{"id":90508,"date":"2026-01-19T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90508\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:31:08","slug":"community-members-get-inspired-through-art-at-african-american-museum-in-philadelphia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90508\/","title":{"rendered":"Community members get inspired through art at African American Museum in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local artists lead their own workshop at the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This includes Richard Watson, one of the collaborators behind the murals at the Church of the Advocate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All of this was to honor Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We have a mission where we want to bring people together&#8230;in greater appreciation of the black experience through history, art and culture. This weekend, the museum is celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, and we&#8217;re doing so with a robust lineup of events,&#8221; said President &amp; CEO of AAMP Dr. Ashley Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For Martin Luther King Jr. Day tomorrow, they are hosting guests on free admission, where people can experience the Ruth E. Carter Exhibit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This impressive collection displays costumes from popular movies that Carter worked on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also, check out their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aampmuseum.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local artists lead their own workshop at the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) today. This includes Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35459,7343,44682,44680,69,71,70,44681],"class_list":["post-90508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-aamp","tag-african-american-museum","tag-church-of-the-advocate","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-richard-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}