Senior Exit Exhibition at CADVC (5/21-6/7)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is pleased to present the 2013 Senior Exit Exhibition opening in the CADVC, Tuesday, May 21. A free opening reception will take place on the 21st from 5 to 7 pm.

This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the Department of Visual Arts, and provides the opportunity for undergraduate seniors to exhibit within a professional setting prior to exiting the university.

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. Admission is free and open to the public.

The Senior Exit Exhibition continues through Friday, June 7.

Image by Lauren DeMarsh.

For All the World to Hear to Present at AAM Meeting

For All The World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights, an oral history, outreach project of the CADVC, will present the session “Storytelling from Page to Stage: An Oral History Community Project” at the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) annual Meeting and Museum Expo.

The session, scheduled for Monday, May 20 from 1:45-3:00 p.m. in the Baltimore Convention Center, will tell the tale of the creation and production of For All the World to Hear. Harriet Lynn, director of the project, Sandra Abbott, CADVC, producer of For All the World to Hear, and Carrie Rennolds, graduate student, will present alongside participants in the project, who will share stories of their experience before and during the American civil rights movement.

Learn more about the session at the AAM article, “2013 AAM Annual Meeting Theme: The Power of Story,” or visit foralltheworldtohear.org.

For All the World to See Highlight of Addison Gallery Exhibition Series

The traveling exhibition For All the World to See: Visual Culture the Struggle for Civil Rights curated by Maurice Berger, CADVC, and organized by the CADVC opens Saturday, April 13 in the Addison Gallery of American Art of Andover, Massachusetts, and continues through July 31.

An opening reception for the exhibit, as well as two other spring exhibitions in the Addison Gallery, will take place Friday, April 26, 6 pm to 8 pm in the Addison. Additional programming inspired by the exhibition includes a panel discussion titled “Voices of a Generation: The View from Andover Hill,” featuring Phililips Academy faculty and alumni who will discuss their personal experiences as part of the American civil rights movement.

Department of Education and CADVC Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schools

UMBC’s Department of Education joins the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) to celebrate their year long K-12 Educational Outreach Collaboration with an art exhibition by students from their partnership schools.

After experiencing the CADVC gallery and/or virtual exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, the students were invited to create visual artwork, poetry, or prose for display at UMBC as well. Their work is a creative interpretation of the interaction between visual culture and social justice.

The exhibition is featured at the UMBC Commons Mezzanine Gallery beginning with an artist’s reception Thursday, April 11, 6 – 8 pm. It will be on display to the public through May 23, 2013.  The Commons is open Monday – Thursday 7:30am – 12pm, Friday 7:30am – 1am, Saturday 8am – 1am, and Sunday 10am – 11pm.

The installation features original artwork by three Baltimore City schools (Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, Baltimore City College High School, and Digital Harbor High School), Mt. Hebron High School in Howard County, and Hugh M. Cummings High School in North Carolina. Baltimore City College High School, Digital Harbor High School, and Mt. Hebron High School are Professional Development School partners with UMBC’s Department of Education.

The Galleries at the Commons, UMBC are free and open to the public. For parking directions or maps, visit about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide.

Project supporters include USM Redesign of Teacher Education Grant Program, UMBC’s commonvision, and Maryland State Arts Council.

More information is available on the For All the World to See exhibition at foralltheworldtosee.org.

Collage of For All the World to Hear in Afro-American

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Last week, The Afro-American created and published a full-color collage featuring scenes from the CADVC’s outreach project, For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights, in it’s print and digital editions. The photos were taken during its final performance, February 23, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Main Branch.

Click the image to view a larger version of the collage, or see the image at Afro.com.

‘For All the World to See’ in Arbutus Patch

A recent visit by students of Mount Hebron High to the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture’s current exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, was featured in an article in the Arbutus Patch.

Read “Local High Schools to Visit UMBC Exhibition Thursday” at Patch.com.

The high school group, is one of several to visit the exhibition, in a project in which visiting students are encouraged to create their own “social justice-inspired artwork” following the visit. A collection of the student artwork is currently scheduled to be displayed in April 2013.

For All the World to Hear Featured on WJZ

Robert Houston, photographer

“What we take for granted now has not always been that way. Someone had to pay for that. It cost dearly. Some people gave their lives and careers,” says Robert Houston, discussing the battle for equality during the American civil rights movement in an interview with WJZ. Robert Houston is one of ten storytellers involved in the CADVC community outreach project, For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights, and one of a number of people, including project coordinator Sandra Abbott of the  CADVC, interviewed in a segment for CBS Baltimore.

The feature relates the For All the World to Hear performance at the Maryland Historical Society, to the gallery exhibition on display there and the impact of Baltimore’s diverse communities in the civil rights movement.

Read more, and watch the feature, “Oral, Visual History Exhibit Showcases Civil Rights in Baltimore.”

For All the World to Hear (2/15)

A project of the CADVC, For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights, returns to campus Friday, February 15 at 10:30 a.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall.

For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil RIghts is a spellbinding humanities project in which 10 Baltimore area seniors communicate personal stories about their involvement with the struggle for civil rights. A community outreach program of the CADVC, the project brings diverse seniors together for a series of oral history interviews.

The featured senior performers will work with UMBC to help them translate their stories into a digital video format. The final results will be published on UMBC’s digital storytelling site and distributed online via iTunes U. A short documentary film will record the entire program ending in May 2013 with the web launch of the digital stories.

A preview of the performance is available here.

This performance is part of the project’s four month tour with performances at local museums, college campuses, museums and parks.

For All the World to Hear Interview to Air on The Signal (2/8, 2/9)

An interview with Sandra Abbott, Curator of Collections and Outreach for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, and Harriet Lynn, Oral Historian and Producer/Artistic Director of Heritage Theatre Artists’ Consortium, is scheduled to air this Friday on The Signal. In the interview, Abbott and Lynn discuss a community outreach project of the CADVC, For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights (organized by Abbott and Lynn).

To listen, tune in to WYPR on Friday, February 8 at 7 p.m. or on Saturday, February 9 at 1p.m. when it re-airs.

A preview of For All the World to Hear, debuted at UMBC in November. The full program will return to campus on Friday, February 15.

For All the World to Hear is NEH’s Featured Project

For All the World to Hear sponsor, the National Endowment for the Humanities, has selected the CADVC outreach program as its “Featured Project”. The NEH’s website describes the program, and discusses its connection the exhibition currently on display in the CADVC, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

Learn more about For All the World to Hear at foralltheworldtohear.org.