NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE TOUR

MEMBER MEET-UP: after hours GUIDED TOUR​
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
1400 CONSTITUTION AVE NW
WASHINGTON DC 20560

Saturday, January 10, 2026 | 5:30pm

Join fellow JRACraft members for a members-only after-hours tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with Dr. Diana Baird N'Diaye, Creative Director of the African American Craft Alliance, and Dr. Joanne Hyppolite, Supervisory Curator of the National Museum African American History and Culture!

After the museum closes to the public, JRACraft and AACA members will get an exclusive look at craft objects throughout several of NMAAHC's current exhibits.
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Dr. Diana Baird N'Diaye

Dr. Diana Baird N'Diaye is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, curator, writer, and transcontinental arts advocate of Barbadian and Guyanese descent. She combines decades of experience as a cultural heritage scholar at the Smithsonian Institution with leadership in the craft field. N'Diaye's signature long term project, “The Will to Adorn: African American Style and the Aesthetics of Identity" explores the diverse dynamics of personal adornment in the African diaspora. She recently curated the U.S. participation in DakArt in Senegal,  the largest biennale in Africa, and currently directs the African American Craft Alliance.  She is a recipient of multiple awards including the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize. N’Diaye is an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. ​

Dr. Joanne Hyppolite

Joanne Hyppolite was born in Haiti and grew up in Boston, MA. She is the African Diaspora curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. Prior to joining the Smithsonian in 2014, she was the Chief Curator at HistoryMiami Museum for eight years. Joanne has published two popular middle-grade novels for children with Penguin Random House: Seth and Samona which won the Marguerite DeAngeli prize for New Children’s Fiction and Ola Shakes It Up. Her adult fiction has published In the Caribbean Writer and The Butterfly’s Way: Voice from the Haitian Dyaspora. She holds Ph.D. in literature from the University of Miami, an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and B.A. in African American Studies and Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania. Joanne lives in Maryland and Florida. She is Mom to amazing teenager and multidisciplinary artist Charles “Carl” Green, who wanted more real estate in her bios.