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Local Arts Hero: Sandy Spring Slave Museum and Art Gallery

Weekly since 2020, BCDC has showcased a Local Arts Hero that’s keeping the lights on in a challenging moment. This week the we’ve chosen the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and Art Gallery!

Located on a one-acre campus about 45 minutes north of DC, the Sandy Spring Slave Museum was founded in 1988 by Dr. Winston Anderson ’66 PhD, who went on to chair Howard University’s Zoology department and still serves as the museum’s curator. Today, it features a cross-section of a slaving Clipper ship, a slavery-era log cabin, an arts pavilion and Great Hall housing exhibits. In addition to welcoming the general public to learn about African-American history from the Middle Passage to the present, the museum offers a customizable curriculum for visits by K-12 school groups.

After closing at the outset of the pandemic, the museum reopened in August 2020 to host a special exhibit that honored the 100th anniversary of Negro Leagues baseball, and has presented a mixture of virtual and hybrid programming since. Currently, it’s open on weekends only, and boasts new outdoor exhibits for our socially-distanced era. For Black History Month, family-friendly virtual and hybrid events include a quilt-making session, a scavenger hunt focused on Black inventions, and trivia around the theme “Things I Didn’t Learn in School.”

To learn more about Sandy Spring Slave Museum and Art Gallery, and lend your support, head here!

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