EASTON, MARYLAND — Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, 6:00–7:30 p.m. Academy Art Museum, 106 South Street, Easton. Free and open to the public; the museum asks visitors to register to reserve a seat. Robin Owen Joyce, Ph.D., speaks on Cross-Border Solidarity: African American Artists in Mexico, listed among related programs for Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography, on view through Oct. 11, 2026.

Joyce, Assistant Curator of Academic Engagement at the Baltimore Museum of Art, traces why politically engaged African American artists including Elizabeth Catlett, John Wilson, Margaret Burroughs, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff sought printmaking workshops and muralists’ ateliers in Mexico City between the 1930s and the early 1950s. The museum’s lecture page says those artists found formal training and political solidarity in radical Mexican artistic communities even as Afro-Mexican people were often marginalized in the postrevolutionary Mexican state — and that printmaking and mural painting became tools for consciousness raising and transmission of radical histories.

Museum hours for the same Friday: closed Mondays; Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.; admission always free; enter via Harrison Street. Register through the museum’s lecture page before assuming an open seat.