Johns Hopkins University Museums

Sketching at Evergreen: Main Library
2023-03-29 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE EVENT
Calling all budding artists! Evergreen Museum & Library is once again offering sketching sessions throughout the museum. Each session is for 90 minutes and focuses on a single space in the museum (check different dates for new room offerings). This session features the Main Library at Evergreen, which holds some 8,000 rare books and manuscripts on its shelves. A docent will be on hand to answer any questions about the room, the collection, and the history of the house and its inhabitants.
VISITOR INFORMATION

Masks are optional
In order to protect our collection, we ask that only pencils or colored pencils be used when sketching inside the house. **Water pens are not allowed. Supplies are not provided with purchase of ticket.
Due to the historical nature of the building, accessibility is limited, and some parts of the museum can only be reached via stairs.
Stools are available for the duration of the session.
Free self-guided tours of the gardens and grounds are included in admission. Full guided house tour is not included in admission to sketching session.
Free parking is available

Meaning, Memory & Mystery: Curating Historical Native American Art
2023-03-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Join Gaylord Torrence for his lecture, “Meaning, Memory, and Mystery: Curating Historical Native American Art.” Torrence examines the distinct, fundamental challenges that underlie the creation of exhibitions, permanent galleries, and publications — not only for the curator, but also the communities, tribal groups, and nations whose ancestral works are being presented to the greater public.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gaylord Torrence is Emeritus founding Fred and Virginia Merrill Curator of Native American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Professor Emeritus in Fine Arts, Drake University. He is a specialist in Plains Indian visual culture and widely recognized for fostering new perspectives in historical Native American art and the recognition of contemporary indigenous artists. In 2018, Torrence guest curated the inaugural permanent installation of Native North American art in the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His publications include Continuum: Native North American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (with Marjorie Alexander, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2020), Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018), The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky (Musée du Quai Branly, 2014), “The Raven Belt Ornaments of Lewis and Clark,” in Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark’s Indian Collection, ed. Castle McLaughlin (Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 2003), The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting, (University of Washington Press, 1994), and Art of the Red Earth People: The Mesquakie of Iowa (with Robert Hobbs, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1989).

Image credit: parfleche, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 2009.42.1

Storytime at Evergreen
2023-04-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Just in time for Baltimore City Public Schools’ spring break, all young readers (and their parent/guardian) are invited to stretch out in Evergreen’s garden for a special spring-themed story, as well as fun crafts and activities. BYO snack and blanket/cushion/chair.
Rain location: Bakst Theatre

Storytime at Homewood
2023-04-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Just in time for Baltimore City Public Schools’ spring break, all young readers and their parents/guardians are invited to sit crosscross applesauce in Homewood’s orchard for a special story time reading of The Apple Orchard Riddle, as well as fun crafts and activities. BYO snack and blanket/cushion/chair. Advance registration required.
Rain location: Wine Cellar

JHU Museums' Spring Director's Circle Event
2023-04-20 17:30 - 19:30 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Johns Hopkins University Museums invites its Director’s Circle members to a special talk and reception with University of Iowa Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies, Tara A. Bynum, Ph.D. Dr. Bynum, who received her Ph.D. from JHU in 2008, will discuss her recent publication Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America (2023, University of Illinois Press + New Black Studies Series). Presentation followed by light hors d’oeuvres with the author.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tara A. Bynum, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies and a scholar of early African American literary histories before 1800. She received her Ph.D. in English from the Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Political Science from Barnard College.

Her current monograph, Reading Pleasures (University of Illinois Press’ New Black Studies, fall 2022), examines the ways in which eighteenth-century enslaved and/or free men and women feel good or experience pleasure in spite of the privations of slavery, “unfreedom,” or white supremacy. It is a pleasure that isn’t beholden to social expectations or systemic oppression, but instead is experienced because of an individual’s commitment to religious faith, friendship, or community building. This work is part of a larger, ongoing project that thinks more deeply about how black communities in the early republic made and shaped the very meaning of nation-building in the greater New England area and beyond. Related essays have appeared or are forthcoming in: Early American Literature, Common-Place, Legacy, J19, Criticism, American Periodicals, and African American Literature in Transition, Vol. 1, 1750-1800.

ABOUT THE JHU MUSEUMS’ DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
Becoming a member of the Johns Hopkins University Museums is a great way to ensure you don’t miss out on all the fascinating history and exciting activities at Homewood and Evergreen. Memberships start at $50/year for individuals and $100/year for households and come with many benefits, including free admission to both museums, discounts in the museums gift shops, and free or discounted fees to many programs and events.
Becoming a member at the Fellow ($250+/year), Patron ($500+/year), or Benefactor ($1,000+/year) level unlocks even more benefits, such as invitations to biannual Director’s Circle events like this one. Membership dues provide essential support for educational programs, exhibitions, preservation, and collections conservation at both museums. To become a member, or upgrade your membership, please CLICK HERE.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in the Stacks
2023-04-24 18:30 - 19:30 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
To celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday and the 400th anniversary of the first printed collection of his works, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) is proud to present a special event, CSC In The Stacks, in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums. Staged in Evergreen Museum & Library’s historic Bakst Theatre, audiences will hear a selection of scenes and soliloquies that showcase the brilliance and power of the Bard’s most iconic plays. Whether you’re a lifelong fan of Shakespeare or a newcomer to his work, don’t miss this rare opportunity to see actors engage with the centuries-old text.

REGISTRATION
Admission for this program is free for members of the Sheridan Libraries and/or the Johns Hopkins University Museums. To become a member of the Sheridan Libraries, click here. To become a member of the Johns Hopkins University Museums, click here.

General Admission $25
JHU Faculty, Staff & Students $20
JHU Museums members FREE
Sheridan Libraries members/friends FREE

To purchase tickets, please visit https://evergreenmuseum.eventbrite.com

Book Talk: Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore By Lawrence Jackson, Ph.D.
2023-04-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE EVENT
Join Lawrence Jackson, Ph.D., for a reading and discussion of his 2022 memoir Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore, which is at once a nuanced biography of an American city and a lyrical memoir-in-essays, exploring the themes and subjects that animate Jackson’s life: the joys and responsibilities of caretaking and homeownership, the grounding structure of faith and religious tradition, Black fatherhood and the striving for upward mobility, and a wrestling with injustice and the undertow of history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lawrence Jackson, Ph.D., is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at the Johns Hopkins University and the author of the award-winning books Chester B. Himes: A Biography (W.W. Norton 2017), The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics (Princeton 2010), My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War (Chicago 2012) and Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, 1913-1952 (Wiley 2002). His most recent book is Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West (Johns Hopkins University Press 2022). He earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature at Stanford University, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the William J. Fulbright program. In addition to his writing and research, Jackson launched and now serves as director of the Billie Holiday Center for the Liberation Arts, an initiative that showcases and preserves the unique arts, history, and culture of Baltimore.

Jazz at Evergreen
2023-05-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Live, from Evergreen’s terrace, it’s an evening of hot and cool modern jazz performed by the acclaimed Peabody sextet Kenyatta and featuring narration by Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars professor and jazz scholar Anna Harwell Celenza, Ph.D. Light refreshments served.

REGISTRATION
$20 General Admission
$15 JHU Museums members (click to become a member and save!)
$15 JHU Faculty, Staff, Alumni
$10 JHU Students
Space is limited; advanced registration required.

A History of Hoes Heights
2023-05-15 11:30 - 12:30 | Gilman Hall Room 50, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Situated between Hampden and Roland Park in North Baltimore, Hoes Heights is a neighborhood with a small footprint but an important history. Jennie Chaplin, Ph.D., the 2022-2024 Slavery and Justice Curatorial Fellow for Inheritance Baltimore, will lead a discussion on the history of Hoes Heights with special guests Joanne Kent and Eleanor Matthews, descendants of Grandison Hoe, the farmer and freedman who founded the neighborhood in the 1830’s.

REGISTRATION
FREE | Space is limited; advance registration required.

JHU Museums Festival of Dogs 2023
2023-05-21 14:00 - 18:30 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE EVENT
Enjoy a fun-filled afternoon of canine competition to benefit Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library! Once home to two generations of Baltimore’s civic-minded and dog-loving Garrett family, Evergreen is delighted to host its 2nd Annual Festival of Dogs, featuring local dogs competing in 10 entertaining classes, ranging from Best Rescue and Best Treat Catcher to Best Paw Shake and Best in Show. To view images from last year’s Festival of Dogs, please CLICK HERE.

The fun continues after the Festival of Dogs with a separately ticketed Yappy Hour in Evergreen’s historic Carriage House from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Enjoy food and drink from local vendors including Peabody Heights Brewing and The Copper Kitchen, music, door prizes, and more!
Please note: Only dogs registered for the competition are permitted on the grounds during the Dog Show and Yappy Hour. All dogs must be leashed, vaccinated, and handled at all times by a person 18 years or older.

DOG SHOW CATEGORIES

Best Rescue
Best Treat Catcher
Best Golden Oldie
Best Costume
Best Owner and Dog Look Alike
Best Pooch Who Can Smooch
Best Paw Shake
Best Tail Wag
Boston Baked Beans (Boston Terrier)
Best in Show

JUDGES & EMCEE
Dana Petersen Moore, Chief Equity Officer and Director of Baltimore’s Office of Equity and Civil Rights
Kirby Fowler, President & Chief Executive Officer at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
Tracy Hopkins, MSN, RN Lead Clinical Nurse, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Chad Meyer, President & Managing Partner at Tufton Capital

TICKET INFORMATION
SPECTATORS
Please note: These tickets are only for those not participating in the competition. Spectators may not bring their dog(s).

$25/adult
$20/JHU Museums members
$20/JHU Faculty, Staff, Alumni
$10/JHU Student
$10/child (under 18)

COMPETITORS
Please note: Tickets purchased as competitors are good for one human + one dog. All dogs need to be handled at all times by adults 18+. Once you have registered, you will be emailed to sign up for your categories, send vaccination proof, and sign waivers (which must be completed before taking part).

$30/1 category
$40/2 categories
$50/3 categories

YAPPY HOUR
Please note: All humans are welcome but only competing dogs are allowed at the Yappy Hour.

$50/person

SPONSORSHIP
Thank you to our generous sponsors. Your donation supports education, interpretation, and preservation efforts at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. If interested in sponsoring this year’s Festival of Dogs, please contact Dominique Zeltzman at dzeltzman(at)jhu.edu
PREMIER SPONSORS
B. Creative Group
Copper Kitchen
Mary and Chuck Meyer
Rouge Fine Catering
Zeffert and Gold Catering
BENEFACTOR SPONSOR
Susan Adams
Beth and Mark Felder
AWARD SPONSOR
Anonymous
Bark Social
Best Friends Fur Ever
Blue Pit BBQ
HomeVets
Howl in Hampden
BUSINESS/INDIVIDUAL SPONSOR
Ann Clapp
Banjo’s Bows
Checkerspot Brewing Company
The Droolin’ Dog
Laura and Buzz Getschel
Caroline Jelavich
Leia’s Treats
Peabody Heights Brewery
Pet + ER
Smyth Jewelers
Sylvia Eggleston Wehr

A History of Houseplants Garden Party
2023-06-04 11:00 - 14:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Join Evergreen to bid a fond farewell to the current exhibition, A History of Houseplants, with a family-friendly Garden Party!
Activities will include scavenger hunts, lawn games, crafts for children of all ages, free tours of Evergreen, and one last chance to see the exhibit. Good Neighbor will be on site selling plants and plant accessories. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own picnic to enjoy on Evergreen’s front lawn. Nick Spero of the Natural History Society of Maryland also will be leading walking tours on the property where you will learn about the hidden edibles around us.
Rain or shine event.

REGISTRATION
Admission is free too children under 5 and $5 for all others. Space is limited; please register on Eventbrite.

Plein Air at Evergreen
2023-09-14 11:00 - 13:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Capture autumn’s approach on canvas at one or both sessions (September 14 & 21) of Plein Air at Evergreen. Attendees can set up their easel and document Evergreen’s stunning landscape, which boasts formal gardens with statues and a fountain, lawn areas, woods, picturesque ruins, a 19th-century carriage house, and the Italianate mansion itself.

Plein Air at Evergreen
2023-09-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Capture autumn’s approach on canvas at one or both sessions of Plein Air at Evergreen. Attendees can set up their easel and document Evergreen’s stunning landscape, which boasts formal gardens with statues and a fountain, lawn areas, woods, picturesque ruins, a 19th-century carriage house, and the Italianate mansion itself.

(Re)Valuing Black Baltimore Exhibition Opening & Talk with Christine Iko
2023-09-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Celebrate the opening of (Re)Valuing Black Baltimore at Homewood! The evening will begin with a special talk by Christine Iko, a librarian in the African American Department at the Enoch Pratt Free Library who specializes in African American history and genealogy. Afterwards, tour the exhibit, speak with the curator, and enjoy light refreshments. FREE | Space is limited, please register at homewoodmuseum.eventbrite.com

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
A native of Prince George’s County, Maryland, Christine Iko is a graduate of Temple University, where she double majored in English and African American Studies. She then earned a Master of Library Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She has been with Enoch Pratt Free Library system for 10 years, where she specializes in African American history and genealogy.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Homewood’s new exhibition explores the histories of three Black settlements in North Baltimore: Bare Hills, Cross Keys, and Hoes Heights. Drawing on historic maps, photographs, and oral histories of community members, the installation reflects upon the founders of these settlements and their descendants who faced and withstood the racial forces at play in the nation. FREE | On view during regular museum hours, Tuesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Plan your visit HERE.

Doors Open Baltimore: Homewood Museum Guided Tour
2023-10-08 11:30 - 12:30 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Johns Hopkins University Museums are offering dedicated tours as part of 2023’s Doors Open Baltimore, the citywide festival of architecture and neighborhoods hosted by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation.
A docent will lead a tour of Homewood, one of the best-surviving examples of Federal-period Palladian architecture in the nation and a National Historical Landmark. Built circa 1801 for members of Maryland’s prominent Carroll family, the house also was home to at least 25 enslaved individuals, including William and Rebecca Ross and their two children and Izadod and Cis Conner and six of their 13 children. Homewood is best experienced via our award-winning guided tour, which winds through the house’s 11 elaborately furnished rooms and tells the intertwined narratives of the Carroll, Conner, and Ross families.

Doors Open Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library Guided Tour
2023-10-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Johns Hopkins University Museums are offering dedicated tours as part of 2023’s Doors Open Baltimore, the citywide festival of architecture and neighborhoods hosted by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation.
A docent will lead a tour of Evergreen Museum & Library, a Gilded Age mansion surrounded by 26 acres of gardens, lawn, and woods in North Baltimore. The museum is home to a renowned collection of fine and decorative arts, rare books, and manuscripts assembled by two generations of Baltimore’s civic-minded Garrett family (1878-1952). Though originally constructed in 1858, Evergreen was drastically expanded and altered by the Garretts to accommodate their eclectic collections, and today is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sketching at Evergreen - Main Library
2023-10-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Evergreen Museum & Library invites artists of all ages and abilities to spend an hour sketching the Main Library at Evergreen. The library, one of the interior highlights of Evergreen, was constructed in 1928 and holds some 8,000 rare books and manuscripts on its shelves. A docent will be on hand to answer any questions about the room, the collection, and the history of the house and its inhabitants.
VISITOR INFORMATION

Supplies are not provided with purchase of ticket.
In order to protect the collection, only pencils or colored pencils can be used when sketching inside the house. Water pens are not allowed.
Due to the historical nature of the building, accessibility is limited, and some parts of the museum can only be reached via stairs.
Stools are available for the duration of the session.
Free self-guided tours of the gardens and grounds are included in admission. Full guided house tour is not included.
Free parking is available

Mediums, Magicians, and the Ouija Board: A Spiritualist History of Baltimore
2023-10-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Do spirits return, and can we communicate with the dead? Baltimore’s Spiritualists thought so, but magicians worked to disprove them. Learn about spirit mediums, the Spiritualist origins of the Ouija board, and Baltimore’s group of amateur magicians, the Demons Club from librarian Julie Saylor of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Julie Saylor has served as a library associate with Enoch Pratt Free Library for over 30 years, in many different departments at Central Library. Her current home is the Maryland Department, where she has created public programs about house history, historical cooking, land records, and the history of Spiritualism in Baltimore.

Border City, Border War: Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Baltimore
2023-11-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
In the decades before the Civil War, Baltimore sat uneasily at the center of a border slave state engaged in a border war. To commemorate the 159th anniversary of Maryland’s Emancipation Day (November 1, 1864), Homewood welcomes professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland, College Park, to talk about the antebellum enslaved experience, interstate sales, fugitivity, free Black life, colonization, and kidnapping in Baltimore between 1825 and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. His award-winning talk will reconstruct several major shifts in power, politics, and population over this critical period, as well as the fights and furies that resulted, shifting attention away from more familiar flashpoints of the sectional crisis—Nat Turner, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, and John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry—and toward a new understanding of the war before the war, as it unfolded in Maryland’s largest city.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Richard Bell has been a history professor at University of Maryland, College Park since 2006. He received his B.A. from University of Cambridge and masters and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research interests focus on American history between 1750 and 1877. He has written three books, including his most recent, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.

Music at Evergreen 2023-2024
2023-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE SERIES
Evergreen Museum & Library’s popular and eclectic Music at Evergreen concert series returns for its 70th season, presenting live performances by rising classical music stars in the museum’s stunning Bakst Theatre (pictured).
The series opens on Sunday, November 5, with a performance by harpist Noel Wan, who has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Yellow Barn Summer Festival. The series continues on February 11, with soprano Sage DeAgro and accordionist Iwo Jedynecki. DeAgro-Ruopp’s most recent roles include Johanna in Sonheim’s Sweeny Todd and Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Jedynecki is the winner of over thirty top prizes in international music competitions. The series concludes on Sunday, March 3, with the Viano Quartet, who won first prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition.
All concerts begin at 2 p.m. and are followed by a meet-and-greet reception with the performers.
Space is limited; advance tickets are required. These tickets are for ALL THREE performances. Click on the performer’s name above to purchase tickets to a single concert.

SPONSORSHIP
Music at Evergreen is made possible by the Evergreen House Foundation.

Music at Evergreen: Noël Wan, Harp
2023-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PERFORMER
Lauded as “a huge talent [with] hidden power and amazing maturity,” Taiwanese-American harpist Noël Wan made her international debut with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra in 2010. An acclaimed soloist, she has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia and has been featured at Carnegie Hall, het Muziekgebouw, Eslite Hall, and the Yellow Barn Summer Festival. Her 2023-2024 engagements include a Debut Atlantic Concert Tour and concerts presented by the Virginia Harp Center Festival, Taiwan Harp Festival, Conservatoire de musique de Montréal’s Harpenning Festival, Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, and St. John’s Elora Recital Series.
An alumna of the University of Illinois (BM, DMA) and the Yale School of Music (MM), Noël is equally comfortable in her roles as a performer, academic, and educator. She has presented her scholarly work at the American Harp Society Summer Institute and the American String Teachers Association National Conference and has contributed to Harp Column, The Collective, The American Harp Journal, and VAN Magazine. Also highly sought as a teacher, Noël has been on faculty at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, and Western University; she currently serves as Assistant Professor of Harp and Entrepreneurship at Florida State University.
The concert will be followed by a meet-and-greet reception with the artist. Space is limited space; advance tickets required.
Click here for Music at Evergreen subscription tickets.

PROGRAM (Subject to change at the artist’s discretion)
Prelude, op. 12, no. 7 Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
“Contrapunctus I” from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 J.S. Bach (1685-1750) trans. Wan
Wisdom Eye (1975) Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) arr. Wan
From the Eastern Gate (1985) Alexina Louie (b. 1949) Ceremonial Music

Haiku I

On Impermanence

Haiku II

Birds at a Mountain Temple

Haiku III

The Mandarins

INTERMISSION
Every Lover is a Warrior (2006) Kati Agócs (b. 1975) John Riley

Love is Come Again

When They Take Me For a Soldier

Julia Florida (1938) Agustín Barrios (1885-1944) trans. Wan
Légende d’après “Les Elfes” de Leconte de Lisle Henriette Renié (1875-1956)
La Madone (Lullaby), op. 43 (2009) Caroline Lizotte (b. 1969)

SPONSORSHIP
Music at Evergreen is made possible by the Evergreen House Foundation.

Sketching at Homewood - Drawing Room
2023-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Homewood Museum invites artists of all ages and abilities to spend an hour sketching the Drawing Room. This vibrant room, which is decorated to appear as it might have circa 1812, contains several collection highlights, including a period musical instruments, painted furniture, portraits of George Washington and Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and colorful reproduction wallpaper. A docent will be on hand to answer any questions about the room, the collection, and the history of the house and its inhabitants.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Supplies are not included with purchase of ticket.
In order to protect the collection, only pencils or colored pencils can be used when sketching inside the house. Water pens are not allowed.
Due to the historical nature of the building, accessibility is limited, and some parts of the museum can only be reached via stairs.
Stools are available for the duration of the session.
Full guided house tour is not included.

2023 Homewood Museum Architecture Lecture: Homewood’s Backyard with Michael Olmert
2023-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Mason Hall, 3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Homewood’s architectural footprint extended beyond the main house to include several outbuildings, most notably the still extant and recently restored brick privy. For this year’s Architecture Lecture, Michael Olmert, a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an expert on 18th-century Mid-Atlantic outbuildings, will give an illustrated lecture on the architecture of Homewood’s privy. Drawing from his highly regarded book Kitchens, Smokehouses, & Privies (Cornell University press, 2009) Olmert will discuss how Homewood’s privy compares to the outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic and explain how these well-made buildings actually functioned, their architecture, patterns of use, folklore, and even their literary presence. The talk will be followed by a reception with the speaker.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Olmert has been teaching Shakespeare and drama at the University of Maryland English Department for 37 years. He’s spoken frequently on the “The Invention of Colonial Williamsburg.” He’s written The Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg (CWF, 1986-2016), The Smithsonian Book of Books (Smithsonian Institution, 1992), Milton’s Teeth & Ovid’s Umbrella (Simon & Schuster, 1996). His television writing has won three Primetime Emmys. He’s written 80 TV docs, as well as five books, seven plays, three feature films, an IMAX film, and over 200 articles, essays, and reviews. In 2005, he was inducted into the University of Maryland Alumni Hall of Fame.

SPONSORSHIP
Sponsorship of this lecture supports program costs and Homewood Museum’s Architectural Preservation Fund, which is used to maintain and improve the historic building. The current priority for the fund’s resources is restoration of Homewood’s north entrance stairs. Thank you to this year’s generous sponsors! If interested in becoming a supporter, please contact Dominique Zeltzman, Associate Director of Development for the JHU Museums, at dzeltzman@jhu.edu.

Premier

Henry Dugan and Caroline Griffin

Benefactor
C&H Restoration and Renovation

Forbes and Sara Maner
Eileen Perkins

Patron
Delbert Adams Construction Group

Lewis Contractors

Libby and Tim Naylor
Vincent Greene Architects

Fellow
Anonymous
Carroll Family Member
Mary and Greg Pinkard
SM + P Architects

Holiday Makers' Market
2023-11-18 11:00 - 15:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Support local makers and get a head start on your holiday shopping at Evergreen’s Holiday Makers’ Market! This year’s market features a variety of locally made products including small batch coffee, jewelry, men’s grooming products, stationery, artwork, home decor, and much more.

PARTICIPATING VENDORS
(Subject to change)
Evergreen Museum & Library Gift Shop
Dear Globe Coffee Roasters
Five O Clock Co
Keppel & Kismet
Namascents
Niro Designs
The Pot Guy
Tigerlilly

VISITOR INFORMATION

Free parking available
Free self-guided tour of the gardens and grounds is included
Free admission to Art Glass at Evergreen included

Some Enchanted Evergreen
2023-12-09 11:00 - 14:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Tour Evergreen outfitted for the holidays! Guests can make their own Evergreen-inspired ornaments, take advantage of sales in the museum’s Gift Shop, listen to live music, and enjoy festive treats.
VISITOR INFORMATION

Due to the historical nature of the building, accessibility is limited, and some parts of the museum can only be reached via stairs.
Free parking is available

SPONSORSHIP
This event is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org)

Homewood for the Holidays
2023-12-10 11:00 - 14:00 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Celebrate the season with Homewood! Tour the house’s decked halls and period rooms, hear live harp music, enjoy holiday goodies, and browse a special holiday market featuring local businesses. Vendors will include: Ashmo Jewelry and Accessories, Presence & Grace, Tigerlillyshop, Peanutbutter & Jesse, Naughty Naturals, and Yeht Co. Advance registration required: http://homewoodmuseum.eventbrite.com.
VISITOR INFORMATION

Due to the historical nature of the building, accessibility is limited, and many parts of the museum can only be reached via stairs.
Limited free parking is available. For more information on parking options at Homewood, click here.

SPONSORSHIP
This event is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org)

Free Admission February
2024-02-01 - 2024-02-29 | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
In honor of Black History Month, Homewood welcomes all visitors, free of charge, during the month of February. On a docent-led or self-guided tour, visitors can see the house’s period rooms and learn about the lives of Homewood’s first inhabitants, both free and enslaved.

HOURS
Access to the museum requires taking either a docent-led tour or a self-guided tour. Docent-led tours of Homewood are available Wednesday-Sunday from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., beginning on the half hour and last approximately 60 minutes. Self-guided tours are available depending upon staffing and have entry windows. To confirm daily tour availability, please call the museum at 410-516-5589.

Unwrapping Chocolate Secrets
2024-02-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Learn all there is to know about chocolate, and then taste test some delicious samples! Learn about cacao, the fruit from which chocolate is made, how it was processed from the pre-industrial days to the modern-day, and how the the numerous variables in cultivation and processing effect chocolate’s taste, texture, and appearance. At each step in this chocolate discovery, participants will be given a wide assortment of samples to taste such as cacao nibs, 18th-century style spiced chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, and a variety of dark chocolates made from different types of cacao.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joyce M. White is a food historian. She began in college in the late 1980s when she was a museum education intern at the Geneva Historical Society/Rose Hill Mansion in the Finger Lakes region of New York. She has a B.A. from William Smith College, an M.A. in American Studies from Penn State University, and has studied food history with leaders in the field at various historic sites in England and the U.S.

REGISTRATION

General Admission
$25.00

Friends of the JHU Museums
$20.00

J-Card Holders
$20.00

Please register HERE

Music at Evergreen: Sage DeAgro-Ruopp, soprano & Iwo Jedynecki, accordion
2024-02-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

A native of northern Michigan, DeAgro-Ruopp holds a performance diploma from the Oberlin Conservatory, as well as a bachelor’s and master’s from the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Mark Schnaible. Her most recent roles include Johanna from Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Rosina from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Outside of conventional operatic practices, she enjoys collaboration and involvement with contemporary composers and musicians, as well as composing for dance. Recently, she performed with Koresh Dance Company to rave reviews in their show Masquerade, where she composed the entirety of the score and sang her works live.
Classical accordionist Iwo Jedynecki is the winner of top prizes at over thirty international music competitions, and has performed in throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. He regularly collaborates and performs with other aritsts, including pianist Aleksander Krzyżanowski, accordionist Hubert Giziewski, and in a duo with Karolina Mikołajczyk, where a video of one of his violin-accordion transcriptions gained more than a million combined views on Facebook and YouTube. He received his doctoral degree in 2022 from The Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music Bydgoszcz in his native Poland. Upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship this past fall, he began his studies as the first ever classical accordion Artist Diploma student at New York University.
The performance will be followed by a meet-and-greet reception with the artists. Space is limited space; advance tickets required.
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SPONSORSHIP
Music at Evergreen is made possible by the Evergreen House Foundation.

Music at Evergreen: Viano Quartet
2024-03-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Praised for their “virtuosity, visceral expression, and rare unity of intention” (Boston Globe), the Viano Quartet are one of the most sought-after performing young ensembles today. Since winning First Prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, they have traveled to nearly every major city across the globe, captivating audiences in New York, London, Berlin, Vancouver, Paris, Beijing, Toronto, Lucerne, and Los Angeles.
The quartet is currently in-residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program from 2024-2027 and the Music in the Morning series in Vancouver until 2025, where their focus will be to commission new works and lead extensive community engagement initiatives. Previous residencies include the Curtis Institute, Colburn Conservatory, Northern Michigan University, and Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.
The performance will be followed by a meet-and-greet reception with the artists. Space is limited; advance tickets required.
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CONCERT PROGRAM*
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”
Florence Price: “Andante moderato” from String Quartet No. 1 in G major
Krzysztof Penderecki: String Quartet No. 3 “Leaves of an Unwritten Diary”
INTERMISSION
Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor “From My Life”
*program is subject to change at the artist’s discretion.

SPONSORSHIP
Music at Evergreen is made possible by the Evergreen House Foundation.
