BLAX Museum 2026 - East Cleveland Public Library

Name: BLAX Museum 2026 - East Cleveland Public Library
Start: 2026-02-21T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-21T16:00:00-05:00
Location: East Cleveland Public Library

Schedule

Sat Feb 21 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

East Cleveland Public Library | East Cleveland, OH

BLAX Museum is an annual performance showcase created by poet Michelle R. Smith that is open to all forms and dedicated to honoring notable Black figures in American history and culture.
The program features Black artists from all over Northeast Ohio, celebrating our ancestors through inspired tributes, original art, and even educational presentations.
Since its inception, BLAX MUSEUM has staged music, poetry, speeches, monologues, photography, and even stand-up comedy dedicated to such heroes, icons, and innovators as Maya Angelou, Crispus Attucks, Josephine Baker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Octavia Butler, Lucille Clifton, George Clinton, John Coltrane, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, "Stagecoach" Mary Fields, Aretha Franklin, Nikki Giovanni, Fannie Lou Hamer, Fred Hampton, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, bell hooks, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, George Jackson, Mahalia Jackson, Mae Jemison, Marsha P. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Henrietta Lacks, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Gordon Parks, Richard Pryor, Paul Robeson, Asaata Shakur, Ntozake Shange, Nina Simone, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, and Winston E. Willis, among many revered others.
The event happens every February at its "home": the East Cleveland Public Library.
Join us again on Saturday, February 21 from 2:00-4:00pm in the ECPL Main Auditorium for BLAX Museum 2026.
FREE FOR ALL AGES.