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Annual High School Juried Art Show 2024
Light the Lantern
Maryland students are invited to submit artwork for the annual Reginald F. Lewis Museum High School Juried Art Show. This year’s art show theme is inspired by the museum program theme and upcoming exhibition for 2024:
- Light the Lantern (Winter- Spring 2024) honors the contributions, brilliance, and innovation of Black artists, thinkers and creatives.
- Black. Women. Genius (February 1, 2024 – September 30, 2024) in partnership with the Baltimore Museum of Art, celebrates Elizabeth Talford Scott and her legacy as a fiber artist.
Students are tasked to create artwork that honors the contributions, brilliance and innovations of Black artists, thinkers and creatives. Grades 10 – 12 can submit drawings, photos, paintings, prints and mixed-media assemblages.
Selected works will be exhibited at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum May 2024 – September 2024. The deadline for students to register is Thursday, December 7th, 2023. Students and/or teachers should electronically submit a jpg image of the student’s artwork by Wednesday, January 31, 2024 for judging. This student exhibition is in partnership with the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA). For further details contact terry.taylor@lewismsueum.org.
To Register Click Here. Click HERE for Guidelines.
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Upcoming Events
Check out our upcoming museum events for youth and families throughout the year. Contact terry.taylor@lewismuseum.org for more information.
Reading the Culture Children Story and Art Hour
Saturday, November 11th, 2023 | 11am – Noon
Free with Museum Admission.
Enjoy a story learning how Jacob Lawrence began his dream of becoming an artist in Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem. Jake Makes a World follows the creative adventures of the young Jacob Lawrence as he finds inspiration in the vibrant colors and characters of his community in Harlem. Participants will check out one of Jacob Lawrence’s works in Vision & Spirit: African American Art: Works from Bank of America Collections. Then they will create their own inspired collage of their neighborhood.
In Conjunction with Vision & Spirit: African American Art Works from Bank of America Collection.
Save The Date – African American Children’s Book Fair Festival 2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024 | 11 am – 3 pm
Join us this Black History Month for the return of the annual African American Children’s Book Fair Festival. Children and families can enjoy a fun-filled day focused on kids’ literature about African Americans and other people of color. Meet some of your favorite children’s/YA authors and illustrators while purchasing hard-to-find titles in the Book Village. Enjoy author readings, illustration workshops, live performances, and art activities.
The Annual African American Children’s Book Fair strives to connect families to high quality books about and for African American children as well as other multicultural populations. We aim to foster a love of reading for families by connecting them with renown and up and coming creators of children’s books.
Children/YA authors and illustrators interested in participating in the upcoming Book Fair Festival can contact terry.taylor@lewismuseum.org for more information.
FREE Event. Link to Register Coming Soon!