Joy Goddess at Hillwood Museum in Washington, DC

This is the first program in Hillwood’s Great Homes and Gardens lecture series.

A’Lelia Bundles returns to Hillwood to share vintage photographs and stories from Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, the first major biography of her great-grandmother and namesake. Best known as the daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, A’Lelia Walker was a charismatic influencer and arts patron in her own right who traveled internationally and hosted some of the Jazz Age’s most memorable soirees at her Westchester mansion, Harlem townhouse and uptown pied-a-terre.

A’Lelia will sign copies of  Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance following the lecture.