Election Night Viewing Party November 5, 2024 |  7 pm to 10 pm | FREE Join us for an Election Night Viewing Party on November 5th at 7 PM! 🗳️🎉 Grab your friends and watch the results roll in with us—live coverage, great company, and an evening of civic engagement. Don’t miss it!

iWitness Media DJ Youth Workshop: B.E. M.O.R.E. S.T.E.M. with Kendrick “DJ5Starr” Tilghman November 16, 2024 |  10:30 am to 11:30 am | Museum Admission  Do you want to learn more about the science and technology used by DJs to spin records? Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum with Kendrick “DJ 5Starr” Tilghman as he engages […]

Fabric, Paint & Sip with Aliana Grace Bailey November 16, 2024 | 2 pm | Museum Admission Spend the afternoon expressing your inner creative self by  dabbling with paint, fabric  and patterns. Inspired by the exhibition artworks from Danny Simmons: The Journey to Everything  you’ll create a Neo - African abstract mixed media painting. Participants […]

Kid Zone Public Scoping Engagement Meeting Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 6pm  | FREE This new children’s exhibit space will welcome young visitors (toddler through pre-teen) and enhance their knowledge of and appreciation for the artistic and cultural contributions of Maryland’s African Americans.  The 672 square foot space will be designed to support engagement opportunities for […]

Artist Conversation: Frederick Douglass | Liberty  Saturday, November 23 | 12pm Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for an artist conversation on their latest art installation, Frederick Douglass| Liberty with artist, Adam Himoff and historian, Dr. Noelle Trent. Frederick Douglass | Liberty is a modernized reimagining of the American abolitionist, writer, orator, and statesman Frederick […]

The Journey to Everything: A Spoken Word Poetry Event with Lady Brion and Friends Friday, December 6th | Doors Open at 6:30pm | 7 pm - 9 pm Experience a night of poetry with a host of community poets using their craft as wordsmiths to express their personal and ongoing experiences living life to the […]

Art Workshop: Cookies and Canvas for Kids Saturday, December 7th | 12pm Nibble on cookies and candy while painting your own Candy Land canvas masterpiece inspired by the exhibition artworks from Danny Simmons: The Journey to Everything. Participants will have a fun time experimenting with paint on canvas with visual artist Reginald Lewis.  Workshop Class […]

Holidays at The Lewis Saturday, December 21 | 11 am - 3 pm Celebrate the upcoming holidays this month to include Christmas and Kwanzaa activities  at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.  Festivities will include  a Kwanzaa candle lighting ceremony with  African dancing and drumming with Sankofa Dance Theater, choral singing by the Singing Sensations Youth […]

KING DAY 2025 | An Era of Creative Maladjustment January 20 | 11 am - 4pm | FREE “There are some things in our society, some things in our world, to which we should never be adjusted.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrate KING DAY 2025 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum as we […]

Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Water’s Edge - Black Watermen of the Chesapeake Saturday, February 1 | 2:30 pm  Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and The Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET)  to celebrate ASALH 2025 Black History Theme (African Americans and Labor) with a film screening and panel discussion on Maryland’s Black […]