Exploring the Great Migration

Family Day

March 11, 2023, 12-3 pm

In-Person

$16, free for Phillips members and children under 18. Reservations required. Reservations include museum admission. Entry times for this event are offered every 30 minutes from 12-3 pm, with final entry at 2:30 pm. Please select an entry time on the reservation page.

Explore the history and legacy of the Great Migration through art. Guided by museum educators, families will engage in activities designed to promote conversation, collaboration, and reflection.

Learn: Tour Jacob Lawrence’s multi-panel Migration Series

Express: Make art in response to Lawrence’s series

Empathize: Listen to an educator read Jacqueline Woodson’s picture book This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

Connect: View a documentary about three DC residents’ migration stories based on interviews conducted by high school students

Experiment: Play musical instruments in a petting zoo provided by National Symphony Orchestra Volunteer Council

This program is a collaboration with the Kennedy Center and National Symphony Orchestra, which will dramatize This Is the Rope on April 2, 2023, at the Kennedy Center.

IMAGE: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers., 1940-41, Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in., The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1942; © 2023 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York