Upcoming Events

"Lenape Relationship with the Natural World" - Video Premiere

Saturday, October 12, 2024 - 2 pm
In the Trent House Museum Visitor Center

The official premiere of the second of three videos on Native American history and contemporary issues focused on the Lenape experience in New Jersey will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2024, at 4 pm. This free showing of “Lenape Relationship with the Natural World” will be introduced by Karelle Hall who researched, scripted, and narrated the video. 

​Karelle Hall has recently completed her doctoral studies in anthropology at Rutgers University. She is a member of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe of Delaware where she is actively engaged in language revitalization. She is a frequent speaker on Native American language and culture of the region. Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, American Philosophical Society, and American Ethnological Society. Her work on this video was funded by a grant to the Trent House Association from the New Jersey Council on the Humanities.
 

"Lenape Relationship with the Natural World” explores how language shapes human understandings and interactions
with the natural world. It illustrates how the Lenape continue to act on their responsibilities
​as stewards of the natural world and how this relationship with nature is reflected in human relationships. 

"When They Were Here" - An Immersive Exhibit by Beverly Keese-Kelley

Art All Day, Saturday, September 21, 2024
Extended through Sunday, October 27, 2024

"When They Were Here" is an immersive exhibit presenting a snapshot of those whose stories may not have been told. Beverly Keese-Kelley preserves their forgotten tales through an installation of artifacts, providing a visual journey into the past. With flashes of historical moments of untold and abandoned stories about the African-American experience during  enslavement and beyond, these stories are preserved and the contributions of those who lived them are celebrated. The exhibit travels from venue to venue collecting objects and stories from the public.

Visitors to the Trent House Visitor Center exhibit during Art All Day on September 21, 2024, can work with Beverly to incorporate their artifacts into this ongoing work of art. The exhibit can also be visited through October 27, 2024, each week on  Wednesdays through Sundays, 1:00 to 4:30 pm.

​A Trenton native, multidisciplinary artist Beverly Keese-Kelley began creating art as a youth, under the tutorials of her mother Sudie Keese who taught her sewing, art, and decorating.

She compiles her artwork from a 'sustainable' point of view, using what's readily available such as found, thrifted and recyclable items, all the while using techniques and methods long known to African Artisans.

​Beverly combines her talent for art and crafting with her passion for history and the human experience, to visually articulate an emotional connection to both the past and present existence of the African American Diaspora. 

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Community Yard Sale - Yard Sale Comunitario
Free Food Distribution - Comidas Gratis

Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 11 am to 4 pm

40+ tables with clothing, household items,
​art, jewelry, and other items for sale.

​Free food distribution