Light Your Own Path

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Museum Educator Lauren Richard led families through a fun, interactive program exploring the meaning of faith through light. Together, they discovered the significance of light in African American spiritual practices and designed and created their own paper lantern—a symbol of the optimism we all carry within.

 
Girl with hair in twisted buns crafts a lantern using gold paper and scissors at a table in a museum classroom.

Child begins to craft the lantern designed during the program.

Girl with a pink bow reaches into her glowing pink paper lantern, another lit lantern beside her on the table.

Child lights their lantern designed and created during the program.

 
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