Spurlock Museum - Event

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  • Photograph of Skeena Reece facing the camera, dressed in a combination of contemporary and traditional indigenous clothing.
    • 7:00 pm    2/1/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Reece will share a curated review of her favorite works. A reception will follow. Levis Center, Room 210

  • A graphic with the words "Black Joy Project" written across horizontally.
    • 4:00 pm    2/2/2024
    • The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures

    We invite you to the launch of the Black Joy Project with a celebratory reception of performance, food, activities, and fellowship.

  • A photograph of empty glass jars.
    • 1:30 pm    2/4/2024
    • The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures

    Join the Spurlock staff in making stained glass candle jars to add color and brightness around the house.

  • Photograph of Skeena Reece facing the camera, dressed in a combination of contemporary and traditional indigenous clothing.
    • 5:30 pm    2/5/2024
    • Room 9, School of Art & Design

    Anticolonial sticker-making workshop in collaboration with the Native American House. Art and Design, Room 9.

  • Photograph of Skeena Reece facing the camera, dressed in a combination of contemporary and traditional indigenous clothing.
    • 5:30 pm    2/8/2024

  • A photograph of two men and one woman in traditional, Native American dress.
    • 4:00 pm    2/16/2024
    • The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures

    Biboon (winter) brings cold weather and storytelling. Storytelling for many Indigenous communities is a time of reflection, laughter, and life lessons. Bizhiki storytellers travel the country sharing appropriate stories with family and youth audiences in an interactive environment.

  • Photograph of a cork board with the word "storytelling" in colorful letters pinned to it.
    • 1:30 pm    2/18/2024
    • The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures

    Everybody has stories to tell, and we’d love to hear yours. In connection with the ongoing Black Joy Project at the Spurlock, we invite members of the community to share memories, legendary tales from family or friend groups, important moments…anything you wish to share or think others might like to hear.

  • Photograph of Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum mid performance playing a percussive gourd instrument and smiling.
    • 2:00 pm    2/25/2024
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures

    Walking with My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle (2019), the award-winning and nationally recognized performance piece, is about a mother’s search for guidance from the spirits of her ancestors in the dungeons for enslaved Africans.