March to June 2014 Calendar
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April to June 2014 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PROGRAMS EXHIBITION OPENINGS APRIL April 2 to May 16 Freedom Summer volunteers registering GAIL BORDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY, locals. From the documentary “American Experience: Freedom Summer” airing Elgin, IL June 24 on PBS Lincoln: The Constitution and (check local listings). the Civil War Courtesy, Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved. Traveling. Organized by the National www.pbs.org/wgbh/ Constitution Center. www.ala.org americanexperience/films/ freedomsummer April 2 to May 16 LILLIE M. EVANS LIBRARY DISTRICT, Princeville, IL Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War Traveling. Organized by the National April 2 to May 16 April 5 Constitution Center. www.ala.org OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, April 2 to May 16 AND OKLAHOMA CIVIL WAR Memphis, TN LINFIELD COLLEGE, JERELD R. SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION, Lorraine Motel Exhibits NICHOLSON LIBRARY, Enid, OK Long-term. www.civilrightsmuseum.org McMinnville, OR Lincoln: The Constitution and April 26 to August 17 Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM, the Civil War Traveling. St. Louis, MO Traveling. April 2 to May 16 American Spirits: The Rise and April 2 to May 16 SOUTH CAROLINA STATE MUSEUM, Fall of Prohibition MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbia, SC Traveling. Organized by the National Mississippi State, MS Constitution Center. constitutioncenter.org Lincoln: The Constitution and Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War April 28 to May 19 the Civil War Traveling. SCOTCH PLAINS PUBLIC LIBRARY, Traveling. Scotch Plains, NJ April 2 to June 13 April 2 to May 16 SPRING LAKE DISTRICT LIBRARY, Civil War 150: Exploring the War OHIO UNIVERSITY, Spring Lake, MI and its Meaning Through the St. Clairsville, OH Lincoln: The Constitution and Words of Those Who Lived It Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. Organized by the Library of the Civil War America. www.gilderlehrman.org/civilwar150 the Civil War Traveling. Traveling. April 28 to May 19 April 2 to May 16 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE Carbondale, IL LIBRARY, Hagerstown, MD Civil War 150: Exploring the War Lincoln: The Constitution and and its Meaning Through the the Civil War Traveling. Words of Those Who Lived It Traveling. 1 May 26 to June 16 May 28 to July 11 AY M GREAT FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY, SOUTH GEORGIA REGIONAL May 9 to August 17 DUSABLE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN Great Falls, MT LIBRARY SYSTEM, Valdosta, GA AMERICAN HISTORY, Chicago, IL Civil War 150: Exploring the War Lincoln: The Constitution and Bandits & Heroes, Poets & and its Meaning Through the the Civil War Traveling. Saints: Popular Art of the Words of Those Who Lived It Traveling. Northeast of Brazil JUNE Traveling. Organized by the Con/Vida - May 28 to July 11 June Popular Arts of the Americas. thewright.org COTTAGE GROVE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Dust, Drought, and Dreams Bradenton, FL May 14 to June 27 Gone Dry MICHIGAN ROUNTABLE FOR Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. Forty sites around the country. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, the Civil War Organized by the American Library Association. www.ala.org Detroit, MI Traveling. Changing America May 28 to July 11 June 7 to September 1 Traveling. Organized by the The American EAST MEADOW PUBLIC LIBRARY, TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM, Library Association, in collaboration with the Austin, TX Smithsonian’s National Museum of African East Meadow, NY American History and Culture and National Lincoln: The Constitution and The 1968 Project Museum of American History. www.ala.org Traveling. Organized by the Minnesota the Civil War Historical Society. www.the1968exhibit.org Traveling. May 14 to June 27 June 14 to September 7 PROMISE LAND COMMUNITY CLUB, May 28 to July 11 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF Charlotte, TN FORT STANTON, Fort Stanton, NM AMERICAN ART, Fort Worth, TX Changing America Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. Archibald Motley: the Civil War Traveling. Jazz Age Modernist May 24 to June 7 Traveling. Organized by Duke University. GRAND CAVERNS PARK, May 28 to July 11 nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/motley Grottoes, VA GRANVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY June 18 to June 22 YSTEM An American Turning Point: S , Oxford, NC DOWNTOWN NORFOLK, The Civil War in Virginia Lincoln: The Constitution and Norfolk, NE Traveling. Organized by the Virginia the Civil War Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Nebraska Chautauqua: Free Traveling. Commission. www.vahistorical.org/what-you- Land? 1862 and the Shaping of can-see/exhibitions/traveling-exhibitions May 28 to July 11 Modern America Traveling. Organized by the Nebraska May 26 to June 16 OCEAN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, Toms River, NJ Humanities Council. CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, www.nebraskahumanities.org New York, NY Lincoln: The Constitution and Civil War 150: Exploring the War the Civil War June 20 to September 21 and its Meaning Through the Traveling. NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART, New Orleans, LA Words of Those Who Lived It May 28 to July 11 Traveling. OTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL Behind Closed Doors: Power and Privilege at Home in SOCIETY, Fergus Falls, MN Lincoln: The Constitution and Spanish America Traveling. Organized by the Brooklyn the Civil War Museum of Art. Traveling. www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/behind _closed_doors/touring.php May 28 to July 11 PEORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY, Peoria, IL Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War Traveling. 2 June 24 to July 14 April 6 to May 25 June 16 to August 11 BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY, YPSILANTI DISTRICT LIBRARY, TUNICA MUSEUM, Tunica, MS Bangor, ME Ypsilanti, MI For All The World To See: Civil War 150: Exploring the War Our Lives, Our Stories: Visual Culture and the and its Meaning Through the America’s Greatest Generation Struggle for Civil Rights Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Traveling. Words of Those Who Lived It Traveling. by the Minnesota Historical Society. June 16 to October 20 June 24 to July 14 April 6 to May 25 MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM PARK CITY LIBRARY, Park City, UT MAIN STREET BEATRICE, & RESEARCH CENTER, Civil War 150: Exploring the War Beatrice, NE Mashantucket, CT and its Meaning Through the House and Home Bison Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Traveling. Words of Those Who Lived It by the National Building Museum. Traveling. April 6 to May 25 June 25 to June 29 WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE, DOWNTOWN SCOTTSBLUFF, Liberty, MO Scottsbluff, NE PROGRAMS AND For All The World To See: Nebraska Chautauqua: Free Visual Culture and the EVENTS Land? 1862 and the Shaping of Struggle for Civil Rights Modern America Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Traveling. by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. America’s Music: A Film History June 29 to September 28 of Our Popular Music from Blues LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF April 6 to May 25 to Bluegrass to Broadway ART, Los Angeles, CA ROWN OUNTY ISTORICAL B C H Public programs organized by the Tribeca Treasures from Korea: Arts and SOCIETY, Hiawatha, KS Film Institute. americasmusic.tribecafilminstitute.org Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, Bison Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized 1392-1910 April 4 to May 2 Traveling. Organized by the Philadelphia by the Trigg C. M. Russell Foundation. Museum of Art. www.philamuseum.org WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE June 16 to October 20 PERFORMING ARTS, Olympia, WA PARK CITY MUSEUM, Park City, UT Created Equal: America’s Civil NEH ON THE ROAD Wild Land: Thomas Cole Rights Struggle and the Birth of American April through June “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Landscape Painting Struggle” uses the power of documentary films ExhibitsUSA, a national touring exhibitions Traveling. to encourage public conversations about the program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, has changing meanings of freedom and equality in partnered with nationally recognized June 16 to August 11 America. The four outstanding documentary museums to adapt NEH-supported BOULDER HISTORY MUSEUM, films that are the centerpiece of this project— exhibitions for smaller institutions through Boulder, CO The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, the NEH on the Road initiative. Please contact Freedom Riders and The Loving Story—tell the the Mid-America Arts Alliance if you would Our Lives, Our Stories: remarkable stories of individuals who like to host any of these exhibitions. America’s Greatest Generation challenged the social and legal status quo, from Additional NEH on the Road exhibits are listed Traveling. slavery to segregation. Film screenings funded under the Ongoing Exhibitions Section. by NEH will be offered at 473 communities www.nehontheroad.org. June 16 to August 11 across the nation. “Created Equal” is part of WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY the NEH Bridging Cultures initiative, produced in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman April 6 to May 25 HISTORICAL MUSEUM, Wichita, KS Institute of American History. ROLLING HILLS CONSOLIDATED House and Home www.createdequal.neh.gov LIBRARY, St. Joseph, MO Traveling. Wild Land: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Landscape Painting Traveling. Based on a site interpretation by the Greene County Historical Society. 3 Muslim Voices MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL, Spring Portland, ME Reading and discussion programs organized ONGOING EXHIBITIONS by the New York Council for the Humanities. Thoughtful Giving: www.nyhumanities.org. Contact Erika AND WEBSITES Philanthropy as Halstead [email protected] Civic Engagement Website. www.civicreflection.org National Dialogues on Immigration EAST BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY, Public programs organized by the INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN Baltimore, MD International Coalition of Historic Site Garment Loft Museums of Conscience. STUDIES, Washington, CT Long-term. www.thebmi.org www.sitesofconscience.org Interpreting the Native American Landscape: April 2 to April 30 BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY, The Long House Room OWER AST IDE ENEMENT Baltimore, MD L E S T Long-term. www.iaismuseum.org MUSEUM, New York, NY The Kids’ Cannery Long-term. www.thebmi.org LAFAYETTE SQUARE, YouStories: Classics, Washington, DC WALTERS ART MUSEUM, Conversation, Connection The Half Had Not Been Baltimore, MD Reading and discussion programs organized Told Me: African Americans by Aquila Theatre Company, Inc.