Museum to Display Collection of Smithsonian Photographs
On February 4 the Castle Museum will open two exhibits featuring African American portraits. Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits is from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and features 69 photographs of famous African Americans.
The second display focuses on local African Americans who have made a difference. Making an Impact: Portraits of Saginaw’s African American Community will include fascinating video interviews to accompany the photos and text panels.
Let Your Motto Be Resistance is an intriguing display that highlights individuals whose passion, determination and talent played an influential role in shaping notions of race and status over the past 150 years. It will be at the Castle Museum through April 29, 2012.
The portrait subjects come from many sectors of the African American community, from Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Edmonia Lewis, to W.E.B. Du Bois, Lorraine Hansberry, and Wynton Marsalis. Among the featured photographers who employ a variety of strategies to create their powerful images are Mathew Brady, Berenice Abbott, James VanDerZee, Doris Ulmann, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, and Carl Van Vechten.
Members Only Reception
All Historical Society members are invited to a reception in honor of our new exhibits:
Let Your Motto Be Resistance and Making an Impact: Portraits of Saginaw’s African American Community.
WHEN: Thursday, February 23
TIME: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Light appetizers will be served.
For more information, call Ruth Mancina at 752-2861, Ext. 315
Lunch and Learn
Featuring Sheilda Braddock of First Ward Community Center
A Look at its History with a Focus on the 1960s
WHEN: Tuesday, February 14
TIME: Noon
Free with Museum admission. Dessert and coffee provided
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Museum Receives Grants for Smithsonian Exhibit
The Castle Museum has received two grants to assist in additional programming for its upcoming exhibit, Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
The first grant is from the Smithsonian Community Grant Program, sponsored by MetLife Foundation, and will be used to develop and implement public programming related to Let Your Motto Be Resistance. The grant will be used to pay for videotaping and production and advertising and marketing of a companion exhibit developed by the Castle Museum called Making an Impact: Portraits of Saginaw’s African American Community.
The Smithsonian Community Grant program, funded by MetLife Foundation and administered by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), is used to strengthen the connections between museums nationwide and their
communities. The grants allow exhibitors to enhance current program offerings or to create a new program suited to the topic of the SITES exhibition that they are hosting.
The second grant the Museum received was from the Saginaw Community Foundation and its Senior Citizen Enrichment Fund. Monies from this grant will be used to develop and implement public programming related to Let Your Motto Be Resistance. Grant monies also will be used to help pay for the cost of the exhibit.
 
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