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Photo detail credit The Bassist by David Driskell
February
Lincoln: Man, Myth and Memory
February 12, 2009 to July 5, 2009
In celebration of the Lincoln's Bicentennial, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture examines Lincoln's reflection in Black America with the exhibition Lincoln: Man, Myth, and Memory. With material drawn from The Amistad Center's historical collection as well as loans from contemporary artists, the exhibition explores Lincoln's role in the Civil War, his post-assassination emergence as a national celebrity, and the president's place in African American public memory.
Sponsored by Lincoln Financial Foundation
Additional support from the J. Walton Bissell Foundation
Abraham Lincoln by
Raymond A. Katz
May
Age in America May 14, 2009 - August 28, 2009
Age in America is a two year long national demonstration project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as a complement to the Libraries for the Future's effort to enhance libraries as centers for older adults. Our goal is to model how museums and libraries working together can inform public discussion and strengthen public understanding of the coming "age wave" as an historical and cultural phenomenon. The Amistad Center for Art & Culture and the Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library were chosen along with institutional partners in Norfolk, Virginia and Long Island, New York and challenged to present complementary and coordinated programs for public audiences that uniquely explore the topic of Age in America through the lens of our own collections, goals, resources and constituencies. ...AGE is our response.
Our project began with a conversation about the word "age" and how it is ever-present in our language in various forms. ...AGE commenced with the selection of collection material and the response to the objects by members of The Amistad Center's TAG (Teen Advisory Group) and adult members of our community. These participants were also asked to choose an "age" word that best reflected their response to the artifact, like courage, or voyage. The videotaped narratives and the objects, in turn, inspired poems by poets from the Hill-Stead Museum Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. And finally two young artists from the Hartford Art School engaged the objects and the poems to create the banners in which image beautifully meets message on Main Street.
Thank you to all of the participants who shared their memories, feelings, and talent to make this public art possible.
The participating members of The Amistad Center's Teen Advisory Group....Kristal Carter, Vivian Gay, Brittany Golding, Maya Hawkins Nelson, Rayshawn Robinson and Chanel Ross; Catherine Blinder; Luis Cotto, Joseph R. Gianni, Lee Mixashawn Rozie, Alyce T. Rawlins, Francesca Reale, and George Scott; Susan Campbell; Cindy Cormier and the Hill-Stead Museum Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival and poets Ernie Blue, John Harrity, Bessy Reyna, Rennie McQuilkin, Pit Menousek Pinegar, and Elizabeth Thomas; artists, Hali Miller and Sharneil Paynter; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; the Ella Burr McManus Trustees; the Nutmeg Exhibit Company;Hog River Journal; Local color Ink; and former Chief Librarian Louise Blalock.
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July
September