Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger
Dec. 5, 2024, 3:30-5pm, followed by a reception
Location
Center for Art Design and Visual Culture : 105
Date & Time
December 5, 2024, 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Description
Please join us on December 5, 2024, from 3:30 to 5 pm at UMBC as we celebrate the life and legacy of Maurice Berger (1956–2020), who was research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC), until his death in 2020.
Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger launches the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, in support of the exploration of, and research into, histories of race, representation and justice in visual culture, with the goal of creating accessible public programming. The event also celebrates the publication of “RACE STORIES: Essays on the Power of Images,” a collection of Berger’s award-winning essays co-published by Aperture and The New York Times, featuring speakers such as Aruna D’Souza, Marvin Heiferman, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Lowery Stokes Sims, Maleke Glee, Timothy Nohe, and others.
A reception will follow the program.
This program is free, but registration is required at https://forms.gle/TLu5p5kuoTZJuVM19.
To contribute to the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, please visit https://shorturl.at/tYjBU.
For more information about RACE STORIES, please visit https://aperture.org/.../race-stories-essays-on-the.../
For more information about the program, please visit https://cadvc.umbc.edu/celebrating-maurice-berger/
For directions to CADVC please visit https://umbc.edu/venue/center-for-art-design-and-visual-culture-cadvc/
If you need specific accommodations for this event or to experience the gallery exhibition, please contact us at 410-455-3188 or cadvc@umbc.edu and specify the nature of your request as soon as possible.
Header: Levester Williams, "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore" (2021-2024) 4K color video/video installation still. Photo courtesy of the artist. (Coming from behind, a hand with dark brown skin tone reaches around to the front of a marble column in a park-like setting. In the background a bland white marble border runs between a parallel strip of grass and a reflecting pool.) Body: Photo courtesy Steve Miller (Maurice Berger, at the opening of "Revolution of the Eye," stands looking forward and smiling in front of a wall-spanning black and white CBS logo.)
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