Please Note: All galleries will be closed from May 7 though July 29 for renovation. The administrative offices, archives and library will remain open.

Neighborhood Palette and Citified

Now - August 5, 2012
Main Gallery

On view are the last two installations in the exhibition series Call and Response: Creativity and Community, highlighting creative expressions through such varied media as video, film, performance, dance, and roller-blading:

• Neighborhood Palette: Learn about the history of east-of-the-river public art by the Albus Cavus public design collective.
• Citified: Revel in the creativity in everyday life. This installation organized by the museum includes an exploration of the art of tattooing with CoCo and Vonnie Bayron of Nu Flava Ink Tattoo shop.

Call and Response: Creativity and Community is a multipart exhibition that explores artists and their visions as they draw upon the cultural expression found in schools, churches, community organizations, and other venues in the public sphere.

Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in the District of Columbia

Permanent Exhibit
Program Room

Please Note: This room and museum galleries temporarily closed from May 7 through July 29, 2012, for renovation and will reopen July 30, 2012. Programming will be held at other venues in the Washington, D.C., area.

After a recent successful run at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., a condensed version of this popular exhibition is on view at the museum. From Reconstruction to the second half of the 20th century, baseball, the great American pastime, was played in Washington, D.C., on segregated fields. This exhibition looks at the phenomenal popularity and community draw of this sport when played by African Americans. Featured are such personalities as Josh Gibson and "Buck" Leonard, star players of the Negro Leagues most celebrated team, the Washington Homestead Grays. The show also highlights community teams that gave rise to the various amateur, collegiate, and semi-pro black baseball teams and leagues.