Exhibits at Adriance Memorial Library
Every year, in honor of Black History Month, CAS sets up new displays in the Adriance Memorial Library of the Poughkeepsie Library District available for viewing. Exhibits are located on both the ground floor and in the rotunda on the second floor.
The intricate and beautiful jewelery of the Maasai people of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, charged with significance from the color of the beads to their carefully woven pattern, featuring an essay by Jen Brown.
Posters from our brilliant students who participated in the CAS Youth Summer Program in previous years, tackling themes of mass incarceration, radical imagining, Poughkeepsie’s legacy of slavery, and conceptions of beauty.
A brief historic perspective on the African-American Black Jews and the Jews of Color from the Caribbean and Latin America in the US in the early 1900s. Curated by Mordekai Gordon, former President & Spiritual Leader of Mount Horeb Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Bronx, NY.
93 Market St Poughkeepsie, NY, Library Hours:
Mon - Thurs 9AM-8:30PM
Fri-Sat 9am-5pm
Sunday 1-5pm