Book Signing with Kwesi Essel-Blankson, Regional Director of Ghana’s Museum and Monuments Board
Essel-Blankson, an author, museum educator, and tour guide will present his book Our Story: Cape Coast Castle & The Trans-Atlantic Slave Travel.
After the Sales: Black Friday Jazz
Don't miss this Black Friday Special featuring Marvin F. Cockrell with special guest Kim Fuller-Barnes! Enjoy an early evening of live music at a steal in one of the city's most unique cultural venues.
CANCELLED: The National Council presents: Free Her, Saving Ourselves Opening Reception
This is an empowering series of photography, storytelling, and community as we work towards ending incarceration of women and girls!
Terang’Art II – A Celebration of Art and Hospitality
The culmination of 30 years of fellowship and education between the two regions, Terang’Art II features 15 contemporary artists from St. Louis who partnered with Senegalese artists for a cross-cultural showcase.
Terang’Art II – Opening Reception
Join The Griot Museum of Black History to celebrate Sister Cities St. Louis Missouri and Saint-Louis, Senegal with the intercultural exhibition titled Terang’Art II – A Celebration of Art and Hospitality!
Terang’Art II – Senegal Art Showcase
For one week only, experience the art of 20 Senegalese and St. Louis, MO artists to commemorate 30 years of fellowship between our two regions.
Collecting Family Oral Histories
Learn how to create a family oral history project and deepen family history research from Kelly Elaine Navies, Museum Specialist in Oral History at the National Museum of African American History and Culture!
Artists Workshop with De' Joneiro Jones!
The Artists' Workshop with De' Joneiro Jones is a painting workshop where the artist will show his technique, then invite audiences to create their own artworks on 4 x 6 canvases.
History of Black Abstraction
The Black Abstraction Overview program will be a short presentation about Black abstraction history and artists, including three that were St. Louis born!
Alchemical Abstractions: The Art of De' Joneiro Jones
Alchemical Abstractions: The Art of De’Joneiro Jones is an exhibition on the artistic experimentation of the St. Louis-based artist.
Save Me A Place: A Weaving Workshop
Join us in partnership with Perennial for a hands-on weaving workshop!
Slavery in St. Louis Exhibit
Ulysses S. Grant Nat’l Historic Site offers Slavery in St. Louis as a traveling exhibit to help bring this important history to life.
3rd Annual Juneteenth 'FREE DOME' Celebration
Juneteenth "FREE-DOME" Celebration is a one day family oriented event celebrating the rich heritage, history and culture of people of African descent. We will come together to show that we are UNITED and to celebrate our unity with diverse people throughout Saint Louis City.
Lift Every Voice Exhibit
Experience the St. Louis premiere of Lift Every Voice, an exhibition featuring 15 hooked rugs inspired by Elizabeth Catlett's 1947 series I Am the Black Woman!
Lift Every Voice Exhibit Opening
Join The Griot Museum of Black History as we debut the St. Louis premiere of Lift Every Voice, an exhibition featuring 15 hooked rugs inspired by Elizabeth Catlett's 1947 series I Am the Black Woman!
Everyone has a St. Louis Story To Tell: A Community Panel and Celebration
Hosted by the University of Missouri - St. Louis’ We Are St. Louis Initiative - Join us in celebrating the digital projects by these local storytellers and public historians. In addition to previews of the projects, there will conversation, food, & refreshments.
Salon de Griot: An Artist Happy Hour
Join us for our 3rd Salon to build community with fellow artists and creative hustlers around St. Louis before summer kicks into high gear!
Double Feature at The Griot Museum
Step into the past and witness captivating tales of resilience and redemption at The Griot Museum’s double feature screening of short films, Honorable and Eliza.
Alice M. Windom Initiative Launch
Celebrate the launch of a historic initiative for The Griot Museum and St. Louis black history!
Silver Screen Sistas: A Black Women's Movie Marathon
Honor Women’s History Month at The Griot Museum with three amazing St. Louis women who changed the way we see ourselves on the big screen!
Register To Vote
Come down to The Griot for a voter registration pop-up hosted by WashU Votes and learn about local initiatives that cound make their way to your ballots this fall.
Author and Books Celebration
As the holiday season approaches, we are excited to inform you that ABC is back for 2023! We invite you to join us for the Authors and Books Celebration 2023 and help us launch the holiday season at The Griot. The ABC event is a wonderful platform for local authors to showcase their work, connect with readers and other authors, and make the holiday season even more special.
Asaase III Rebuilt
Asaase III is the newest addition to The Griot Museum's collection. Inspired by traditional Ghanaian buildings, this monumental public art sculpture used a rammed earth technique to create the six distinct “rooms” of the installation.
Join us us for a hands-on workshop this fall that explores, in depth, the installation of Asaase III and the rammed earth technique. Design and create your own miniature rammed earth sculpture to display in a future Museum exhibit or to take home.
The Asaase Rebuilt workshop is included with regular Museum admission. Advance registration is required. Space and materials are limited so don't delay, sign up today!
Salon de Griot: Celebrating Doretha
The Salon de Griot is an experiential space where creatives, patrons, and thought partners gather in a relaxed atmosphere of food, fun, and fellowship to engage in creativity, conversation, concepts and current events. You choose the format - demonstrations, conversations, production, workshops, and more – and make it your own.
Our inaugural Salon will be a farewell celebration for phenomenal class artist Doretha Washington, as she relocates from St. Louis to Atlanta. We hope you will join us!
Spoken Word Poetry Workshop: A Sound, A Signal, The Circus
In conjunction with Nicole Miller: A Sound, a Signal, the Circus, The Griot Museum of Black History hosts a series of site-specific poetry workshops that engage with the history of their location in St. Louis. Led by poet Precious Musa and collaborators, the spoken word workshops offer opportunities to reflect on how sensory perceptions can reveal answers to questions of belonging, displacement, and erasure, exploring what it means to live in the wake of the past.
No prior preparation or background is necessary to participate. This 90-minute program is free and open to the public.
The May 7th workshop at The Griot Museum is led by Precious Musa and Edil Hassan and is designed for middle school audiences.
Space is limited to 20 participants. Register here >>
Contribute to the Black HerStory Initiative
The Griot Museum of Black History welcomes community members to self-nominate and/or share the HerStory of a Black woman who has made a positive civic, social, political, or creative impact in St. Louis.
Submissions will be considered for inclusion in an upcoming public installation by the Monument Lab Re:Generation project, which seeks to highlight Black HERSTORY through exhibition, oral histories, and public memory-making.
Facets of Love Celebration
As a prelude to the 25th anniversary of The Griot in 2022, The Griot will celebrate the unconventional journey of its Founder and Executive Director, Ms. Lois Conley. The celebration, “Facets of Love,” will feature music, poetry, tributes, and opportunities to support The Griot, Ms. Conley’s precious gift to the City.
