For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
FAIN: GE-50082-08
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD 21250-0001)
Maurice Berger (Project Director: January 2008 to May 2010)
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a film festival, a website, and related educational and public programs exploring how visual images shaped and transformed the fight for civil rights in the U.S.
Organized by Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in partnership with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights represents the first comprehensive exhibition and publication to look at the role played by visual images in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for civil rights in the United States. It will look at images in both high and popular culture, tracking the ways they represented race in order to perpetuate the status quo, stimulate dialogue, or change prevailing beliefs and attitudes. It will argue that the birth of the modern civil rights movement in the 1940s was to a great degree coextensive with the birth of television and the rise of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media, effectively capitalizing on the power of visual images to convince and persuade.
Associated Products
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Exhibition)Title: For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Curator: Maurice Berger
Abstract: For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. For All the World to See includes a traveling exhibition, website, online film festival, and richly illustrated companion book.
Year: 2010
Primary URL:
http://www.foralltheworldtosee.orgPrimary URL Description: Comprehensive website of the FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE project; it includes an online version of the exhibition, book page, online film festival, full-dress educational resources page (including 11 curriculum guides for K-12, Adults, and Families, and a news and events page.
Prizes
Curatorial Award of Excellence, The Outstanding Exhibition in a University Museum, 2010
Date: 5/18/2011
Organization: Association of Art Museum Curators
Abstract: Maurice Berger, the curator and project director of For All the World to See, received a curatorial award for the Outstanding Exhibition in a University Art Museum 2010 from the Association of Art Museum Curators in a ceremony at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The AAMC prizes are among the highest honor afforded museum curators in the United States and Canada and the only awards voted on by curators themselves. Each year our awards stand as the high-water mark for acknowledging the exemplary work of curators from across North America, “ says Sally Block, Executive Director of the Association of Art Museum Curators, “What is most impressive is the these are the only awards given to curators by their peers.” In addition to FATWTS, this year's winners include curators from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Cincinnati Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Finalist, National Book Award
Date: 5/20/2011
Organization: Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis
Abstract: The companion book of For All the World to See was named as a finalist for the National Book Award of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change of the University of Memphis. The award recognizes a publication that best advances an understanding of the American civil rights movement and its legacy.
Emmy Award (Nomination)
Date: 2/17/2011
Organization: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter
Abstract: The PBS Sunday Arts segment about For All the World to See that aired in August 2010 was nominated for a New York Emmy Award in the category of HISTORICAL/CULTURAL: PROGRAM FEATURE/SEGMENT. Both Cara Cosentino, segment producer, and FATWTS curator Maurice Berger were nominated for their work on the piece.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Art & Architecture, 2010
Date: 9/20/2010
Organization: American Library Association, CHOICE Magazine
Abstract: The American Library Association named For All The World To See: Visual Culture and Struggle For Civil Rights (Yale,2010) a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Art and Architecture, 2010
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Exhibition)Title: For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Curator: Maurice Berger
Abstract: For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. For All the World to See includes a traveling exhibition, website, online film festival, and richly illustrated companion book.
Year: 2010
Primary URL:
http://www.foralltheworldtosee.orgPrimary URL Description: Comprehensive website of the FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE project; it includes an online version of the exhibition, book page, online film festival, full-dress educational resources page (including 11 curriculum guides for K-12, Adults, and Families, and a news and events page.
Prizes
Curatorial Award of Excellence, The Outstanding Exhibition in a University Museum, 2010
Date: 5/18/2011
Organization: Association of Art Museum Curators
Abstract: Maurice Berger, the curator and project director of For All the World to See, received a curatorial award for the Outstanding Exhibition in a University Art Museum 2010 from the Association of Art Museum Curators in a ceremony at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The AAMC prizes are among the highest honor afforded museum curators in the United States and Canada and the only awards voted on by curators themselves. Each year our awards stand as the high-water mark for acknowledging the exemplary work of curators from across North America, “ says Sally Block, Executive Director of the Association of Art Museum Curators, “What is most impressive is the these are the only awards given to curators by their peers.” In addition to FATWTS, this year's winners include curators from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Cincinnati Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Art & Architecture, 2010
Date: 9/20/2011
Organization: American Library Association, CHOICE Magazine
Abstract: The American Library Association named For All The World To See: Visual Culture and Struggle For Civil Rights (Yale,2010) a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Art and Architecture, 2010
Emmy Award (Nomination)
Date: 2/17/2011
Organization: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter
Abstract: The PBS Sunday Arts segment about For All the World to See that aired in August 2010 was nominated for a New York Emmy Award in the category of HISTORICAL/CULTURAL: PROGRAM FEATURE/SEGMENT. Both Cara Cosentino, segment producer, and FATWTS curator Maurice Berger were nominated for their work on the piece.
Finalist, National Book Award
Date: 5/20/2011
Organization: Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis
Abstract: The companion book of For All the World to See was named as a finalist for the National Book Award of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change of the University of Memphis. The award recognizes a publication that best advances an understanding of the American civil rights movement and its legacy.