Juneteenth Celebration @ the Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Celebrate Juneteenth this year at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum by looking towards the future. Visitors can learn about the origins of Juneteenth while enjoying musical performances by the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Benny Russell Big Band and actor and vocalist Keith Snipes.  Commemorate the holiday by creating a time capsule  with Culture Queen and sharing your memories in our Time Capsule Video Booth. Join us as we salute Maryland high school student artists and their works in the Black Futures, Black Imagining High School Juried Art Show with an artist talk by Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined exhibition artist Monica Ikegwu. Then, examined how 19th-century Black freedom fighters reimagined a free Black society with scholars Dr. Daniel J. Broyld of University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Angela T. Tate of National Museum of African American History & Culture. Enjoy Juneteenth-inspired refreshments in Slemmers Alley. Highlight Tours of our exhibition galleries will be provided.