Art & Democracy Day: Why Art is Essential to Democracy

Join us at the Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC, for an expert panel discussion centering around art's role and importance in democracy. Following the panel, we invite you to stay for a reception.

Why Art is Essential to Democracy Panel: 5:00 - 6:30pm EDT

• Kaywin Feldman, Director, National Gallery of Art
• Drew Lichtenberg, Artistic Producer, the Shakespeare Theatre Company
• Asma Naeem, Director, Baltimore Museum of Art
• Daniel H. Weiss, Homewood Professor of the Humanities, JHU President Emeritus, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reception: 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

• Continue the conversation and see the Hopkins Bloomberg Center art installations

The perspectives and opinions expressed by the speaker(s) during this program are those of the speaker(s) and not, necessarily, those of Johns Hopkins University.    

While participating in off-campus events and meetings sponsored by the JHAA/JHM/JHHS participants must follow all public health guidelines mandated by the local jurisdiction and venue at the time of the event. Johns Hopkins strongly suggests that attendees who join in person receive at least one dose of an FDA- or WHO-authorized COVID-19 vaccine before attending This is subject to change.