We are excited to continue a new summer tradition of fitness programming at the Museum. Join us every week in August for a variety of fitness activities to get your blood pumping and your sweat flowing, all while having lots of fun! This year we are partnering with the YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan […]
Our August book club selection will be Hunger by Roxane Gay. From the Publisher: In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. […]
Next Page Books will be hosting a story time featuring books about children of color and their relationship with their hair. Please note this is a third party event organized by members of Senator Cory Booker's local campaign staff. Details available here.
Join us from 10 AM to 4 PM on September 7 to celebrate the opening of our new exhibit! The galleries will be available through regular admission rates. Visitors will also have the chance to enter to win tickets to Hancher Auditorium's upcoming presentation of Urban Bush Women's Hair and Other Stories.
Sean Donaldson, from the African American Museum of Iowa, will take us from African beats to the jazz of the Harlem Renaissance to the popular music of the Civil Rights movement. The influences of traditional African music can be seen in the spirituals sung by African Americans while they worked as slaves, elements of spirituals […]
The African American Museum of Iowa is excited to announce the first program connected to our 2019-2020 temporary exhibit, Untangling the Roots. This exciting program is presented in partnership with Hancher auditorium and Urban Bush Women as part of a community engagement series surrounding the upcoming performance of Hair and Other Stories. Using the deceptively simple […]
The African American Museum of Iowa will open its doors free of charge to all Museum Day ticket holders on Saturday September 21, 2019 as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 15th annual Museum Day, a national celebration of boundless curiosity in which participating museums emulate the free admission policy at the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington D.C.-based museums. […]
About the Series: Join us at the Museum for free monthly presentations by Sean Donaldson, Museum Educator. These one-hour presentations will focus on a variety of topics ranging from broad African American history and the evolution of African american music, to Iowa's African Americans in sports and African American holiday traditions. With twelve opportunities to […]
Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is […]
Join the African American Museum of Iowa to honor African Americans who’ve made an indelible impact as a trailblazer, change agent, legacy maker or role model in their communities. The AAMI’s only fundraiser, the annual History Makers Gala attracts guests from all over Iowa. Proceeds benefit the AAMI’s efforts to carry out its mission to preserve, […]
