The annual JSAAHC Greens Cook Off, where local cooks face off in Greens, Mac-n-Cheese, and Dessert to be crowned the best.

The 12th Annual Maupintown Film Festival returns to Charlottesville’s historic Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, September 5-7, 2025, with a powerful lineup of films that celebrate the bold resistance and enduring beauty of Black history and culture. The festival began in 2014, and focuses on showcasing stories from around the world of African American […]

Join us for a closing workshop inspired by A Constellation of Blacktivists, the current exhibition by artist Veronica Jackson on view in our Contemporary Gallery. This participatory experience invites community members of all ages to engage in a dynamic text collage workshop where words become acts of resistance, remembrance, and celebration. Through a series of reflective and energizing prompts generated by Veronica, such as “BLACK JOY IS…,” participants will respond using language drawn from personal memory, collective history, and radical imagination. These responses will be transformed into striking broadside-style prints, combining the immediacy of protest posters with the intimacy of personal testimony. Using bold typography and collage techniques, each participant will design and take home their own broadside. Veronica will  select a few works to display as a temporary community installation in the gallery. Come create, reflect, and amplify the brilliance of Black resistance and joy through the power of words.