# @newarkmuseumart on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-11-17T18:22:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Newark Museum of Art (@newarkmuseumart) — https://gondola.cc/newarkmuseumart

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Coming soon to the Museum! A recently acquired A Century of Education (Century Vase) by Roberto Lugo. This powerful work reimagines American history through a lens often overlooked. Inspired by a vase exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia—which celebrated white leaders and westward expansion—Lugo’s vase centers the transformative power of education for people of color, drawing from his own family’s journey in pursuit of learning.
We celebrated a special event with artist Roberto Lugo at Government House in Annapolis! Maryland’s First Lady Dawn Moore welcomed Lugo and his Four Centuries Vase as part of a reinstallation of diverse artworks in the Governor’s Mansion.

Pictured here: Elaine Rice Bachmann, Maryland State Archivist; Amy Simon Hopwood, NMOA’s Associate Curator of Decorative Arts; and robertolugowithoutwax , the artist himself.

Photo taken by Kellie Finch

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Roberto Lugo, A Century of Education (Century Vase), 2024
Stoneware, enamel, luster, glaze, 15 × 10 1/2 × 8 in.
Purchase 2025 The Newark Museum of Art Acquisition Bequest Fund, Catherine Viviano Fund, Fanny H. Moore Fund, and Emma Fantone Endowment Fund | 2025.8.1
Photograph by Logan Jackson. Courtesy of R & Company

Vase being installed by kevindarmanie 

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