April to June 2015 Calendar
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April to June 2015 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PROGRAMS EXHIBITION OPENINGS APRIL April 1 to June 30 Fray Andrés Garcia (also known as Provincial , , , ST. LOUIS CENTRAL LIBRARY, Academic II) Saint Joseph Southern New Mexico early- to mid-19th century, water‐based pigments St. Louis, MO on cloth and wood. Gift of Fred Harvey Collection, Poetic Voices of the Muslim Museum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection (FA.1979.64.51). From the exhibition The Red that World Exhibition Colored the World at the Museum of International Traveling. Organized by City Lore, Inc. Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Organized by the www.pvmw.org International Folk Art Foundation. Courtesy, International Folk Art Foundation. April 2 to April 3 www.internationalfolkart.org PAMPLIN HISTORICAL PARK AND THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIER, Petersburg, VA An American Turning Point: Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Traveling. Organized by the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission. www.virginiacivilwar.org April 4 STATE CAPITOL, Richmond, VA An American Turning Point: Civil War 150 HistoryMobile April 12 to September 7 April 24 to April 26 Traveling. MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH CAROLINE COUNTY VISITORS April 5 to April 6 HERITAGE: THE MUSEUM OF CENTER, Ruther Glen, VA SAILOR’S CREEK BATTLEFIELD DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE, An American Turning Point: STATE PARK, Rice, VA Beachwood, OH Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Traveling. An American Turning Point: Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Becoming American April 26 Traveling. Organized by the National Museum Traveling. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, of American Jewish History. www.nmajh.org April 8 to April 12 Baltimore, MD April 21 to April 22 APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE African Art Collection BENNETT PLACE HISTORIC SITE, Reinstallation. www.artbma.org NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, Durham, NC Appomattox, VA April 29 to June 26 An American Turning Point: An American Turning Point: ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY Civil War 150 HistoryMobile IBRARY Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Traveling. L , Athens, GA Traveling. Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry Traveling. Organized by the American Library Association. www.ala.org April 29 to June 26 May 13 to June 26 May 16 to November 1 WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CORTLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, LIBRARY, Canyon, TX SOCIETY, Cortland, NY Bronx, NY Dust, Drought, and Dreams Lincoln: The Constitution and Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life Gone Dry the Civil War Traveling. www.nybg.org Traveling. Traveling. May 17 to September 13 April 29 to June 12 May 13 to June 26 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DUPAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL ART, Santa Fe, NM SLAVERY AND JUSTICE, SOCIETY, Wheaton, IL The Red that Colored the World Providence, RI Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. Organized by the International Folk Art Foundation. www.internationalfolkart.org Changing America the Civil War Traveling. Traveling. Organized by the American Library May 22 to May 24 Association, in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African May 13 to June 26 PUNGO STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL, American History and Culture and National EDISON PUBLIC LIBRARY, PRINCESS ANNE ROAD, Museum of American History. www.ala.org Virginia Beach, VA Edison, NJ April 29 to June 12 Lincoln: The Constitution and An American Turning Point: STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF the Civil War Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Traveling. NORTH DAKOTA, Bismarck, ND Traveling. Changing America May 13 to June 26 May 30 to January 3 Traveling. OUNTAINDALE UBLIC IBRARY OAKLAND MUSEUM OF F P L April 29 to May 2 DISTRICT, Bolingbrook, IL CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA BATH COUNTY RECREATION Lincoln: The Constitution and Pacific Worlds Traveling. Organized by the Oakland Museum ENTER the Civil War C , Hot Springs, VA of California Foundation. www.museumca.org Traveling. An American Turning Point: June 6 to September 7 Civil War 150 HistoryMobile May 13 to June 26 Traveling. PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM, KNIGHT MUSEUM & SANDHILLS Salem, MA May 4 to July 25 CENTER, Alliance, NE American Epics: Thomas Hart DANVILLE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Lincoln: The Constitution and Benton and Hollywood AND ISTORY the Civil War H , Danville, VA Traveling. www.pem.org Traveling. To Be Sold: Virginia and the June 9 to June 13 American Slave Trade May 13 to June 26 Traveling. Organized by the Library of FAIRGROUNDS, Alliance, NE MENDOCINO COUNTY MUSEUM, Virginia Foundation. www.lva.virginia.gov Nebraska Chautauqua: Free Willits, CA May 9 to May 10 Lincoln: The Constitution and Land? 1862 and the Shaping of FORT CLIFTON PARK, the Civil War Modern America Traveling. Organized by the Nebraska Traveling. Colonial Heights, VA Humanities Council. An American Turning Point: www.nebraskahumanities.org May 13 to June 26 Civil War 150 HistoryMobile NEWPORT NEWS PUBLIC LIBRARY Traveling. June 12 to September 13 SYSTEM, Newport News, VA BOWERS MUSEUM, Santa Ana, CA May 13 to June 26 Lincoln: The Constitution and The 1968 Project AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY the Civil War Traveling. Organized by the Minnesota PUBLIC LIBRARY, Augusta, GA Traveling. Historical Society. www.the1968exhibit.org Lincoln: The Constitution and May 14 to May 17 June 13 the Civil War CHESAPEAKE CITY PARK, SMITHFIELD PLANTATION, Traveling. Chesapeake, VA Blacksburg, VA An American Turning Point: An American Turning Point: Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Traveling. Traveling. June 17 to June 21 April 6 to May 25 June 16 to August 11 FAIRGROUNDS, Kearney, NE BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL LIVING HISTORY FARMS, Nebraska Chautauqua: Free SOCIETY, Hiawatha, KS Urbandale, IA Land? 1862 and the Shaping of Wild Land: Thomas Cole House and Home Modern America and the Birth of American Traveling. Traveling. Landscape Painting June 16 to August 11 Traveling. Based on a site interpretation by the June 20 ILLIAM AMAN UBLIC Greene County Historical Society. W F. L P MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM, LIBRARY, North Little Rock, AR Mystic, CT April 6 to May 25 Spirited: Prohibition in America Voyaging in the Wake of the SILENT WINGS MUSEUM, Traveling. Lubbock, TX Whalers: The 38th Voyage of the June 16 to August 11 Our Lives, Our Stories: Charles W. Morgan LOVE’S JAZZ & ART CENTER, Long-term. www.mysticseaport.org America’s Greatest Generation Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Omaha, NE June 20 by the Minnesota Historical Society. For All The World To See: THE PEARISBURG PARK, Visual Culture and the Struggle April 6 to May 25 Pearisburg Park, VA for Civil Rights BRANIGAN CULTURAL CENTER, An American Turning Point: Traveling. Las Cruces, NM Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Traveling. House and Home Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized June 24 to August 7 by the National Building Museum. PROGRAMS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF April 6 to May 25 IOWA, Cedar Rapids, IA WYANDOTTE COUNTY HISTORICAL EVENTS Changing America MUSEUM, Bonner Springs, KS Traveling. Spirited: Prohibition in America June 24 to August 7 Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Created Equal: America’s Civil KEENE PUBLIC LIBRARY, by the National Constitution Center. Rights Struggle Spring Keene, NH April 6 to May 25 “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Changing America STEARNS HISTORY MUSEUM, Struggle” uses the power of documentary films Traveling. St. Cloud, MN to encourage public conversations about the changing meanings of freedom and equality in For All The World To See: America. The four outstanding documentary Visual Culture and the Struggle films that are the centerpiece of this project— The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, for Civil Rights NEH ON THE ROAD Freedom Riders, and The Loving Story—tell the Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized by the University of Maryland, Baltimore remarkable stories of individuals who County. challenged the social and legal status quo, from slavery to segregation. Film screenings funded ExhibitsUSA, a national touring exhibitions by NEH will be offered at 473 communities June 16 to August 11 program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, has across the nation. “Created Equal” is part of partnered with nationally recognized PARTHENON, Nashville, TN the NEH Bridging Cultures initiative, produced museums to adapt NEH-supported Wild Land: Thomas Cole in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman exhibitions for smaller institutions through and the Birth of American Institute of American History. the NEH on the Road initiative. Please contact www.createdequal.neh.gov the Mid-America Arts Alliance if you would Landscape Painting like to host any of these exhibitions Traveling. Additional NEH on the Road exhibits are listed Music Unwound Lecture programs organized by the Pacific under the Ongoing Exhibitions Section. June 16 to August 11 www.nehontheroad.org. Symphony. CHIPPEWA VALLEY MUSEUM, Eau Claire, WI April 9 to April 10 Our Lives, Our Stories: BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC, America’s Greatest Generation Buffalo, NY Traveling. 3 Muslim Voices ONGOING NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM, Reading and discussion programs organized Washington, DC by the New York Council for the Humanities. Afropop Worldwide www.nyhumanities.org Hosted by Georges Collinet and produced by House and Home Sean Barlow for World Music Productions. Long-term. www.nbm.org April 6 www.afropop.org/wp/hipdeep NORMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY WEST, SOLDIERS’ HOME, Washington, DC American Routes Norman, OK President Lincoln’s Cottage at Produced and hosted by Nick Spitzer. Distributed by PRX–Public Radio Exchange. the Soldiers’ Home April 8 to April 28 americanroutes.wwno.org Long-term. Organized by