January to March 2020 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PROGRAMS EXHIBITION OPENINGS JANUARY January 15 to April 18 Roberto Burle Marx painting in the BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND loggia of his home, 1980s, from the exhibition The Living Art of CULTURAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA, Roberto Burle Marx at the Tucson Richmond, VA Botanical Gardens. Courtesy, New Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: York Botanical Gardens. Credit, ClausMeyer/Tyba. www.nybg.org Paradox of Liberty Traveling. Organized by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. home.monticello.org January 18 to April 19 OMAHA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, Omaha, NE America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far Traveling. Organized by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. cmom.org February 22 to May 17 January 18 to June 30 MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF NEH ON THE ROAD ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER, ART, Memphis, TN Atlanta, GA Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Black Citizenship in the Age of NEH on the Road is an initiative of the Traveling. Organized by the Crystal Bridges Jim Crow Division of Public Programs—in cooperation Museum of American Art. crystalbridges.org Traveling. Organized by the New-York with Mid-America Arts Alliance—to extend Historical Society. www.nyhistory.org the reach of NEH-funded, large-scale February 9 to May 17 exhibitions. Smaller versions of these January 24 to May 31 LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF exhibitions, supported by specially designed TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS, ART, Los Angeles, CA education guides and program materials, travel to institutions in underserved areas of Tucson, AZ Where the Truth Lies: The Art of the country. Please contact the Mid-America The Living Art of Roberto Qiu Ying Arts Alliance if you would like to host any of Temporary. www.lacma.org these exhibitions. Additional NEH on the Road Burle Marx exhibits are listed under the Ongoing Traveling. Organized by the New York Exhibitions and Websites Section. Botanical Garden. www.nybg.org MARCH www.nehontheroad.org. March 30 FEBRUARY PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM®, January 28 to March 16 February Philadelphia, PA MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM OF ART, PRATT MUSEUM, Homer, AK Centennial Innovations Gallery Kachemak Bay, Alaska: Long-term. www.pleasetouchmuseum.org Shawnee, OK An Exploration of People Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art of the and Place Long-term. Organized by the Pratt Museum. Northeast of Brazil www.prattmuseum.org Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized by Con/Vida - Popular Arts of the Americas. January 28 to March 16 The Art of Flourishing: MAINE STATE MUSEUM, NORDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM, Conversations on Disability and Augusta, ME Seattle, WA Technology At Home in Maine Jacob A. Riis and His January to March Long-term. mainestatemuseum.org Photographs: Revealing New Public discussions programs organized by the Hastings Center. www.thehastingscenter.org MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, York’s Other Half Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized The Warrior Chorus: American Portland, ME by the Museum of the City of New York. Maine Memory Network Odyssey Website. www.mainememory.net January 28 to March 16 January to March LAKE WALES MUSEUM, Lake Public Discussion programs organized by the Aquila Theatre Company, Inc. MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL, Wales, FL www.aquilatheatre.com Portland, ME Spirited: Prohibition in America Local and Legendary: Maine in Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized by the National Constitution Center. the Civil War Website. civilwar.mainememory.net January 28 to March 16 BROADCASTS ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART, Jonesboro, AR Portland, ME For All The World To See: Visual JANUARY Fine and Decorative Culture and the Struggle for January (Discovery Channel) Arts Collections Reinstallation. www.portlandmuseum.org Civil Rights Who Will Write Our History Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Directed, written, and produced by by the University of Maryland, Baltimore Roberta Grossman. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, County. whowillwriteourhistory.com Baltimore, MD The American Wing February 10 to April 1 Reinstallation. www.artbma.org WASILLA MUSEUM AND VISITOR CENTER, Wasilla, AK ONGOING EXHIBITIONS BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, The Power of Children: Making Baltimore, MD a Difference AND WEBSITES African Art Collection Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Reinstallation. www.artbma.org by the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY, EAST Baltimore, MD MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM, The Kids’ Cannery PROGRAMS AND Mystic, CT Long-term. www.thebmi.org Voyaging in the Wake of the EVENTS BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY, Whalers: The 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan Baltimore, MD Long-term. www.mysticseaport.org Garment Loft Literature and Medicine: Long-term. www.thebmi.org Humanities at the Heart of NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM, JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND, Health Care Washington, DC January to March House and Home Baltimore, MD Reading and discussion programs organized Long-term. www.nbm.org Scrap Yard: Innovators by the Maine Humanities Council. of Recycling mainehumanities.org OLDIERS OME Closes April 26. S ’ H , Washington, DC President Lincoln’s Cottage at Traveling. jewishmuseummd.org Oregon Humanities Community the Soldiers’ Home Conversations 2017–2020 WALTERS ART MUSEUM, January to March Long-term. Organized by the National Trust Discussion programs organized by the Oregon for Historic Preservation. Baltimore, MD Council for the Humanities. www.lincolncottage.org Medieval Collection www.oregonhumanities.org Reinstallation. www.thewalters.org 2 Left: Sol Bahia, Os Sem Terra, The Movement of the Landless, Acrylic painting, 23 x 31”, 2002. Right: Amaro Francisco Borges, Por Cause de Fome e Sede, Deixei Meu Nordeste/Because of Hunger and Thirst, I Left my Northeast. Woodblock Print, 19x26”, n.d. Both from the traveling NEH on the Road exhibition Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints—Popular Art from the Northeast of Brazil. Courtesy, Con/Vida - Popular Arts of the Americas. www.nehontheroad.org WALTERS ART MUSEUM, USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM, POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL Baltimore, MD Boston, MA ASSOCIATION, Deerfield, MA Egyptian Collection All Hands on Deck: A Sailor’s Raid on Deerfield: The Many Reinstallation. www.thewalters.org Life in 1812 Stories of 1704 Long-term. www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org Website. 1704.deerfield.history.museum ST. MARY’S CITY, VAN SWERINGEN SITE, St. Mary’s City, MD HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MARTHA’S VINEYARD MUSEUM, Van Sweringen Cambridge, MA Edgartown, MA Archaeological Site DoHistory Enchanted Isle: The Story of Site interpretation. Organized by Historic St. Website. www.dohistory.org Martha’s Vineyard Mary’s City Commission. Long-term. www.stmaryscity.org MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, www.mvmuseum.org/permanent.php# Cambridge, MA enchantedisle BOSTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, Mount Auburn Cemetery: Boston, MA MARTHA’S VINEYARD MUSEUM, A New American Landscpe Boston Black: A City Connects Long-term. www.mountauburn.org Edgartown, MA Long-term. www.bostonkids.org Laura Jernegan: Girl on CONCORD MUSEUM, Concord, MA a Whaleship COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM, “Why Concord?” The History of Website. www.girlonawhaleship.org Boston, MA Concord, Massachusetts OLYOKE ERITAGE TATE ARK Our Common Wealth: Long-term. www.concordmuseum.org H H S P , The Massachusetts CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AT Experiment in Democracy POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL HOLYOKE, WISTARIAHURST Long-term. Organized by the Friends of the ASSOCIATION, Deerfield, MA MUSEUM, Holyoke, MA Commonwealth Museum. www.sec.state.ma.us Impressions from a Lost World Creating Holyoke: Immigrants’ Website. www.dinotracksdiscovery.org and Migrants’ Search for Community Site interpretation. Organized by the Wistariahurst Museum/City of Holyoke. www.creatingholyoke.org 3 ARNOLD ARBORETUM OF STRAWBERY BANKE, EMPIRE STORES MUSEUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Portsmouth, NH Brooklyn, NY Jamaica Plain, MA Becoming Americans: The Waterfront at Brooklyn Science in the Pleasure Shapiro Story, 1898–1928 Historical Society DUMBO Ground: An Exploration of Long-term. www.strawberybanke.org Long-term. Organized by the Brooklyn Historical Society. www.brooklynhistory.org Arboretum History EWARK USEUM Long-term. www.arboretum.harvard.edu N M , Newark, NJ HOMAS OLE ATIONAL Picturing America T C N NEW BEDFORD WHALING Reinstallation. www.newarkmuseum.org HISTORIC SITE, Catskill, NY MUSEUM, New Bedford, MA A Guest in the Home NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM, Long-term. www.thomascole.org From Pursuit to Preservation: Albany, NY The Global Story of Whales A Mohawk-Iroquois Village THOMAS COLE NATIONAL and Whaling Long-term. www.nysm.nysed.gov HISTORIC SITE, Catskill, NY Long-term. www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/ The Home and Studio of Thomas exhibitions/current/pursuit-to-preservation BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, Cole, Founder of the Hudson Brooklyn, NY River School of Art HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE, World Brooklyn Long-term. www.thomascole.org Pittsfield, MA Long-term. www.brooklynkids.org Audio Tour THOMAS COLE NATIONAL Site interpretation. BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HISTORIC SITE, Catskill, NY www.hancockshakervillage.org Brooklyn, NY Hudson River School Art Trail Taking Care of Brooklyn: Website. www.hudsonriverschool.org PLIMOTH PLANTATION, Stories of Sickness and Health Plymouth, MA Long-term. www.brooklynhistory.org SQUIRE FAMILY FOUNDATION, Along the Shores of Change East Northport, NY Site interpretation. www.plimoth.org BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Wireless Philosophy Brooklyn, NY Website. www.wi-phi.com SPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL Waterfront Exhibition: COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Water Log and Visitor Vistas AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL