Learning at Lunch: The Smithsonian and Lorton

Friday, August 22, 2025

12:00 PM 1:00 PM

Workhouse Arts Center, W16: McGuire Woods Gallery

The Smithsonian and Lorton

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum (ACM) has a long history of engagement with the Lorton Correctional Complex. Archivist Jennifer Morris shares information and examples of archival materials – images and video footage – from ACM’s collection pertaining to 1970s exhibition Lorton Reformatory: Beyond Time and the 1990s exhibition Speak to my Heart, which highlighted prison ministry programs.

Above image: Installation photograph from The Utopia Project exhibition (2024) at the Anacostia Community Museum.

Free, no registration required.

9518 Workhouse Way

Lorton, Virginia

22079