Join the Hampton University Museum for a Juneteenth Viewing of ‘Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid’ and ‘Opening The Vault: A Look into the Hampton University Museum Collections’ on Sunday, June 14 from 1 – 5 PM. This event is free, but you must register by June 9 by calling 757-727-5308. Hosted by Arts & Letters, The Hampton Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Hampton University.
You can also view these exhibits during museum hours: Monday – Friday: 8 am – 5 pm, and beginning June 6, Saturday: noon – 4 pm.
Exhibit: Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid
Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid, organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art and guest curated by Vanessa Thaxton-Ward, Ph.D., is inspired by Dr. Edda Fields-Black’s 2025 Pulitzer Prize Award-Winning Book, Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War, and features photographs by renowned environmental photographer J Henry Fair alongside paintings, sculpture, and other works by 20th and 21st century American artists that visually explore the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid.
Exhibit: Opening The Vault: A Look into the Hampton University Museum Collections
Multiplicity in Motion invites viewers to explore the depth and breadth of a single artistic vision expressed through multiple works. This exhibition challenges the notion of singularity by presenting a series of pieces that, while distinct, are interconnected through the artist’s evolving ideas, techniques, and perspectives. Each work becomes a lens into a different facet of creativity—revealing how repetition, variation, and contrast can coexist within one voice. Together, these works form a dialogue that transcends individual pieces, offering a richer understanding of the artist’s practice and the complexity of interpretation via the work of Benny Andrews, Ampofo-Anti, Romare Bearden, George Chemeche, Allan Crite, Countee Cullen, A. B. Jackson, Charles Sebree, Lloyd Toone and Richard Ward.