| DROP-IN ART MAKING Saturday, February 11 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Art Studio Enjoy your visit to the museum, and explore your artistic side with a coloring and pop-up diorama activity inspired by collection items and early Black history in Albany. The activity, using early paintings of Albany by James Eights, explores the depiction of Black women included in these scenes and pulls from historic records to educate about influential Black women of that time, including Dinah Jackson. Included with admission! |
| LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE Sunday, February 12 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Rice House Join us for our Library Open House, as we view and discuss historic documents, broadsides, photos, and records from our collection that feature the history of African Americans in Albany, N.Y over the past three hundred years! Staff of the Albany African American History Project will be available to answer questions and present the stories of items in our collection. Advance registration is not required. Please drop in! Included with admission! |
| LECTURE | African American History in the Collection Sunday, February 12 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Key Cultural Center Join us for a presentation on African American resources held in the library collections at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Presentations will be delivered by staff Tricia Barbagallo and Marissa Brown, both on the research team of the Albany African American History Project at AIHA. Advance registration is not required, but capacity is limited. Included with admission! |
