EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Freedom Schools
July 27 to September 21 and October 26 to December 28, 2024
The African American Museum is launching two sessions of “Freedom Schools” from July to September and October to December, 2024.
The Freedom Schools at the African American Museum are inspired by the “Freedom Schools” taught during the Freedom Summer Project sponsored by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi in in 1964. SNCC’s “Freedom Schools” focused on the teaching of Black History and preparing African Americans to vote in the Mississippi Democratic Party’s primary in the summer of 1964.
The weekly sessions will be taught by two of the Museum’s distinguished staff members and a guest educator. Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, the museum’s deputy director and chief operations officer, is a former UT-Arlington history department chair and African American studies professor. He is also the national president of ASALH. Robert Edison, the museum’s curator of education, is a Dallas ISD teacher of the year and Fulbright Scholar. Anthony Guillory holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies from the University of Massachusetts and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UT-Arlington.
THE SCIENCE OF ART SUMMER CAMP
May 28th - June 28th, 2024 – 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
The Science of Arts Summer Camp at the African American Museum will engage students in the creation of art projects through the lens of science, problem solving, and research of African and African American history.
One six week comprehensive camp period will be offered by the museum. To guarantee maximum and high quality learning, enrollment will be limited to 50 students. Students will develop skills that support their academic growth and learning goals such as team building, strategic thinking, project planning and execution. Three central objectives of The Science of Art Camp are:
1) To provide an environment where young people can discover and utilize the resources and collections at the African American Museum
2) To connect the imbedded principles of science, technology and art to cultural identity and expression
3) To create and launch the Science of Art blog to interact with their peers throughout the Diaspora providing information, art work, original stories and news about their work that connects them to young scholars and artists worldwide.
Ages 8-15 . Scholarships available.