In collaboration with scholars at American University and community residents across Washington, D.C., the Humanities Truck creates exhibits that collect, create, interpret, and curate stories that can return to the communities they originated from and circulate throughout the metropolitan region.
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Columbia Heights Day 2023

City Point Shove Off Day: The Precursor to Juneteenth

“We’re Here, We’re Queer”: Mapping Queer Space in DC

“Artists are the Gatekeepers of Truth”, Paul Robeson 125th Birthday Celebration

Humanities Truck Film Festival

Voices of Rosedale

Lunar New Year 2023: Reflecting/Envisioning Chinatown

Being and Belonging: DAY WITH(OUT) ART, Visual AIDS Day 2022

Creative Expressions of Self, With Others, and By Others: Celebrate Petworth 2022

Who’s Adams Morgan? Black, White, and in Color

The 158th Battle of Fort Stevens Commemoration

Black Pride, Freedom Day: A Day for Celebration and Remembrance of Black Liberation and Black Excellence

Pride Is___, An Exploration and Celebration of Pride: Past, Present, and Future

“Artists are the Gatekeepers of Truth”, Paul Robeson 124th Birthday Celebration

Knickerbocker Theater Disaster

Lunar New Year with the Humanities Truck: A Community Driven Digital Collage

Black Women’s Movement to Reclaim Our Health

Washington’s Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins’ Dioramas

Working in DC

Your Celebrations in Petworth

Adams Morgan Once and Now: Human Needs or Developers Greed

Taking the Truck OUT! Safe Sex Activism and the AIDS Crisis in D.C.

Eliza: A short documentary

Meeting People Where They Are: Harm reduction as a practice, philosophy, and movement

What Lies Beneath: Documenting the History of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery

“This I Built/Esto Yo Lo Hice” Documentary

Oral Histories, Fall 2020

The Trail to Indigenous People’s Day

“We Blitzed the City”:
Africa in America

Building Resilient Black Food Systems

From Me To You:
A Covid-19 Oral History Project

Lunar New Year at
D.C.’s Chinatown

“It’s A Small World After All” at Petworth Neighborhood Library

Downtown Displaced

Jornaleros:
Manos Invisibles

“Taking the Truck OUT!” at the Whitman-Walker 5K

Class of 1969

Malcolm X Park:
Celebrating 50 Years

Celebrate Petworth

Art All Night:
Fort Reno Retrospective

Late Skate at
Anacostia Park

Community History Snapshots

Resistance & Revolution

Class of 1968
Check out these projects that inspired the idea of the Humanities Truck: