This Week: Collection Connections at The Walters celebrates female leadership in conservation, Arts Every Day Cocktails and Conversation at The Peale, Dr. Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson lectures at The Lewis Museum, Xavier Hardison, BlissArmyKnife, and Jennifer McBrien opening reception at Bromo, MICA Curatorial Practice exhibition opening at Eubie Blake, Rosa Leff and Kelly Walter opening reception at Creative Alliance, Joyce J. Scott Community Day at The BMA, and AVAM’s Logan Visionary Conference — PLUS Grit Fund deadline and more featured opportunities!
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Collection Connection: Conservation and Technical Research Celebrates a Milestone: Exploring Almost 75 Years of Female Leadership
Wednesday, March 20 :: 12:30-1pm
@ The Walters Art Museum
Location: Virtual
Registration required
In this presentation, Julie Lauffenburger, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of Conservation, Collections and Technical Research, will be in conversation with Terry Drayman-Weisser, Conservator Emerita, former Director of Conservation and Technical Research, to reflect on the 90th anniversary of the department, and its almost 75 years of pioneering female leadership.
Collection Connections is a series of onsite and virtual behind-the-scenes experiences with the Walters collection for supporters of the museum. Registration is required as space is limited. Look for additional details about upcoming events on the web and in your inbox.
Cocktails & Conversation: A closer look at Arts Every Day and the 10X10 Exhibit
Thursday, March 21 :: 5-7pm
@ The Peale
Join Arts Every Day at The Peale Museum on Thursday, March 21st from 5-7pm to gain exclusive insight into the organization and hear from 10X10 Exhibit curators while viewing over 300 works of art from Baltimore City Public School students.
Helena Hicks Speaker Series | Women’s History Month – Dr. Raynetta Wiggins Jackson
Thursday, March 21 :: 5:45-8pm
@ The Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Helena Hicks Speaker Series | Women’s History Month – Dr. Raynetta Wiggins Jackson
Thursday, March 21 | 5:45 pm to 8 pm | FREE EVENT
Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Billie Holiday Center for Liberations Arts (JHU) for their annual Helena Hicks Speaker Series featuring Dr. Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, the Africana Archives Curatorial Fellow of Inheritance Baltimore & Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts. Dr. Wiggins-Jackson’s lecture will focus on “Ethel’s Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz.” Her lecture grows out of her curatorial and exhibition work on the legendary jazz singer Ethel Ennis.
Raynetta Wiggins Jackson, PhD, is the Curatorial Fellow for Africana Collections, an interdisciplinary postdoctoral position situated between the Sheridan Libraries and the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. In addition to serving as the lead curator for Ethel’s Place, she has contributed to two other ground-breaking exhibitions this year, The Colors of Pontella Mason at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, and The Birth of Jazz: Billie Holiday’s Baltimore, a portable exhibition co-curated with Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence P. Jackson. Prior to assuming her current role, Dr. Wiggins Jackson was a manager of gospel programs at Washington Performing Arts and served as a graduate assistant at the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University, where in addition to archival and curatorial work, she also organized the conference Why We Sing: Indianapolis Gospel Music in Church, Community and Industry.
This event begins with a wine reception and the Peabody Graduate Jazz Ensemble at 5:45 pm and Dr. Raynetta Wigins-Jackson’s lecture will begin at 6:30 pm. The Helena Hicks Speaker Series honors Helena Hicks, the foremother of the student-led movement for Civil Rights in Baltimore City.
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