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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Lunar New Year 2024
Art All Night 2023 at Mount Pleasant
Day With(out) Art 2023 – Everyone I Know is Sick
Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
Portraying Petworth – Celebrate Petworth 2023
Adams Morgan Day 2023
Interviewing Alice and Staughton Lynd
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: