Evening for Educators: Out of Many, One Classroom
Teacher Program
Join The Phillips Collection and local educators for a free evening celebrating the many voices, stories, and perspectives that shape our classrooms. Explore the museum after hours, create art, and experience hands-on activities based on the theme “Out of Many, One Classroom”—inspired by our upcoming exhibition Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection. Discover our educator programs, register for a school tour, and leave with practical tools to inspire your students.
Program
5:15-5:45 pm | Auditorium, Lower Level 2
Opening Session: Learn about The Phillips Collection and our school and teacher offerings.
5-8 pm
Explore the museum after hours.
- Connect Through Art Journaling with artist Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown) and enjoy refreshments, 5:30-7:30 pm | Lower Level 2
A creative, visual twist on bullet journaling, this drop-in session led by artist Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown) invites you to relax, experiment, and turn a simple notebook into a beautiful record of your thoughts and ideas, planning and even student assignments or note-taking. Whether you’re new to journaling or a seasoned bullet journal expert, come unwind and create without pressure. All materials are supplied! - Become the student, 5:45, 6:15, 6:45 pm | Various galleries
Sample a school tour on topics such as “Awakening the Senses” and “Taking a Stand, Making a Change” - Experience a workshop, 5:45-6:15 pm (K-5) & 6:45-7:15 pm (6-12) | Meet in East Parlor
Join us in the galleries with Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series to explore how art can tell powerful stories of movement, resilience, and community. Through close looking, dialogue, and a hands-on activity, educators will consider how Lawrence’s work reflects many voices and shared experiences. - Expand your network, 5:30-7:30 pm | Music Room
Explore opportunities to engage with colleagues and educational partners nearby. We are excited to announce that the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Planet Word, Teaching for Change, and Turning the Page will be joining us. - Shop & Sip, 5:30-7:30 pm | Gift Shop
Enjoy a 25% discount at our Gift Shop for one night only! Complimentary beer and wine will be served.
About Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown)
Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown) has an extensive education, beginning with a Bachelor of Sciences in Kinesiological Sciences from the University of Maryland (1991). She studied at the Pratt Institute of Art (1996), and later attended the San Francisco Art Institute, earning her BFA, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the late 1990s. She completed her Master of Fine Arts at Yale University in 2002. She has a deep musical background, trained in classical guitar from ages 7-19, and began to DJ professionally while at Yale.
Her earlier a³ blackface series mines the rich cross-cultural territory of ganguro and burapan, subcultures of Japanese adolescents that sport tanned skin, bright makeup, blonde wigs, crimped hair and gold chains to model themselves after the stereotypical African-American hip-hop look. According to many sources, the word ganguro translates to “blackface.” Rozeal. combines disparate elements into an elaborate allegory that feels both otherworldly and universal. The visual conventions of Japanese ukiyo-e and shunga, the Japanese tradition of erotic art, play a strong role in Rozeal.’s body of work, “Coupledom, (REDEEM THE TIME!),” which is laden with intimacy. These paintings of the last decade feature embracing couples, each assigned to their cozy atmosphere (sometimes referred to as a pod). Most of the works are titled with an accompanying haiku and scripture from The Song of Songs.
Rozeal’s work has been exhibited around the world, featuring in many exhibitions at numerous galleries and institutions, includingBack and Forth: Rozeal., Titian and Cézanne (April 26, 2025–April 26, 2026) at The National Gallery of Art and Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection at The Phillips Collection. Rozeal.’s artwork is held in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The National Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, and North Carolina Museum of Art. Rozeal. is represented by Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor NY.
IMAGE AT TOP: Teacher workshop during Evening for Educators. Photo: Ryan Maxwell
