Celebrate and engage with African American art, history and culture on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Allentown Art Museum with free admission and art-making activities that will immerse you and your family in the motifs and imagery explored by prominent African-American artists.

You may be inspired too by meaningful discussions regarding art, history and activism.

The museum will be open Monday from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The schedule is as follows:

At 11 a.m., be transported by the vocal music of Rejoice, the Muhlenberg College gospel choir. This spirit-filled musical ensemble, made up of students from various places, races and creeds, expresses their love of music and passion to praise through song.

At noon, gather around Faith Ringgold’s print “Here Comes Moses” to hear Dianne Smith, museum public engagement manager, read from Ringgold’s book “Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True.”

Tanner’s work, “Lion Licking Paw (1886),” is on display in Trexler Gallery. He painted this work while studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and went on to serve as an inspiration for the Harlem Renaissance artists and generations of painters to come.

From noon to 4 p.m., visit Butz Gallery on the museum’s main floor to get inspired by William T. Williams’ print “Monk’s Tale (2006),” depicting jazz legend Thelonious Monk, then head up to the Crayola Classroom to create your own artwork inspired by the colors, rhythm and characters in Williams’ work.

Also from noon to 4 p.m., use markers and collage materials to make wearable activists’ pins and stickers inspired by Ringgold’s powerful, political artwork “Here Comes Moses (2012),” on display in Butz Gallery.

At 1 p.m., meet filmmaker Mick Caouette. Following a screening of his film, “Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & The NAACP,” and a 10-minute short with Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and John Paul Stevens, Caouette will take questions about Mr. Civil Rights.

This documentary shows how civil rights attorney Marshall’s triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America’s public schools led to the end of legal segregation.

From 2 to 2:45 p.m., listen to a performance by Nikki Powerhouse. The name “Powerhouse” channels energy. She puts it this way:

“My aim is for my audience to have an emotional and spiritual experience. My performance art embodies storytelling, poetry, song and movement. These mediums are a tapestry of freedom, expression, identity, heritage and womanhood.”

At 3:30 p.m., sing with Imani Uzuri’s Revolutionary Choir. All voices are welcome. This is a singing session for anyone who wants to learn traditional protest songs or create new songs of resistance and resilience.

Uzuri is a vocalist, composer and cultural worker who has been called “a postmodernist Bessie Smith” by The Village Voice.

Uzuri creates concerts, experimental theater, performance art, theater compositions, musicals, chamber orchestra compositions and sound installations for international venues/festivals.

She has collaborated with composers and musicians Herbie Hancock, John Legend and Vijay Iyer; conceptual artists Carrie Mae Weems, Wangechi Mutu and Sanford Biggers; choreographers Camille A. Brown and Trajal Harrell; poet Sonia Sanchez; and avant-garde composer Robert Ashley.

Her most recent album, “The Gypsy Diaries,” received critical acclaim.

In 2016 Uzuri made her Lincoln Center American Songbook debut and was also a featured performer on BET for Black Girls Rock!

She recently received her M.A. in African-American studies from Columbia University and was the 2017 keynote/performer at Harvard University’s Graduate Music Forum.

She has written essays for The Feminist Wire and Ebony and her work is currently included in the anthology BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing.

As founder and artistic director of Revolutionary Choir, Time Out New York says Uzuri “never fails to mesmerize audiences with her narcotic blend of … ethereal sounds.”

The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is located 31 N. Fifth St., Allentown.