Deputy Director/ Interim Director

  • September 25, 2026, 40th Anniversary: The Celebration Begins Annual Meeting
  • August 14, 2026, Member Morning + Curator Talk | Framing American Democracy: Rebel | Revolt | Resist
  • August 6, 2026, FIRST THURSDAYS: Caribbean Night & Ocean Vuong
  • August 1, 2026, SNAP! Photography Capstone Presentation
  • July 6 – July 30, 2026, SNAP! Photography class
  • July 2, 2026, Exhibition Meet & Greet: Rebel | Revolt | Resist
  • July 1 – 5, 2026, Long Weekend Hartford
  • June 20, 2026,  Bridging Freedom: A Juneteenth Celebration with The City of Hartford & East Hartford
  • June 19, 2026, 35th Juneteenth Jubilee Celebration
  • June 13, 2026, Juneteenth Family Day
  • May 7, 2026 – Spring 2027, Framing American Democracy – Rebel | Revolt | Resist, opening reception
  • April 24, 2026, The Wadsworth’s Fine Art & Flowers – Amistad to Featuring Wendel A. White, Genealogical Chart with Hair
  • March 19, 2026, Honoring the Yoruba Great Mother! The Gẹ̀l̀ẹ̀d̀ẹ́́ Spectacle in Africa and its Carryovers in the Americas, welcome address
  • February 19, 2026, Penning Lecture Series: Dr. Anthony Jack
  • February 16, 2026, An Evening with Harmonia Rosales Conversation and Program
  • January 19, 2026, Amistad for the Culture: MLK Community Day
  • December 18, 2025, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Presents: Radiance Festival of Lights, The Amistad Center, Hartford, CT
  • December 14, 2025, Kwanza display and programming with The Wadsworth’s Festival of Trees & Traditions
  • November 10, 2025, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Annual Meeting 2025
  • October 26, 2025,  I Am A Man: Black Men and Boys’ Mental Health Initiative – Day-Long Wellness Workshop, Therapist Enroue Halfkenny
  • August 24, 2025, I Am A Man: Black Men and Boys’ Mental Health Initiative – Comedy Night with Hartford Comedian and Filmmaker Rob Santos, Amistad Program
  • August 7, 2025, First Thursday: Caribbean Night, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Amistad Joint Program
  • May 20, 2025, I Am A Man: Black Men and Boys’ Mental Health Initiative – Exhibiting Forgiveness | An Evening with Titus Kaphar, Amistad Center with support from The Wadsworth, Hartford Foundation – Black Giving Circle Fund, and Brother Carl Hardrick Institute
  • June 8, 2025, Juneteenth Family Day Program
  • May 2025 – Spring 2026, Exhibition, Wendel A. White: Manifest | Thirteen Colonies
  • May 2025 – Spring 2026, Exhibition, Yoruba World
  • June 7, 2025, 34th Annual Juneteenth Gala – People Get Ready!
  • Spring 2024 – 2025, Exhibition, Highlights from the Diaspora, Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • Spring 2024 – 2025, Exhibition, Freedomways, Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • August 2025,  Caribbean Emancipation Festival, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Amistad Joint Program
  • June 2025,  SNAP! Photography Teen Residency, Paid team artist residency, Amistad Center Program 
  • June 8, 2025,  Juneteenth Family Day Program, Amistad Center
  • June 7, 2025,  Juneteenth Gala Celebration – People Get Ready, Amistad Center
  • May 2025,  I Am A Man: Black Men and Boys Mental Health Initiative, Grant funded by Hartford Foundation’s Black Giving Circle, Artist & Filmmaker Titus Kapahr, Comedian Rob Sanches, Therapist Andrew Watley, African American Society, Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • April 25-27, 2025, Fine Art and Flowers, The Negro Looks Ahead, adorned with Nigerian funerary traditions interpreted
  • by poem, The Sunflower in My Father’s Garden as a Metaphor for the Return of Our Ancestors, by John Chinaka
  • Onyeche, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art program with Amistad Center Contribution
  • April 4, 2025, Uncomfortable Conversations: Voting Rights, Access, Participation, and Registration with UCONN professor Dr. Evelyn Simien, Amistad Center Program
  • March 14, 2025, Math in the Museum Pi Day, Amistad Center Program
  • March 13, 2025, Divine Design: Ramadan Breaking the Fast Celebration, Amistad Center Program
  • March 1, 2025, Democracy & Dialogue Initiative: Encounters: From Jubilee to Juneteenth, Program with CT State Community College, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • February 20, 2025, Public Lecture: Pennington Lecture with Annette Gordon-Reed, Program with CT State Community College, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • Thursdays in February, 2025, Amistad Black History Tour, Amistad Center Program
  • February 1, 2025, Curator’s Corner: Highlights from the Diaspora tour, Thursday, Amistad Center Curator-Led Tour
  • January 20, 2025, Amistad! For the Culture: MLK Family Day, Wadsworth Atheneum, Amistad Center Collaborative
  • Program
  • December 30, 2024, Radiance: A Festival of Lights, Amistad Center’s Kawanzaa Hanukkah celebration, Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • December 21, 2024, Curator’s Corner: Sleuthing at the Seams: The Primus Dress, Wadsworth Atheneum and Amistad Center exhibition addition from the Wadsworth Textile Collection and program jointly executed by Amistad and Wadsworth’s curators
  • December 5-15, 2024, Festival of Trees and Traditions, Wadsworth Atheneum program with Amistad Contribution – Kwanzaa Table and Activity
  • November 23, 2024, SNAP! Photography Teen Artist Residence, Exhibition, Thicker Than Water, Artist Talk, Amistad Center Program
  • November 12, 2024, Amistad Annual Meeting & Amistad Galleries Opening Reception, Amistad Center
  • Thursdays in November, Amistad Tours: Portraits of the African Diaspora, Amistad Center Program
  • November 7, 2024, Curator’s Corner – Freedomways Exhibition, Amistad Center Program Tour
  • October 12, 2024, Math in the Museum, During Wadsworth Atheneum’s Second Saturdays for Families, Joint
  • Programming
  • October 10 &11, 2024, Ornamental Blackness Lecture & Tour, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yale, and Amistad Center program
  • October 3, 2024, Finance with Phillip, during the Wadsworth Atheneum’s First Thursday program
  • Thursdays in October, Amistad Tours: Portraits of the African Diaspora, Amistad Center Program
  • September 6, 7 & 8, 2024, The Amistad Center & Wadsworth are screening the musical WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE
  • SLAVES OF LIBERTY (1979)
  • August 1, 2025, The Wadsworth, in partnership with The Amistad, Held in conjunction with Caribbean Heritage Month in Hartford, Connecticut, a viewing of the film Following Harry, a documentary that chronicles 96-year-old civil rights icon Harry Belafonte’s commitment to social justice, and a live performance by The Ark Band
  • August 2, 2024, Amistad Center’s first theater stage reading production of the captivating play, Eclipsed (by Danai
  • Gurira), directed by Amistad Center Staff
  • August 3, 2024, Gallery Talk | History of the Negro Leagues with Steve Thornton, Wadsworth Atheneum & Amistad
  • Center Collaborative Program
  • June 15, 2024, Juneteenth Gala Celebration- A New Day, Amistad Center Program