carol and Jerry Doctrow. In-kind support is provided by the Estate of Elizabeth Talford Scott at Goya Contemporary Gallery.
NOTE: Purchasing a ticket to BLACK WOMAN GENIUS: Elizabeth Talford Scott—Tapestries of Generations view grants visitors access to all current Museum exhibitions.
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Historic Change: Celebrating the Activism and Impact of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray
2024-02-03 11:00 - 15:30 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Historic Change: Celebrating the Activism and Impact of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray
FREE EVENT | Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 11am– 3:30pm
Join us to celebrate the latest release in the American Women Quarters™ Program! AWQ is the first circulating coin program dedicated to honoring women whose achievements, triumphs, and legacies reflect the strength, perseverance, and resiliency of our nation.
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum and the United States Mint, in partnership with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, invite you to Historic Change: Celebrating the Activism and Impact of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray.
Taking place in conjunction with the opening of the Black Woman Genius exhibition at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, this free community day will explore the civil rights activism and impact of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Attendees will learn more about Rev. Dr. Murray’s life and her leadership in the civil rights movement, as well as her dedication to community service in Baltimore.
10:00 am – 3:30 pm | Tabling Activities with SAWHM and U.S. Mint
11:00 am | Formal Ceremony of Pauli Murray
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm | Leaders Like Us: Pauli Murray Story Time
1 pm – 3 pm Quilted Education Film Fiber Art Workshop Hosted by The Reginald F. Lewis Museum in conjunction with the opening of BLACK WOMEN GENIUS: Elizabeth Talford Scott – Tapestries of Generations
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Quilted Education Film Screening and Fiber Art Workshop
2024-02-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Quilted Education Film Screening & Fiber Art Workshop
Saturday, February 3 | 1pm – 3pm
Explore Black History through quilting with a short film screening of QUILTED EDUCATION. This film celebrates a mother’s artistry and determination to fill the educational void for her daughter regarding Black History within the public school system. A conversation will follow with filmmaker Kayla Robinson and quilter historian Karen Robinson about their Black history story quilt which features over 64 Black pioneers in the fields of sports, military service, science, politics, civil rights, performing arts, literature and more. This conversation will be moderated by Glenda Richardson, who’s work is featured in BLACK WOMAN GENIUS: Elizabeth Talford Scott |Tapestries of Generations Museum visitors will be given the opportunity to create their own Black History quilt square with this mother – daughter team.
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Black Theater Book Conversations with Michelle R. Scott & Caseen Gaines
2024-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
NOTICE: This program is being rescheduled to a later date. A new date for will be announced at a later date. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to our Visitors Services desk at 443-263-1800.
Black Theater Book Conversations with Michelle R. Scott & Caseen Gaines
Saturday, February 10 | 1 pm – 3 pm | Purchasing a ticket to Black Theater Book Conversations grants visitors access to all current Museum exhibitions.
Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for “tough on black artists.” But the Theater Owner’s Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie.
With the curtain rising against the backdrop of widespread racial discrimination and a theater industry struggling to rebound after a global pandemic, Shuffle Along challenged social norms and defied the odds to become the first Broadway musical with an all-Black cast and creative team to become a phenomenon. No one was sure if America was ready for thoughtful portrayals of Black characters.
Celebrate African Americans in the Arts with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for this year’s Black History Theme recognized by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). The museum will examine the contributions in Black Theater with a joint book talk with authors Michelle R. Scott (T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners’ Booking Association in Jazz-Age America) and Caseen Gaines (When Broadway Was Black – The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World). A book signing will follow afterwards
NOTICE: This program is rescheduled to a later date. A new date for will be announced at a later date. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to our Visitors Services desk at 443-263-1800.
