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- 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