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Stories of the Enslaved

Food Preparation and Storage

Time's Ticking! Highlighting Clocks

Highlighting Dresses

Indigenous Artisans

Highlighting Quilts

Chairs and Seating

Samplers

Quilt, Sarah Jane Bower (American, 1842–1920), c. 1860, Carroll County, Maryland, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

May 2026
Highlighting Dresses

Quilt, Sarah Jane Bower (American, 1842–1920), c. 1860, Carroll County, Maryland, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

February 2026
Highlighting Quilts

Jar John Lehman Birmingham Museum of Art

December 2025
Time’s Ticking! Highlighting Clocks

Jar John Lehman Birmingham Museum of Art

November 2025
What’s Cooking? Highlighting Food Preparation and Storage.

Ah-Day: The Favorite One's Chair Teri Greeves Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

October 2025
Highlighting Indigenous Artisans

Grecian Couch, Duncan Phyfe & Son, 1839–41, New York, New York, Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation

September 2025
Sit On It! Highlighting Chairs and Seating

Sampler, William Levington, July 4, 1832, Baltimore, Maryland, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

August 2025
Highlighting Samplers

Weathervane Commissioned from Joseph Rakestraw George Washington’s Mount Vernon

June 2025
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