Smithsonian Events - One Time

Heighten your civic awareness through conversations about art, history and material culture. In this program, educators from the National Portrait Gallery will partner with colleagues from across the Smithsonian to discuss how historical objects from their respective collections speak to today’s social justice issues.
Together with our co-hosts from the Anacostia Community Museum, we will explore the questions, what does a perfect world look like and how does one let go of practical hurdles to dream? Using two artworks by self-taught artists, Mary Proctor entitled Equal and Morgan Monceaux's work of artist/musician Sun Ra, we will discuss how creativity is used to reach an awe-inspiring goal to catalyze change.