GE-50082-08 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Planning | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights | 8/1/2008 - 11/30/2009 | $40,000.00 | Maurice | | Berger | | | | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Baltimore | MD | 21250-0001 | USA | 2008 | U.S. History | Exhibitions: Planning | Public Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 | 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. |
GE-50808-13 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Jewish Museum | Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television | 8/1/2013 - 7/31/2014 | $40,000.00 | Maurice | | Berger | | | | Jewish Museum | New York | NY | 10128-0118 | USA | 2013 | Art History and Criticism | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Public Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 | Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website and programs about the influence of avant-garde art on the development of network television from the early 1940s through the mid 1960s.
Funds are requested to support planning for "Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television," a traveling exhibition, catalog, and website, the first exhibition to analyze how avant-garde art of the early to mid-20th century influenced and shaped early network television. The project also examines how avant-garde artists contributed to network programs and design campaigns, appeared on TV to promote modern art, or explored the new medium in their work. A joint project of The Jewish Museum and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the project's director is Dr. Maurice Berger. The exhibition introduces audiences to an untold story and is expected to travel to 6 U.S. venues. Grant funds will assist with research costs, scholar honoraria, a microwebsite for audience evaluation and pre-marketing, film editing and rights clearances, and curator travel for research and venue development. |
GI-50135-09 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights | 8/1/2009 - 7/31/2013 | $400,000.00 | Maurice | | Berger | | | | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Baltimore | MD | 21250-0001 | USA | 2009 | Arts, General | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition with a catalog, a website, and public and school programs about how photographs and media images were used to influence attitudes toward racial equality and African American culture during the fight to achieve civil rights.
Organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) in partnership with the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights represents the first comprehensive exhibition and publication to analyze the historical role played by visual images in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for civil rights in the United States. It will explore the ways this imagery represented race in order to perpetuate the status quo, stimulate dialogue, or change prevailing beliefs and attitudes. It will examine the extent to which the birth of the modern civil rights movement was 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 alter perceptions about race. |