Start your day with art with our new and combined programs! Once a month, our youngest patrons are invited to the Jepson Center for story time, a special tour, and an art activity.
Join us for our annual spring member engagement event to celebrate the opening of 'BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art' with delectable treats, music, and of course, contemporary art.
Join us in the Richard & Judy Eckburg Atrium for a complimentary cocktail reception with light hors d’œuvres to meet current Director’s Circle members and learn more! Our speaker will be Raissa Bretaña, a New York City-based fashion historian. In her talk, Fashioning Frida, Bretaña will ponder the deliberate clothing choices of the ever-popular artist Frida Kahlo.
Start your day with art with our new and combined programs! Once a month, our youngest patrons are invited to the Jepson Center for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here.
Dr. Dorsey will discuss how Black men and women of the Georgia low country successfully met the challenge of beginning life as freed people in the wake of the American Civil War. In analyzing their actions, the story of first freedom explores the true meaning of liberty as understood by the newly emancipated.
June 17 at 6pm–8pm
Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
Join us at the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters for a special program led by Vaughnette Goode-Walker and Jamal Toure in celebration of Juneteenth followed by tours of the site. Storytelling sessions begin at 6:00pm and 7:00pm followed by tours at 6:30pm and 7:30pm.
Juneteenth Family Day at the Jepson Center returns with a libation ceremony, drumming and an appearance by the African Spirit at 1pm. From 1-4pm, the museum will offer hands on art making activities for families as well as artist demonstrations of Gullah/Geechee basket making by Gregory Grant and dollmaking by artist Theresa Martin.
