GATHERINGS

Sept. 2021, “Color of Art” mapping panel @, Mehari Sequar Gallery on H Street, N.E. Left: Charvis Campbell, founder of Home Rule Records. Center: Melissa A. Weber, Curator of the Hogan Archives of New Orleans Jazz and New Orleans Music, Tulane University. Right, Reggie Van Lee, Chair of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Photo by Sam Johnson III.

Left, Chef Angie Rose, Dr. Autumn Saxton-Ross, Dr. Natalie Hopkinson, Geneva Greene in the Pelourinho, Salvador, Brazil. August 2024.

Go-Go Preservation Week 2021 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Top photo by Sam Johnson III. Right photo by Greg “Mr. G” Sanders who pioneered the club photography industry.

Scholars’ retreat at American University School of Communications. September 30, 2023 organized by DC Folklife Network/Traditional Arts DC. BACK ROW, L-R: Sojin Kim, G. Derek Musgrove, Darrin X, Yolanda Young, Ivan Navas, Keesha Ceran, Maleke Glee, Warren Sterling, Marcus K. Dowling, Natalie Hopkinson.FRONT ROW, L-R: Nico Hobson, Nekos Brown, Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., Deborah Evans, Ronald Moten. Photo by Siddi Mahatole

The Future Band conga player Eian Jackson, aka Smackin Jack, before doing a workshop with Afro-Cuban drummers in 2024 in Havana, Cuba. Photo by Freddie Sandoval.

DC Fashion Pioneers Day, June 19, 2023. Sycamore and Oak. LeGreg Harrison, Ty Johnson, Eddie Van, John Day, Kenny Westray, Robert George created status urban fashion brands in the 1980s and 1990s.