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New: Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968
November 8, 2008 - March 9, 2009
This exhibition includes nearly 200 unforgettable images that changed a nation, increasing the momentum of the non-violent movement by raising awareness of injustice and the struggle for equality in the United States. Covering the 12-year period between the Rosa Parks case in 1955-1956 and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, Road to Freedom follows such key events as the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Birmingham hosings of 1963, and the Selma-Montgomery March of 1965.

Images on view are by nearly 50 photographers, including such recognizable figures as Bob Adelman, Morton Broffman, Bruce Davidson, Doris Derby, James Karales, Builder Levy, Steve Schapiro, and Ernest Withers, as well as press photographers and amateur photographers.

Co-sponsored with the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

See related article in Smithsonian magazine: Dec. 2008, pp. 12-14.

Catalogue: $25 (paper); available at the African Art Museum Store

New: After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
November 8, 2008 - March 9, 2009
This exhibition examines the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement while exploring the continuing relevance of progressive social change through the art of the After 1968 artists, a group of young emerging artists born since 1968. These artists approached issues of racial identity, commodity culture, and political action in response to the legacy of the year 1968, when political unrest and social upheaval dominated the landscape. On view are photographs, digital video, prints, and site-specific installations by such artists as Hank Willis Thomas; Deborah Grant; Leslie Hewitt; Otabenga Jones; Adam Pendleton; Nadine Robinson; and Washington, D.C.'s Jefferson Pinder.

Co-sponsored with the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

New: Green Light: A Juried Exhibition of Emerging Artists with Disabilities (new title)
September 17, 2008 - January 21, 2009 (new closing date)
On view are works by 15 award-winning emerging artists with disabilities, ages 16 to 25. Their work reflects their experiences as emerging artists and reveals how their disability has motivated, shaped, and transformed their lives.

This is the 7th juried exhibition for emerging artists with disabilities organized by VSA arts.

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New: Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1949-1989
September 17, 2008 - January 25, 2009 (new closing date)
On view are examples of Puerto Rican poster art from the late 1940s to the late 1980s. Produced by artists enlisted by a government agency known as DivEdCo (Division de Educacion de la Comunidad), these posters were part of a broader effort to stimulate artistic production on the island while transforming its rural population into a model of modern, democratic citizenry.

The posters are from the collection of the Archives Center of the National Museum of American History. The exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center.

Graphic Eloquence: Limited-Edition Prints from The Smithsonian Associates Art Collectors Program
- Permanent
On view are limited-edition works on paper created by American artists -- including Sean Scully, Janet Fish, Wolf Kahn and Elizabeth Catlett -- for the Art Collectors Program, which began in the early 1970's. The works are commissioned annually by the Art Collectors Program and many now hang in the permanent collections of national museums.

Related illustrated list of works

web Web: www.ArtCollectorsProgram.org

Last update: January 13, 2009, 19:24

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