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Maya Freelon Asante
Maya Freelon Asante is a dynamic young artist working in an unusual medium: tissue paper. Her vibrant monoprints are created by saturating colored tissue paper with water and using the released ink to form a new work on paper. Sometimes embedding old photographs into her prints, Freelon Asante introduces family stories into a collective history of African American resilience. For the current exhibition, the artist will also create a site-specific installation in the museum.
Arts Wall Exhibition in the Permanent Galleries |
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
(A “Thursdays at the Lewis” Program)
6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Artist Talk
Hear Maya discuss her exhibition, The Beauty of Now |
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Children’s Artist Workshop
Join Maya to create prints using colored tissue paper.
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1 – 2 p.m.
Master Artist Workshop:Creative Collage
Led by Maya, participants will create collage imagery evoking memory and storytelling. For more information and to register for this workshop please call 443-263-1875. Cost $5
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This exhibition of more than 100 photographs offers both a historic view of Baltimore’s East Side, and a modern focus on “Middle East” Baltimore, Belair-Edison in the northeast, and Latino communities in the city's southeast. Through audio and visual portraits, residents’ stories of family, home, neighbors, and belonging provide a mirror to East Baltimore’s past and a tour through its most recent history. The featured photographers are Ken Royster, Elizabeth Barbush of Art on Purpose, Ellis L. Marsalis, III, and Michela Caudill.
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Click here to email us your memories of the East Side. Your story may be included on our website for this exhibition. You may also share your comments on the exhibition and record your East Side Story at (443) 315-4080, press 0# at the prompt.
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African American women have played a role in every war effort in United States history. Sister, Soldiers examines the past and present military service of black women, from the Civil War to the War on Terror. After placing black women as soldiers within a broad historical context, the thematic panels of the exhibition highlight the impact of race and gender issues on military service as well as the “breakthrough” moments in the history of that service. Over the last forty years, the roles available to black women in the military have shifted dramatically. This exhibition offers perspective on today’s African American women within the present conflicts in which the nation is engaged and the sacrifices that some have made in the line of duty.
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Photograph of Ethel Ennis by Russ Moss. |
The exhibition features a selection of black and white photographs originally created by Moss for Sounds and Stories: The Musical Life of Maryland's African American Communities, an oral history project developed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Moss’s photographs capture the musicians with the trappings of their lives in music, and often with instruments they have cradled for a lifetime. Moss commented that his subjects “opened their lives for the camera as passionately as they have done for their audiences.” His touching and vibrant images spotlight singers Ethel Ennis and Ruby Glover, bassist Charles Harris, jazz pianist Reppard Stone, and a community of other performers, music instructors, and band leaders.
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Half a century ago Carolina families launched a lawsuit that changed America. This lawsuit was the first of five across the country that would lead to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. The Brown decision ruled racially segregated schools unconstitutional and set in motion a series of events that continue to shape our lives today.
Few Americans realize that what’s known as the case of the century, started in the Carolinas. The final chapters of Brown played out in the Supreme Court, but the story began when a country preacher named Rev. J. A. De Laine and his neighbors in Clarendon County, SC filed a lawsuit demanding the end of separate, unequal schools for their children.
This groundbreaking new exhibit tells the story of ordinary people – people outside the traditional power structure, without wealth and often with little classroom education – and how they worked together to begin the process that ended legal segregation of the races in America’s schools.
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African American voices in early television media were sparse, mediated, and filtered through mainstream interpretations and sensibilities. But, unique event occurred in Baltimore, Maryland, during February 1964, courtesy of WBAL-TV. After viewing a program on crime in the city, a 75-year old retired truck driver named James Emory Bond took his opinion on how the crime problem could be solved to the Television Hill studio of WBAL. Bond found himself and his voice broadcast to all of Baltimore, bringing an authentic African American perspective to current issues. Speaking powerfully for over an hour, Bond’s comments would be re-broadcast nationally and remembered for years to come. One Night in ’64 features a video presentation of the 60-minute interview with Bond, and contextualizes the broadcast within the history of African American representations on television.
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The Reginald F. Lewis Museum is pleased to announce its 1st Annual High School Regional Art Exhibition. Winners of this art exhibition will have their work showcased in the Museum’s Community Gallery and its quarterly publication, Journeys.
The art exhibition is inspired by the exhibit Courage: The Vision to End Segregation,
the Guts to Fight for It. Artists are invited to create a piece of artwork that reflects what courage means to them in their community.
Three winners will be awarded monetary prizes and will be honored at the opening reception on Saturday, January 24, 2009.
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