Johns Hopkins University Museums

Jazz on the Terrace: To Bop or Not to Bop
2024-05-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Jazz scholar Anna Celenza, Ph.D., will present a program exploring the roll of jazz in U.S. society during the 1950s and ’60s with relevant musical selections performed by the Hannah Mayer Quintet. The performance will be followed by an alfresco reception with the performers.

REGISTRATION

General Admission
$20.00

Friends of the JHU Museums
$15.00

JHU Faculty, Staff & Alumni
$15.00

Full-time JHU Students
$10.00

Please register HERE

Papercutting Workshop with Annie Howe
2024-06-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Master papercut artist Annie Howe teaches the basic technique of papercutting in this hands-on workshop. Participants will work towards completing at least one finished papercut design and will gain the know-how to continue papercutting at home.
The workshop begins with an introduction to Annie’s work and an in-depth demonstration of the techniques used to create custom papercuts. Anne provides beautifully designed templates for participants to use as a starting point for their papercuts. The remaining workshop time allows for students to create their own spectacular designs with Annie’s guidance.

REGISTRATION

General Admission
$30.00

Friends of JHU Museums
$25.00

J-Card Holders
$25.00

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Benjamin Banneker & Us Book Talk
2024-06-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, D.C. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a famous letter to Jefferson, imploring the new president to examine his hypocrisy, as someone who claimed to love liberty yet was an enslaver. More than two centuries later, Rachel Jamison Webster, an ostensibly white woman, learns that this groundbreaking Black forefather is also her distant relative.
Acting as a storyteller, Webster draws on oral history and conversations with her DNA cousins to imagine the lives of their shared ancestors across eleven generations, among them Banneker’s grandparents, an interracial couple who broke the law to marry when America was still a conglomerate of colonies under British rule. These stories shed light on the legal construction of race and display the brilliance and resistance of early African Americans in the face of increasingly unjust laws, some of which are still in effect today.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rachel Jamison Webster is a Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department of Northwestern University and the author of Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family, a book of creative nonfiction that explores ancestry, race, gender, and justice in American history. The book was chosen as a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker and was called “excellent and thought-provoking” by the New York Times Book Review. Rachel embarked on a collaborative process in the writing of this book, as she and her DNA cousins discussed racial justice, genealogy, and the stories of their ancestors, which include the African American surveyor and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker. Rachel has also published four books of poetry and hybrid writing, including, Mary is a River, which was a finalist for the 2014 National Poetry Series; September: Poems; The Endless Unbegun; and The Sea Came Up & Drowned, which combines erasure poems and Rachel’s collage artwork to meditate on our extractive economy and fractured relationship to the Earth. Rachel’s poems and essays often appear in anthologies and journals, including Poetry, Lit Hub, and The Yale Review.

REGISTRATION

Suggested Donation
$5.00

JHU Students
FREE

Friends of JHU Museums
FREE

Please register HERE

Lunch with the Libraries & Museums: Leave No Trace - John Work Garrett's Trip to the American West
2024-08-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event, MD, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Join JHU Museums’ Curator of Collections Michelle Fitzgerald for a special preview talk on Evergreen’s fall exhibition Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors. This virtual lunchtime talk is free and open to all, but advanced registration is required.

ABOUT LEAVE NO TRACE
When Evergreen resident John Work Garrett made his first trip to Yellowstone National Park in 1894 as the student ornithologist participating in one of the late-19th century Princeton Geological Expeditions, he would have been one of the earliest white tourists to enter the nation’s first national park. For the future diplomat, the trip was only the start in a lifetime of love for the American outdoors. He made sure to remember the trip through preserving his journals and photographs taken on the trip which offer a rare, personal glimpse into the outdoor recreational experience of late-19th-century Americans. Through Garrett’s photographs and souvenirs, “Leave No Trace” will examine the historic and present-day relationships that Americans have to the great outdoors.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michelle Fitzgerald is the Curator of Collections at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. With an interest in Chesapeake furniture in the 18th and 19th centuries, she has previously held positions at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Maryland Center for History and Culture, and the Maryland State Archives. She received her MA from the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and is published in the University of Chicago Press’ Winterthur Portfolio and AASLH’s History News magazine.
