Live music, artist demonstrations from Gullah basket weavers of South Carolina, Kansas City textile artist Nedra Bonds, KC muralist Michael Toombs, and 18th & Vine poet laureate Glenn North. At noon artist Renee Stout will discuss African art, cultural appropriation and healing through creativity.

(Juneteenth is an abbreviation of June 19th, the date in 1865 that Union General Gordon Granger read an order freeing the last slaves in the United States, in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln).

Location Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 45th and Oak, Kansas City, MO