Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art

All events › Washington, D.C. ›

Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art

National Museum of African Art
Sunday, August 30, 2026•10:00 AM
Free
Based on years of close collaboration and dialogue with African visual art practitioners who claim belonging in the LGBTQ+ community, this exhibition features nearly 60 artworks that share complex stories of openly claiming identities, histories, and place. The artists practice across the entirety of the African continent and its global diaspora, using their work to speak their truths.
View event at africa.si.edu

Rate your Overlook Events experience

About National Museum of African Art

As part of the Smithsonian Institution, this museum serves as a vital center for exploring the diverse artistic expressions of the African continent through both historic and modern lenses.story_potoo

950 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560
Open
• Closes 5:30 PM
si.edu
+1 202-633-4600

More see & view events in Washington, D.C.

View all events
Graftings
Graftings
Aug 29·6:30 PM
Free

Twelve artists. Three disciplines. One creative conversation. Graftings is a one-night-only interdisciplinary exhibition featuring four poets, four visual artists, and four filmmakers in one extraordinary creative conversation.

Artist Talk with Mona Bozorgi
Artist Talk with Mona Bozorgi
Aug 29·1:00 PM
Free

Hillyer’s featured solo artist, Mona Bozorgi, will lead a gallery talk about her exhibition Threading the Gaze. Drawing on images, primarily selfies, taken by Iranian women during the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement, Bozorgi traces circuits of exchange between human and non-human gazes.

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS, SUMMER/FALL 2026
EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS, SUMMER/FALL 2026
Aug 29
Free

Events & Exhibitions Schedule