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Dyckman Farmhouse: Jamaicanisms – Jhanique Lovejoy & Kat Thompson in Conversation

Join us for Jamaicanisms: Jhanique Lovejoy & Kat Thompson in Conversation, a talk centered on family archives as living repositories of Black history,  inviting the community into a dialogue about memory, storytelling, and archival ethics, situating domestic archives.

Hosted by Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, the conversation features Jhanique Lovejoy and Kat Thompson discussing Lovejoy’s exhibition Soon Come, Likkle More and their respective artistic practices as Jamaican-American artists. Through photography and textiles, Lovejoy and Thompson examine Black memory, family histories, and the material traces of the Jamaican diaspora.

Cost: Free.  RSVP Required: register on Eventbrite!

Jhanique Lovejoy (b. 2001) is a New York imagemaker whose practice engages with multiplicity through the lens of race and culture. Lovejoy is known for her deeply intimate portrayals of her relationships as a queer Jamaican-American artist, encompassing both familial and romantic connections. Utilizing alternative processes, collage, and insights from her musicological studies, she explores themes of family archives, love, and the preservation of Black family history. 

Kat Thompson (b. 1991) is a lens-based artist and educator based in Virginia. Her interdisciplinary practice spans photography, video, textiles, sculptural collage, and installation. Through layering and material juxtaposition, she examines how images and objects function as vessels for memory, history, and identity, with a particular focus on the African Diaspora. Her work considers the construction of Black selfhood, exploring how cultural memory, ancestral inheritance, and lived experience converge across personal and collective narratives. 

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: Archiving Black Family Histories with Jhanique Lovejoy

Join us for a free digitizing workshop and community discussion about Black diasporic archival traditions with artist Jhanique Lovejoy!

Through a guided discussion with Dyckman Farmhouse Museum’s current exhibiting artist Jhanique Lovejoy, participants will explore the role of family photographs in Caribbean and Black diasporic archival traditions, oral histories, and intergenerational preservation.

Moving from discussion to practice, participants will engage directly with archival tools and methods by digitizing personal photographs, negatives, and ephemera from their own family archives with a high-resolution scanner provided at the workshop!

Participants will also browse examples of Caribbean archival history and preservation practices, gaining foundational knowledge in archival processes, digitization, and the creation of archival ephemera.

What to bring:

  • five 4×6 or 5×7 sized photos from your family archive OR
  • one 8×10 photos and two 4×6 or 5×7 photos from your family archive.
    Optional: Instead of bringing 2-5 4×6 or 5×7 photos, participants may bring 2-5 negatives, newspaper clippings, and archival documents from their family archive instead. Each participant will receive an archival-safe polysleeve to properly store their family photos and a personal USB containing their scanned photos from the workshop.

Free – RSVP Required: Register on Eventbrite! Only 15 seats available.

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: 1776 – A Defining Moment in the Story of Northern Manhattan with Don Rice

Join us for a free, in-person lecture about the American Revolution and Northern Manhattan history at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum!

Nearly 250 years ago, in November 1776, Dyckman was consumed by warfare.

Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers attacked the hillsides and overwhelmed the American defenses there. For the next seven years, occupying forces sucked the area dry, leaving behind a countryside devoid of natural resources and pockmarked with wrecked farmsteads and roads. It was a defining moment in Inwood’s past.

Using primary sources and rare images, we’ll relive the events that led up to the battle of Fort Washington in 1776.

Come learn about the Dyckman family’s role in trying to protect the neighborhood and their home, and discover if anything still remains from those tumultuous times.

FREE, but RSVP Required: Register on Eventbrite

Don Rice was board president of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance from 2016-2025. In 2009, he founded the “Lost Inwood” series of popular local history talks and almost a decade later, in 2019, Rice co-authored a book of the same name with fellow local historian Cole Thompson. He’s lived with his family in North Manhattan for more than 25 years and is retired from a career in the Broadway Music field.

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: Reading the Declaration of Independence with Robert Snyder

Join us for a free, interactive, roundtable discussion about the Declaration of Independence on Dyckman Farmhouse Museum’s back porch!

Led by Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University Robert Snyder, participants will engage with select excerpts from the Declaration of Independence through close-reading exercises and discussion questions:

What does the Declaration suggest about its authors’ beliefs and grievances in 1776?  What does the Declaration mean to us today?  In 2026, what is the legacy of the American Revolution?  Bring your questions, arguments, and concerns to this Back Porch History! Class is officially in session!

Registered participants will electronically receive guidelines and a 2-page .pdf version of the Declaration of Independence to review before the discussion. Copies will also be available at the event.

Free — RSVP Required: register on Eventbrite

Robert Snyder is the Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University. He is the author of Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York and When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers. Previously, Snyder served as the Manhattan Borough Historian for six years and was a Fulbright lecturer of American Studies in South Korea.