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- Moving Boldly - Early in 2024, The Henry Ford acquired five color slides documenting the creative collaboration between Graham and designer Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi designed sets for over 20 of the company’s performances.
- September 24, 2024
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Moving Boldly
Early in 2024, The Henry Ford acquired five color slides documenting the creative collaboration between Graham and designer Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi designed sets for over 20 of the company’s performances.
- Hairstyling and Homemaking: The Career of Velma Truant - Life is made up of thousands and thousands of little bits and pieces. Many of these pieces of our lives are special to us or hold value in one way or another and therefore we tend to find creative ways to hang onto them. Whether they be recipes on the back of food packaging, a poem, a picture in a magazine, a beautiful message on a greeting card; all these little scraps are what some may deem worthy of pasting into a book to be memorialized together. These little ‘scraps’ of life, once put together with intention, create what many people come to know as scrapbooks.
- August 20, 2024
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Hairstyling and Homemaking: The Career of Velma Truant
Life is made up of thousands and thousands of little bits and pieces. Many of these pieces of our lives are special to us or hold value in one way or another and therefore we tend to find creative ways to hang onto them. Whether they be recipes on the back of food packaging, a poem, a picture in a magazine, a beautiful message on a greeting card; all these little scraps are what some may deem worthy of pasting into a book to be memorialized together. These little ‘scraps’ of life, once put together with intention, create what many people come to know as scrapbooks.
- "Long Live" and Prosper: Fandom in Pop Culture - Have you ever decked yourself out in head-to-toe colors of your favorite sports team? Discussed theories about your favorite TV show? Celebrated a fictional holiday like Festivus, wished someone “May the Fourth be with you,” or worn pink on Wednesdays? If so, then you’ve participated in fandom.
- April 09, 2025
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"Long Live" and Prosper: Fandom in Pop Culture
Have you ever decked yourself out in head-to-toe colors of your favorite sports team? Discussed theories about your favorite TV show? Celebrated a fictional holiday like Festivus, wished someone “May the Fourth be with you,” or worn pink on Wednesdays? If so, then you’ve participated in fandom.
- "Everything I Do is Me" - Gwen Frostic - How does one interpret art? How does one view activism or protest? These concepts have merged for centuries to convey a message and drive change. “Activist Art,” as defined by the Tate Museum in London, is “a term used to describe art grounded in the
- October 29, 2024
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"Everything I Do is Me" - Gwen Frostic
How does one interpret art? How does one view activism or protest? These concepts have merged for centuries to convey a message and drive change. “Activist Art,” as defined by the Tate Museum in London, is “a term used to describe art grounded in the
- The Long March to Voting Rights - In 1965, all eyes turned to Selma, Alabama, as the next stage in the fight for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and other activists planned a series of marches from Selma to Montgomery to draw attention to the continued struggle for voting rights for Black Americans.
- March 20, 2026
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The Long March to Voting Rights
In 1965, all eyes turned to Selma, Alabama, as the next stage in the fight for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and other activists planned a series of marches from Selma to Montgomery to draw attention to the continued struggle for voting rights for Black Americans.
- Hospitality in the Jackson Home - The Jackson Home was known as “The House by the Side of the Road” for the way it welcomed everyone who came by. It was this welcoming spirit that would place the home at the center of history, as the struggle for Civil Rights came to Selma in 1965.
- April 21, 2026
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Hospitality in the Jackson Home
The Jackson Home was known as “The House by the Side of the Road” for the way it welcomed everyone who came by. It was this welcoming spirit that would place the home at the center of history, as the struggle for Civil Rights came to Selma in 1965.
- Hosting a Movement: Hospitality in the Jackson Home - The Jackson Home was known as “The House by the Side of the Road” for the way it welcomed everyone who came by. It was this welcoming spirit that would place the home at the center of history, as the struggle for Civil Rights came to Selma in 1965.
- April 21, 2026
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Hosting a Movement: Hospitality in the Jackson Home
The Jackson Home was known as “The House by the Side of the Road” for the way it welcomed everyone who came by. It was this welcoming spirit that would place the home at the center of history, as the struggle for Civil Rights came to Selma in 1965.
- Thinking on Paper: Notebooks, Sketches, and Jot Books - <p>Jotting, doodling, and sketching serves many purposes. These processes can help us organize our thoughts, convey the inner workings of our brain, or respond to the world around us. Relaxed or formal, rushed or intentional, sketches and jottings help reveal our minds. </p>
- May 04, 2026
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Thinking on Paper: Notebooks, Sketches, and Jot Books
Jotting, doodling, and sketching serves many purposes. These processes can help us organize our thoughts, convey the inner workings of our brain, or respond to the world around us. Relaxed or formal, rushed or intentional, sketches and jottings help reveal our minds.
- RuPaul, Drag Race, and the “Werk” that Came Before - RuPaul Charles was born on November 17, 1960 in San Diego, California. His parents, Ernestine “Toni” Fontinette and Irving Charles, divorced by the time he was seven; although Ru and his three sisters would continue to live with their mother, older t
- October 16, 2023
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RuPaul, Drag Race, and the “Werk” that Came Before
RuPaul Charles was born on November 17, 1960 in San Diego, California. His parents, Ernestine “Toni” Fontinette and Irving Charles, divorced by the time he was seven; although Ru and his three sisters would continue to live with their mother, older t
- Thoughtfully Crafted: Sustainable Products from Liberty Craftworks - At The Henry Ford, we have dedicated teams of craftspeople that create beautiful products in our Pottery, Glass, Weaving, and Print Shops that make up Liberty Craftworks in Greenfield Village. While these artisans use historic techniques, they also do their fair share of innovation. One of the areas in which we have recently expanded is in our offering of products from Liberty Craftworks that utilize recyclable material sourced on-site.
- October 16, 2025
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Thoughtfully Crafted: Sustainable Products from Liberty Craftworks
At The Henry Ford, we have dedicated teams of craftspeople that create beautiful products in our Pottery, Glass, Weaving, and Print Shops that make up Liberty Craftworks in Greenfield Village. While these artisans use historic techniques, they also do their fair share of innovation. One of the areas in which we have recently expanded is in our offering of products from Liberty Craftworks that utilize recyclable material sourced on-site.