Director of the Anacostia Community Museum, lover of good books, SE resident, and connoisseur of cupcakes.
Washington, DC
Joined December 2019
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I'm thrilled to announce the @SmithsonianACM's latest special installation, "The Utopia Project: Inspiration for Creative Activism."
Celebrate together with us this Sunday! s.si.edu/3DREtDG
All change is local—and it starts with a dream.
"The Utopia Project: Inspiration for Creative Activism" is open at our @SmithsonianACM featuring this crocheted protest sign. London Kaye made it in 2020 and installed it at DC's Black Lives Matter Plaza.
ALT Crocheted textile in various rainbow colors including text: Vote, Protest, Can't Breath, Change Revolution, Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Latasha Harlins, Love Love Love, Black Lives Matter, Rodney King. There is an eye with Earth as the pupil, a raised fist in multiple colors, and a peace sign.
Proud of @si_africanart director for her hard work
Today, we address a historic injustice by returning the Benin Bronzes, magnificent examples of Benin's culture and history. Through this repatriation, we acknowledge a legacy of cultural theft and do our part to return African culture to Africans.
Shown here: bronze plaque.
ALT Bronze plaque with two raised figures in matching attire. They wear helmet-like head coverings, neck ornamentation that covers their mouths, and straps that cross their chest diagonally, perhaps connected to a bag or satchel.
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Thank you, @HarlemGirl59, for sharing this piece of your life with us. Your support helps the museum to continue sharing the story of our community with the world.
Today it's finally time to ship my papers off to @SmithsonianACM.
I'm feeling some kind of way about letting go of so much of my life's work that I've been aggregating for 40 + years. But I'm also so proud that this day have arrived. Mixed emotions
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One of my favorite books. Check out the exhibit @smithsoniannpg culturetype.com/2022/07/08/i…
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Happy to participate in 'Reframing History'. Listen along here: share.transistor.fm/s/bf2497…
Excited to share ACM's On-Line Exhibit, We Shall Not be Moved: Stories of Struggle from Barry Farms/Hillsdale
anacostia.si.edu/barryfarm/
Wonder recognition for the @SmithsonianACM staff
Happy to welcome Ambassador Etienne and his wife to the museum.
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Proud to add our voice to this important conversation.
Announcing our Community Partnership with COAL + ICE. ACM is joining with the Kennedy Center and 17 other organizations in DC to bring climate change to the forefront for one month.
Visit coalandice.org for more info.
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We're saddened to learn that @SmithsonianACM lost one of our Founding Mothers this weekend. At the age of 91, ACM's first Education Director Zora Martin Felton passed away, leaving us with a legacy that makes our museum what it is
youtu.be/BO473hffZgw via @YouTube
One of the best way to connect with your community is to hire people from the community. Proud to have Dwayne Lawson Brown on the ACM team.
washingtoninformer.com/smith…
If you are in the area, come out and get a book and meet the street team
Today! In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, our #ACMStreetTeam team will be giving away books at the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza (14th & Park Rd NW),11-1pm.
Take a moment with us at lunch to hear some performative reading as we make the city our museum. #TheCityIsOurMuseum
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Love seeing our street team in action in the gallery and in the streets.
The street team is in action through March as the museum is hosting 500 students from Milwaukee for private tours through the Learning Journey program that allows students to visit Washington D.C. for 5 days, including our museum.
#SmithsonianACM
ALT Photos of the Street Team taking students through the museum exhibitions
ALT Photos of the Street Team taking students through the museum exhibitions
ALT Photos of the Street Team taking students through the museum exhibitions
ALT Photos of the Street Team taking students through the museum exhibitions
Happy to welcome the new ACM Street Team.
Our building may be closed, but don’t count us out! Our newly appointed Street Team will be bringing the museum to YOU 🙌
Using guerilla techniques - chalk, paint, poetry, song - they’ll be teaching and reaching in surprising ways.
Want to see more? s.si.edu/MeetActivators/
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Great story about @SmithsonianACM environmental justice.
smithsonianmag.com/smithsoni…
Happy to welcome a new @SmithsonianACM team member
washingtoninformer.com/the-a…
Happy to welcome Cynthia Chavez Lamar to NMAI as the new director
We are thrilled to announce Cynthia Chavez Lamar as the new director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She is the first Native woman to be named as a Smithsonian museum director.
Read more: s.si.edu/3FIlWHR
If you are looking for a way to volunteer remotely this MLK day.
Dr. King and other Civil Rights leaders drew upon Reconstruction's constitutional Amendments as their judicial basis for combatting racial inequity. Join us and @NMAAHC as we transcribe #FreedmensBureau records to better understand this history and honor #MLK.
Learn more:
si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smi…
While our doors are closed for the week, I encourage you to join us virtually as we celebrate Kwanzaa through items in our collection.