Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling: Children’s Art Exhibition for Justice, 7/28

Summer Camp Art Exhibition, (detail), 2019. Photo by Michael Palma Mir. [Image Description: A grid of nine hand print paintings, each is in a different style by a different unknown author, they are highly colorful.]

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Live on July 28th

Each year on July 28th, the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling and Broadway Housing Communities hold a Children’s March for Justice through the Sugar Hill neighborhood in Harlem —co-sponsored by the NAACP— in tribute to their historic Silent Protest Parade of 1917. They march to demand that all children have access to housing, equal education, the cultural arts and immigration reform.

But this year is not like any other, and so the march is being transformed into the Children’s Art Exhibition for Justice. Teachers and educators at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum Preschool, and Dorothy Day Early Childhood Center, are leading their 100 families and students aged 3-8 in creating drawings, watercolors, photography and collage around two storytelling themes: Life in Quarantine and Social Justice. 

The exhibition will also feature protest art themed: Do The Right Thing, produced by older children and teen residents of Broadway Housing Communities, under the direction of Dominican American artist Dionis Ortiz. And there will be marching too! Come watch a video history of the silent protest march movement. 

You can find out more about Sugar Hill Museum of Art & Storytelling here.