January to March 2015 Calendar
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+ January to March 2015 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PROGRAMS EXHIBITION OPENINGS JANUARY January 7 to February 20 Marie Roberts, A Congress of Curious Peoples, EAST MEADOW PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2005, acrylic on unstretched canvas, Collection of Liz and Marc Hartzman, from East Meadow, NY the exhibition Coney Island: Visions of an Dust, Drought, and Dreams American Dreamland, 1861–2008, at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Courtesy, the Gone Dry Wadsworth Atheneum. Traveling. Organized by the American Library www.thewadsworth.org Association. www.ala.org January 7 to February 20 KINSLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, Kinsley, KS Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry Traveling. January 7 to February 20 LOS ALAMOS COUNTY LIBRARY January 13 to January 14 January 21 to March 6 SYSTEM, Los Alamos, NM STRATFORD HALL, Stratford, VA FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE, Dust, Drought, and Dreams An American Turning Point: Jacksonville, FL Gone Dry Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. Organized by the Virginia Traveling. the Civil War Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Traveling. January 7 to February 20 Commission. www.virginiacivilwar.org DOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY, January 21 to March 6 January 21 to March 6 Dover, DE OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BENJAMIN HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL Changing America Toledo, OH SITE, Indianapolis, IN Traveling. Organized by the American Library Lincoln: The Constitution and Association, in collaboration with the Lincoln: The Constitution and Smithsonian’s National Museum of African the Civil War the Civil War Traveling. American History and Culture and National Traveling. Organized by the National Museum of American History. www.ala.org Constitution Center. www.ala.org January 21 to March 6 ALISBURY NIVERSITY DWARD January 7 to February 20 January 21 to March 6 S U , E TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE CALCASIEU PARISH PUBLIC NABB RESEARCH CENTER, DISTRICT, Fort Worth, TX LIBRARY, Lake Charles, LA Salisbury, MD Changing America Lincoln: The Constitution and Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. the Civil War the Civil War Traveling. Traveling. January 12 to February 2 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, January 21 to March 6 January 21 to March 6 Pueblo, CO CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, SAN DIEGO LAW LIBRARY, Civil War 150: Exploring the War St. Paul, MN San Diego, CA and its Meaning Through the Lincoln: The Constitution and Lincoln: The Constitution and Words of Those Who Lived It the Civil War the Civil War Traveling. Organized by the Library of Traveling. Traveling. America. www.gilderlehrman.org/civilwar150 March 4 to April 17 SMYRNA PUBLIC LIBRARY, Archibald J. Motley Jr., The Picnic, 1936. Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches Smyrna, GA (76.2 x 91.4 cm) from the exhibition Dust, Drought, and Dreams Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist at the Chicago Cultural Center. Gone Dry Collection of the Howard University Traveling. Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. © Valerie Gerrard Browne. Courtesy, March 4 to April 17 Nasher Museum of Art, Duke URBANA UNIVERSITY, University. SWEDENBORG MEMORIA LIBRARY, nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/motley Urbana, OH Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry Traveling. March 4 to April 17 HISTORY COLORADO, Pueblo, CO January 21 to March 13 FEBRUARY Changing America ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE, LAVERY Traveling. February 2 to March 21 LIBRARY, Rochester, NY HAMPTON UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, March 4 to April 17 Lincoln: The Constitution and Hampton, VA PEASE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Pease, NH the Civil War To Be Sold: Virginia and the Changing America Traveling. Traveling. American Slave Trade January 21 to March 6 Traveling. Organized by the Library of March 6 to August 31 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, Virginia Foundation. www.lva.virginia.gov CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER, Missoula, MT February 7 to May 10 Chicago, IL Lincoln: The Constitution and HISTORY COLORADO, Denver, CO Archibald Motley: the Civil War The 1968 Project Jazz Age Modernist Traveling. Traveling. Organized by the Minnesota Traveling. Organized by Duke University. Historical Society. www.the1968exhibit.org nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/motley January 22 to August 31 KEAN UNIVERSITY, HUMAN RIGHTS February 9 to March 2 March 6 to March 7 INSTITUTE GALLERY, Union, NJ SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VILLAGE SQUARE SHOPPING The World Knew: Jan Karski’s San Diego, CA CENTER, Scottsville, VA Mission for Humanity Civil War 150: Exploring the War An American Turning Point: Traveling. Organized by the Jan Karski and its Meaning Through the Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Educational Foundation. Words of Those Who Lived It Traveling. www.jankarski.net/en Traveling. March 9 to March 30 January 30 to January 31 February 14 to September 27 NEW MEXICO JUNIOR COLLEGE, ORT ONROE F M , Fort Monroe, VA HEARD MUSEUM, Phoenix, AZ An American Turning Point: PANNELL LIBRARY, Hobbs, NM Time Exposures: Picturing a Civil War 150: Exploring the War Civil War 150 HistoryMobile History of Isleta Pueblo in the Traveling. and its Meaning Through the 19th Century Words of Those Who Lived It January 31 to May 31 Traveling. Organized by the Pueblo of Isleta. Traveling. WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM www.isletapueblo.com March 13 to March 15 OF ART, Hartford, CT SUFFOLK VISITORS CENTER, Coney Island: Visions of an MARCH March 4 to April 17 Suffolk, VA American Dreamland, 1861–2008 ARFIELD OUNTY IBRARIES Traveling. Organized by the Wadsworth G C L , An American Turning Point: Atheneum. www.thewadsworth.org RIFLE BRANCH LIBRARY, Rifle, CO Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Dust, Drought, and Dreams Traveling. Gone Dry Traveling. 2 March 14 to September 13 March 18 to May 1 January 28 to March 16 MUSEUM OF THE CONFEDERACY, TERREBONNE PARISH LIBRARY, CROSS TIMBERS FINE ARTS Appomattox, VA Houma, LA COUNCIL, Stephenville, TX An American Turning Point: The Lincoln: The Constitution and Our Lives, Our Stories: Civil War in Virginia: Surviving the Civil War America’s Greatest Generation Traveling. War and Waging War Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Traveling. by the Minnesota Historical Society. March 23 to May 2 March 18 to May 1 RUSSELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, January 28 to March 16 ANDERSON UNIVERSITY, Lebanon, VA MERCER MUSEUM, Anderson, IL To Be Sold: Virginia and the Doylestown, PA Lincoln: The Constitution and American Slave Trade House and Home Traveling. Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized the Civil War by the National Building Museum. Traveling. March 27 to September 7 January 28 to March 16 March 18 to May 1 ANCHORAGE MUSEUM, PANOLA COLLEGE, Carthage, TX BARNES COUNTY HISTORICAL Anchorage, AK Spirited: Prohibition in America OCIETY S , Valley City, ND Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Lincoln: The Constitution and and the Northwest Passage by the National Constitution Center. the Civil War Traveling. Organized by the Anchorage Traveling. Museum Association. January 28 to March 16 www.anchoragemuseum.org BELL COUNTY MUSEUM, Belton, TX March 18 to May 1 March 27 to March 29 For All The World To See: COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE PUTNAM COUNTY CIVIL WAR Visual Culture and the Struggle ISLAND, Warwick, RI DAYS, Hurricane, WV for Civil Rights Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized An American Turning Point: the Civil War by the University of Maryland, Baltimore Traveling. Civil War 150 HistoryMobile County. Traveling. March 18 to May 1 January 28 to March 16 JOHN E. CONNER MUSEUM, FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton, FL Kingsville, TX Lincoln: The Constitution and NEH ON THE ROAD The Bison: American Icon Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized the Civil War by the Trigg C. M. Russell Foundation. Traveling. ExhibitsUSA, a national touring exhibitions March 18 to May 1 program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, has ILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY partnered with nationally recognized museums to adapt NEH-supported OLLEGE C , Oglesby, IL exhibitions for smaller institutions through PROGRAMS AND Lincoln: The Constitution and the NEH on the Road initiative. Please contact the Mid-America Arts Alliance if you would EVENTS the Civil War Traveling. like to host any of these exhibitions. Additional NEH on the Road exhibits are listed March 18 to May 1 under the Ongoing Exhibitions Section. www.nehontheroad.org. Created Equal: America’s Civil MUSEUM OF SAN RAMON VALLEY, Rights Struggle Danville, CA January 28 to March 16 Winter Lincoln: The Constitution and PROVO CITY LIBRARY AT ACADEMY “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle” uses the power of documentary films the Civil War SQUARE, Provo, UT to encourage public conversations about the Traveling. Wild Land: Thomas Cole and the changing meanings of freedom and equality in March 18 to May 1 Birth of American Landscape America. The four outstanding documentary films that are the centerpiece of this project— STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Painting Traveling. Based on a site interpretation by the The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, Fredonia, NY Greene County Historical Society. Freedom Riders and The Loving Story—tell the Lincoln: The Constitution and remarkable stories of individuals who challenged the social and legal status quo, from the Civil War slavery to segregation. Film screenings funded Traveling. by NEH will be offered at 473 communities across the nation. “Created Equal” is part of 3 the NEH Bridging Cultures initiative, produced February 17 and 24 (check local listings) MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman The Italian Americans Portland, ME Institute of American History. Executive producers, Jeff Bieber and Dalton www.createdequal.neh.gov Delan. Written and produced by John Maggio. Maine Memory Network Co-producers, Muriel Soenens and Julia Website. www.mainememory.net YouStories: Classics, Marchesi. www.weta.org Conversation, Connection MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL, Public programs organized by Aquila Theatre Portland, ME MARCH Company, Inc. aquilatheatre.com Local and Legendary: Maine in March 24 (check local listings) February 7 1913: Seeds of Conflict the Civil War HAGEN RANCH ROAD BRANCH Ben Loeterman, writer and director; Laura Website. civilwar.mainememory.net Longsworth, producer; Itay Ken-Tor, LIBRARY, Delray Beach, FL international co-producer.