Exhibitions On View Make Good Trouble & Freedom Bound

 

Exhibitions On View   Make Good Trouble & Freedom Bound Check out the Museum's latest exhibition, Make Good Trouble with executive director Wanda Draper in this WBAL news feature. Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change exhibition highlights and features those artists and citizen protestors who took to the street to raise awareness about social injustices in the wake of George Floyd’s death.   Virtual: Special Events & Programs Baltimore Lives: A Discussion with John Mayden Thursday, November 19 7 - 8 P.M. EST FREE to attend, registration required. Award winning photographer John Clark Mayden has been documenting life in Baltimore’s African American neighborhoods since the 1970s. His photographs capture the ordinary joys and sorrows, quiet moments, and daily realities of life: kids on their bikes, old timers catching a breeze on their front stoops, busy people striding through the snow. Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for a discussion between Mr. Mayden and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson about Mr. Mayden’s photos and what they say about the beauty and heartbreak of everyday life, Black life, in this American city. Click HERE to Register. The event highlights the John Clark Mayden Collection, a gift to Johns Hopkins University through the Africana Archives Initiative, a partnership between the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts and the Sheridan Libraries.  Baltimore Lives can be purchased from the Johns Hopkins University Press. Who Belongs: Racial Profiling in the Synagogue Sunday, November 22  4:30 - 5:30 P.M. EST FREE to attend, registration required. Join clinical psychologist Dr. Harriette Wimms and Chizuk Amuno Congregation Senior Rabbi Joshua Gruenberg as they explore the often fraught experiences of Jews of Color and what it means to be seen as “other” even in one’s own community. Click HERE to Register. This is the second of three programs presented in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Maryland and Chizuk Amuno Congregation within the series, Jews of Color, Jewish Institutions, and Jewish Community in the Age of #Black Lives Matter.  Free the Vote- ACLU Premier Screening- Virtual Event Thursday, December 3 7:00 - 8:45 P.M. EST Join the ACLU of Maryland and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for a virtual  premiere screening of Free the Vote, a new documentary by the ACLU of Maryland. The film shows how denying the right to vote of people who are incarcerated is rooted in a deeply racist system by focusing on the stories of people who have experienced having their right to vote taken from them. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead, award-winning host of "Today with Dr. Kaye" on WEAA 88.9 FM. Panelists include: Qiana Johnson, executive director of Life After Release; Dr. Pippa Holloway, author of “Living In Infamy: Felon Disenfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship”;  More to be announced. Click Here to Register.  YOUTH PROGRAMS Social Justice Fabric Workshop for Youth - Virtual Program Saturday, November 21 and December 5 10 -11 A.M. EST Recommended for Grades 3-8. FREE to attend, registration required. Express your activism through art by creating a fabric quilt block on a social justice issue important to our community. Hosted by the Social Justice Sewing Academy, youth participant’s quilt blocks will be sewn together into a social justice quilt. Quilt block templates will be provided by the Academy. Participants will need fabrics, craft glue and scissors to participate in the virtual community quilting project. This program meets for 2 sessions. Click HERE to Register. In conjunction to Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change exhibition.