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Open today: 10am-5pm

When

Saturday, November 7, 2026

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Where

Main Building,
Great Stair Hall

Tickets

Reservation required. Museum admission included.

Membership

Reservation required. Museum admission included.

Join P. Gabrielle Foreman in A Nation of Artists to learn about how Black visual and literary arts intersect and inspire each other. Explore these overlapping cultural arenas as we consider art objects that include clay vessels made by an enslaved master potter and poet as well as paintings that depict famous writers and writing more than a century later. In this "Tour for 250", "Black Writing and Writers in American Art”, Foreman will facilitate a lively discussion about how print appears in African American art as we stop to spend time with material objects and visual subjects whose value and mastery have been acclaimed and celebrated; and with those that, for a time, had been diminished or dismissed.

Things to Know:

  • Registration is required.
  • Headsets to hear the speaker will be provided.
  • This “Tour for 250” is being offered on Saturday, November 7, and Friday, December 4, 2026.

Questions or accommodation requests? Email [email protected].

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