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| September 26, 2019, City Council Regular Meeting | |
| Title 2. An Appearance by SCAD Representatives to Announce the "Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom" Exhibit | |
| Strategic Priority Good Government | |
| Description On October 3, 2019 SCAD will open the Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom group exhibition at SCAD MOA. The exhibition is centered on the Frederick Douglass Family Archive from the Walter O. Evans Collection. This historic register of the Douglass family’s manuscripts, letters, newspaper clippings and photographs are displayed in dialogue with artworks by contemporary artists whose work reflects the aesthetic and political values espoused by this revolutionary leader. For Douglass (1818-1895), an individual who was born into slavery and went on to become one of the most world-renowned social justice campaigners, the right to the imagination was the right to life. In his work as an orator, author and fierce intellectual, the abolitionist believed that not only words, but works of art, were tools in the path for freedom. As a prolific creator and collector of autobiographies, essays, diaries, poems, photographs, paintings, drawings and sculptures – many of which now reside in the Walter O. Evans Collection and are included in this exhibition – Douglass ultimately believed in art as a means to individual and collective liberation. Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom is a dynamic exhibition that addresses critical subjects that shaped the life’s work of Douglass and continue to be at the forefront of today’s sociopolitical discourse. This project makes visible the historic narrative of the Douglasses and their unwavering commitment to transatlantic abolitionism and radical reform, not only for African Americans but for society as a whole. Additionally, this exhibition offers an expanded definition of Douglass, as it considers him not only as a key figure for civil rights but also an advocate for women’s suffrage, one of the first proponents of photographic theory and, perhaps most distinctively, as a family man. In addition to the Embers of Freedom, October 3rd programming will also celebrate the openings of Raphael Barontini’s The Golden March, Isaac Julien’s Frederick Douglass: Lessons of the Hour, and Christina Forrer’s Feet of the Devil exhibitions. Both Barontini and Julien’s exhibitions are also in dialogue with Embers of Freedom. For more information visit www.scadmoa.org October 3rd Opening Events at SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Free and open to the public 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. -Performance: Raphael Barontini: Savannah High School Marching Band 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. - Reception | |
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| Contact Sharonte Turner, Office of the Mayor | |
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