WAM Honors Black History Month with Activities For All
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Black History Month Celebration
Sunday, February 5, 1pm
Higgins Education Wing/Conference Room
Free
To commemorate the achievements of African Americans, the Museum hosts a special reception in celebration of Black History Month.
There will be a viewing of artworks created by Worcester youth participating in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Keeping the Dream Alive Essay Contest, on display February 1-February 24. Students in grades 4-6 will have creatively answered the question: "After reading about Dr. King's non-violent approach to avoiding and ending conflict, how would you resolve physical and verbal fights in the world, at school, in your neighborhood, or at home?"
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How are Art, Race, and Culture Intertwined?
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WAM Lecture Series Explains
Ever wonder what life was like for free people of color pre-civil war? Or how race and religion have formed Afro-Creole traditions? Or the process that led to the exhibition of Julien Hudson and his contemporaries? Then WAM's lecture series is for you.
'Oppressed Everywhere in this Slavery-Cursed Land':
Free People of Color Before the Civil War
Sunday, February 12, 2pm
Conference Room
Free with Museum admission
Professor Janette Greenwood, author of First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, will explore the worlds of free people of color in both the American South and New England. She will discuss the legal and social restrictions that limited their freedom as well as their fight for full-fledged citizenship. The Ghost of Pere Antoine: Afro-Creole Traditions and the Making of New Orleans Catholicism Thursday, February 23, 6pm
Conference Room
Free with Museum admission
This lecture by Justin D. Poche, Assistant Professor of History at Holy Cross, explores how race informed dominant narratives of New Orleans' Catholic heritage. It also examines the struggle by many Catholics of color in the early twentieth century to recover this lost Afro-Creole tradition against the rise of Jim Crow discrimination. This lecture is sponsored by The College of Holy Cross. CSI: Art History Sunday, March 11, 2pm
Conference Room Free with Museum admission William Keyse Rudolph, curator of the exhibition In Search of Julien Hudson, has spent years uncovering facts about the artist. Hear him describe his CSI-curator's survey and inquiry (his method of inquiry) and see his results in the exhibition. Dr. Rudolph is the Curator of American Art and Decorative Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and former Curator of American Art at WAM. In Search of Julien Hudson is co-organized by Worcester Art Museum and The Historic New Orleans Collection. It is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  
Partial funding for related events is also provided by Mass Humanities. 
For more information on the lecture series, click here. |
