The Billie Holiday Center sponsors and supports various exhibitions from our curatorial work and group projects from our student courses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Birth of Jazz in Baltimore is a 14 panel modular traveling exhibition that utilizes that showcases new information about Billie Holiday\u2019s girlhood in Baltimore, the early 20th century jazz scene in the city, and the ongoing connection between Holiday and the historic Black Arts District of Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore, with maps, archival photographs, and recently acquired materials from the Sheridan Libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Devoted to jazz vocalist Ethel Ennis, this exhibition explored each era of the singer\u2019s life and featured over 130 items from the Sheridan Libraries\u2019 Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett Collection, including photographs, posters, unpublished written arrangements, and audiovisual recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition space at the Homewood Museum largely focused on the estate\u2019s historical and architectural significance and on the accomplishments of the Carroll family, with very little and only very recent attention being paid to those that the Carrolls enslaved. This exhibition transformed the gallery space at Homewood in order to render a fuller understanding of the past and present contributions of the Black settlements surrounding Homewood\u2014namely, Cross Keys, Bare Hills, and Hoe\u2019s Heights<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition highlighted the photography of Daisy Brown, John Clark Mayden, I. Henry Phillips Sr., I.H. Webster Phillips III, Brian Pinson, and SHAN Wallace\u2014established and emerging Baltimore artists whose work, spanning some seven decades, reveals how Black folk live, love, struggle, and triumph in their daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Community Archives Fellow Jeneanne Collins produced a captstone art installation that reviewed the community art and archival impact of the BHCLA from 2019 to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n