In addition to free admission, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., join in creative art activities* to explore the movement and music in the Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade. Join teaching artists in creating colorful suncatchers with West African Adinkra Symbols and patterned musical bracelets to wear. At 11:15 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. attend lively performances from Jeannine Osayande & Dunya Performing Arts Company. Participants will enjoy interactive lecture demonstrations with African Diaspora drumming, dancing, Oral History/telling, and Capoeira-Angola traditions.

*Pre-registration is requested for art activities.  

Pre-register and arrive anytime between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to participate. No registration is required for admission to Museum galleries.  

For questions, contact education@brandywine.org. 

Teaching Artist Bio:

Jeannine Osyande is a polycentric interdisciplinary Choreographer, Educator, Performer, Cultural Expert of West African Diaspora/African Derived dance and drum traditions whose work intersects with her community’s folklife documentation on the historically Black neighborhood of Swarthmore Oral history documentation research. She is founder and director of Dunya Performing Arts Company (DunyaPAC), specializing in Art Integration, where the arts become the approach to teaching and the vehicle for learning. Jeannine & DunyaPAC have provided programming on the Black Experience for 40 years, reaching hundreds of thousands of people, locally and internationally.