The fall issue of UMBC Magazine features a three part feature on For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. The text, written by CADVC research professor and chief curator Maurice Berger, analyzes a selection of objects in the exhibition. There is also a profile of and an interview with Dr. Berger, but the interview appears only in the online version.

The exhibition has been touring the US since 2010 when it opened in NY. Both the exhibition and the book, by the same title, have won many accolades, including a tour through the NEH on the Road initiative, which travels sponsored exhibitions nation wide. More info is available--as well as a virtual exhibition version of the project--on our website at foralltheworldtosee.org.

As UMBC anticipates the exhibition finally coming "home" to CADVC this November 15, 2012 through Mar. 10, 2013, we have planned a number of related programs throughout the coming months.

For more information on our related oral history program, For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights, see foralltheworldtohear.org. There you will read about CADVC's outreach project with the Baltimore senior citizen community. We have also posted a schedule of live theatre presentations, at which attendees will witness live, first-person accounts of the amazing stories we have collected from those active in the civil rights movement.

UMBC's Humanities Forum will also be presenting several lectures and panel discussions on the civil rights movement, including a discussion between Julian Bond and Freeman Hrabowski, among others. For more details see this link.

CADVC's traveling exhibition, "Migrate," opens this weekend at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. Learn more about the installation and events there on CAC's exhibition page or local station WBOK's site.

Where Do We Migrate To?, curated by CADVC guest curator Niels Van Tomme, explores contemporary issues of migration and experiences of displacement and exile. The exhibition features work in diverse media by 19 internationally recognized artists and collectives including Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy, Andrea Geyer, Isola and Norzi, Kimsooja, Pedro Lasch, Adrian Piper, Raqs Media Collective, Société Réaliste, Julika Rudelius, Xaviera Simmons, Fereshteh Toosi, Philippe Vandenberg, and Eric Van Hove.

The award-winning scholarly catalogue can be purchased through D.A.P.

Image: Xaviera Simmons, (detail) Superunknown, (Alive In The), 2010, C-prints mounted on Sintra, dimensions/size of installation variable, first produced for Greater New York 2010 MoMA/PS1

This project was made possible, in part, with the support of the Flemish Government through Flanders House.

The 2012-13 UMBC Humanities Forum series will feature several events in conjunction with CADVC's exhibit, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 15 Nov. 2012 to 10 March 2013

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CADVC welcomes guest curators Heiferman & Van Tomme for their future projects, Sciences, Photography and Visual Culture and Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen, respectively. Dates will soon be announced.

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Category: Scholarly journals
Title: Visual Culture and Evolution: An Online Symposium
Designed by: Guenet Abraham

The University and College Designers Association's 42nd Annual UCDA Design Competition has awarded Professor Abraham two awards for her design of the CADVC's Visual Culture and Evolution book. Visual Culture and Evolution will be on display at the UCDA's Annual Design Conference, October 13th through 16th in Montreal, Canada.

She received Awards for Excellence in the following categories:
Research Publication & Book - Complete Unit

Congratulations Professor Abraham!

CADVC was selected as a winner of the 2012 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition. Within the category of institutions with budgets less than $750,000, judges awarded the following:

Category: Scholarly journals
Title: Visual Culture and Evolution: An Online Symposium
Designed by: Guenet Abraham
Award: Second Prize

Category: Exhibition catalogues
Title: Where Do We Migrate To?
Designed by: Kelley Bell
Award: First Prize

A complete list of winners will be available soon on the association’s website (www.aam-us.org) and the competition will be featured in a special section in the November/December issue of Museum. We also will display the grand prize winner, along with selected first prize winners, at the convention center during the 2012 AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo™ in Minneapolis Saint Paul, April 29-May 2.

The CADVC suffered extensive damage due to a water main break. The gallery will reopen to the public in November with For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

Please check back for updates or call 410-455-3188.

"A UMBC exhibition uses modern technology to make magic..." Published
April 4th, 2012 in the City paper.

Read the article here!

All are welcome to come and see Rush Hour: New Works for Disklavier
on April 12th, 4pm at the CADVC Gallery!

NOTICE: this performance is postponed due to water main break, new date/time TBA

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Here is an excellent article on the road version of For All the
World to See--the cover story in yesterday's Sunday Magazine
of the Kansas City Star.

Read the article here...