Local award-winning teacher, choreographer and dancer, Tiffany Quinn hosts an afternoon of Black dance with two DMV dance ensembles. In person and online.
Join us weekly for a virtual creative writing hour. We’ve set up an online space where writers can create, connect and draw inspiration from the Portrait Gallery’s collection.
Enjoy weekly art workshops from the comfort of your own home. Each Friday, we will post a video with a new activity or technique. Grab a family member or your roommates, or make a virtual date with a friend, and get creative with artist Jill Galloway. Artists of all ages and skill levels will enjoy […]
Celebrate the release of Operation Sisterhood with the author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich in conversation with Meg Medina; moderated by Julia Torres. Books will be available for purchase for those who attend in person, but you can also order one online and watch digitally.
Joseph Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will discuss the American Revolution, how "the Founders" formed a new nation, and the cost of winning independence.
Now virtual: Hear from author (and associate professor) Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, who wrote Living Queer History—about Roanoke's LGBTQ community. Rosenthal's book weaves together analysis, theory, and memoir along with insight from more than four dozen interviews done with LGBTQ elders. The author will chat with Dr. Aleia M. Brown, the National Women’s History Museum’s vice […]
The National Museum of Women in the Arts kicks off its 2022 "talk show" with Alexandra Libby, PhD, associate curator of northern baroque paintings at the NGA. Libby, along with […]
The staff of NMWA invites you to celebrate Edmonia Lewis over cocktails and mocktails.
Together with Kindred Stories, Loyalty Books celebrates Zora Neale Hurston's newly released boxed set—with reimagined covers by Black artists—and the release You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays.. Author Morgan Jerkins moderates a conversation between Lucy Ann Hurston, a scholar and the niece of Zora Neale Hurston; Genevieve West, co-editor of You Don't Know […]
Local author Chantal James will discuss her debut, contemporary fiction, novel, None But the Righteous, with Deesha Philyaw, whose debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won numerous awards and is currently being adapted for HBO Max with executive producer Tessa Thompson. This event is virtual.
The author of Yellow Wife, released in paperback Dec. 28, discusses her book inspired by the real life of Mary Lumpkin.
New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, author of Led Zeppelin: The Biography, sits down with the Smithsonian to discuss the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin—50 years since “Stairway to Heaven” was released. Spitz will detail how London boys Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones united with Robert Plant and John Bonham to become the […]
