Location: Temporary Exhibition Gallery on Level 1 & the Ancient World in Level 2
Registration requested.

Join us for an evening of music and drawing in Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture and the Ancient World. An instructor is available to help develop your sketching skills—whether you’re a beginner, student, or practicing artist of any age. Live music by Peabody Institute students enlivens the spaces and keeps the creativity flowing. Just bring your interest in drawing—we’ll provide the materials!

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Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture is dedicated to jewelry artist Douriean Fletcher, whose work has shaped the cinematic worlds of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther films and Coming 2 America. The exhibition explores the self-taught metalsmith’s jewelry as a powerful narrative tool in art, Black identity, and visual storytelling and spotlights works from the Walters collection that inspired the artist. The exhibition is on view from April 18 to August 9 in our Temporary Exhibition Gallery on Level 1. 

Available Resources: Accessible drawing supplies, assistive listening devices, headphones, sensory kits
Accessibility resources and accommodations are available for programs and events. Visit our accessibility web page for more information. Please email [email protected] with questions and requests. 

About the Instructor

Mariia Usova is an educator and interdisciplinary artist working across glass sculpture, oil painting, and silk embroidery. Drawing on her training in fine arts and continental philosophy, her work investigates traces of temporality and human subjectivity through materials that retain the memory of their liquid origins, from molten glass to pigment and silk. Usova holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)  and a dual BA in Liberal Arts from Bard College (NY) and Saint Petersburg State University, Smolny College. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has taught at the Walters Art Museum, Loyola University Maryland, UMBC, and the Keswick Multi-Care Center.