National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution

September 21, 2019
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Silver Spring Civic Plaza
1 Veterans Place
Silver Spring, Md. 20910

Teaching Africa Day brings educators, students, and families together to learn more Africa and her rich cultures. Enjoy a day of stories, educational games, crafts, and African embassy stations highlighting the different nations of Africa.

Presented in collaboration with the Africa Memory Game, Howard University Center for Africa Studies, Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA), Tutu’s Books, Kuumba Kids, and YehieEl Design.

Free and open to the public

September 28, 2019
11 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Join us to celebrate Africa’s cultural heritage—authors talk, presentations, and tours of the exhibition I Am . . . Contemporary Women Artists of Africa.

We are excited to announce a major project the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, is starting: In support of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, we will be digitizing and describing 14 collections created by women photographers in Africa!

All of the women photographers were trailblazers in their respective fields and professions – art, anthropology, architecture, art history, geography, photojournalism, travel – and used photography as a tool for documentation, ethnographic field research, or ‘salvage photography’ to produce fleeting glimpses of what were perceived as rapidly ‘vanishing’ cultures and ways of life.

These women exercised different cultural and social sensitivities when it came to photographing indigenous peoples in local and domestic settings. Learn more about the project at SI.com