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Rostros Del Activismo
Además de proveer perspectivas de primera mano y documentar el activismo mientras ocurre, los fotógrafos tienen la tarea de capturar el dolor de la tiranía a través de los ojos de quienes la sufren. Al capturar momentos clave, los artistas se unen a quienes participan en el campo como mensajeros para el mundo exterior, al decir: “¡Esta también es tu lucha!” Al resaltar a individuos afectados por gobiernos opresores y prejuicios, los fotógrafos hacen hincapié en el dolor que esas injusticias infligen en el mundo, no sólo en quienes aparecen en las imágenes. Aunque es una la persona que está tras la cámara atestiguando ese suceso, existe el potencial de que muchos se informen y se vean influidos una vez que la fotografía tenga una circulación amplia.
Artist Unknown
Bobby Rush, left, in fur hat, Illinois Chairman of Black Panthers…
January 6, 1970
“Las imágenes no le piden que ayude a esas personas, sino algo mucho más complicado: que por un instante sea intensamente consciente de su existencia, una existencia tan real e importante como la suya.”
Artist Unknown
Sympathy for Wounded Knee: a group of young Native Americans participate in a drum circle…
March 1973
Artist
Danny Lyon
Title
Demonstrations at an "all-white" swimming pool in Cairo, Illinois
Date
1962
Collection of Thomas J, Wilson and Jill M. Garling
Artist
Ivan Massar
Title
Man leaning on fence with pipe at the Civil Rights March on Washington
Date
1963
Collection of Thomas J, Wilson and Jill M. Garling
Artist
Leonard Freed
Title
Demonstrators with pamphlets at Gay Liberation March, New York City
Date
1970
Collection of Thomas J, Wilson and Jill M. Garling
Artist
Anonymous/ International News Photo
Title
Singing "freedom songs" under police guard, hundreds of schoolchildren march down the middle of the street toward a detention compund after their mass arrest in front of the Dallas County courthouse, Selma, Alabama
Date
February 3, 1965
Extended Read
Beginning in March of 1965, between 2,000 and 3,000 marchers began their 54-mile hike from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to fight for the right for the Black vote in America. After crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, marchers were met by Alabama state troopers who blocked their path, beat protestors with whips and batons, and sprayed them with tear gas.
Collection of Thomas J, Wilson and Jill M. Garling
Artist
Anonymous
Title
The Selma to Montgomery Marches: marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday," Selma
Date
March 22, 1965
Collection of Thomas J, Wilson and Jill M. Garling
Gordon Coster
Studies in Expressions during Mass Funeral Services of Steel Workers Slain…
1937
Collector’s Statement
Seeing is believing, in the benefits of civic protest. We have assembled this photography collection because believing leads to the actions necessary for the American dream of freedom and prosperity to be a reality. Langston Hughes inspires us with “Let America Be America Again” and DePaul’s talented team curated iconic images of valiant individuals Demanding Change to make this dream true for every American. Our goal is that this combination motivates people to seek their path to creating a better world.
To learn more about the Wilson Garling Collection please visit www.thewilson-garlingcollection.org.
Project Statement & Contributors
When Chicago collectors, Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, approached DePaul Art Museum for an exhibition of their social justice photography collection, museum staff understood this as an opportunity to share the museum’s curatorial voice, recognizing the similarities in mission between this important local private collection and the museum itself. Calling upon the next generation of social justice-minded museum professionals, Demanding Change, Bearing Witness is the first exhibition for DePaul Art Museum to be curated by students from DePaul University. The virtual exhibition reflects an academic-year-long collaboration, through a three-course series taught in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Students from the Museum Studies program and across the college worked alongside faculty members, art museum staff, and the private collection manager to explore the RiseUP! collection and to shed light on the contribution of photography to social activism in the United States. Students chose the main themes and goals of the exhibition set to the backdrop of Langston Hughes’s 1938 poem “Let America Be America Again.” The students deliberately selected artworks from the collection to convey the importance of the individual in social movements, wrote the exhibition labels and descriptions, and have developed public programs that carry this from a virtual exhibition platform to an in-person conversation.
DePaul Art Museum is immensely grateful to the following groups and individuals for their dedication to and support of Demanding Change, Bearing Witness: Photographs from the Wilson Garling RiseUP! Collection:
The Wilson Garling Collection
Thomas J. Wilson, Collector
Jill M. Garling, Collector
Michele Heftman, Curator & Collection Manager
DePaul Art Museum RiseUP! Curatorial Interns & Fellow
Spencer Bolding, Curatorial Intern
Zoey Dalbert, Curatorial Intern
Margo Lipscomb, Curatorial Intern
Hannah Orlando, Arthur D. James Museum Studies Fellow
DePaul University Student Curators
Basil Beyreis-Heim
Spencer Bolding
Nicole Bucio
Margo Lipscomb
Leila Nessar
Jakub Nicpon
Lisa Niemiec
Grace Onofrey
Anya Paluch
Nora Ryan
Devin Thompson
Izzy Wagner
DePaul University Student Collaborators
Adenike Adeniji
Sophia Antoniades
Michelle Calderon
Alexis Cervantes
Natalia Coba
Reginay Courtland
Alexandro Esparza
Gabriela Fernande
Julian Gama
Rori Hill
Anil Joshi
Andres Mendoza
Joseph Moreno
David Ocampo
Lucia Preziosi
Eduardo Ramirez
Isabel Rivera
Bryan Rodriguez
Mateo Salinas
Noah Seals
Citlali Silva
Janai Torres
Erik Velazquez
Kayla Ward
Ja’Nya Wilkes
Arlo Yi
Alhan Fayrouz Zahdan
DePaul University Project Leads
Cheryl Bachand, Director, Museum Studies Program and Senior Professional Lecturer, History of Art & Architecture
Laura-Caroline de Lara, Director, DePaul Art Museum
DePaul Art Museum Staff
David Maruzzella, Collection & Exhibition Manager
Ionit Behar, Associate Curator
DePaul University Faculty & Staff, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Cheryl Bachand, Director, Museum Studies Program and Senior Professional Lecturer, History of Art & Architecture
Bill Johnson González, Professor, English & Director, Center for Latino Research
Margaret Storey, Associate Dean and Professor, History
Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture
Guillermo Vásquez de Velasco, DeanOffice of the Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Exhibition Website Development & Design
VaryerDePaul University John T. Richardson Library Collaborators
Alexis Burson, Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian
Generous financial and in-kind support for this exhibition have been provided by the Vincentian Endowment Fund, Varyer, and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
DEMANDING CHANGE, BEARING WITNESS
Mon–Tue: Closed
Wed–Th: 11 am–7 pm
Fri–Sun: 11 am–5 pm
Free Admission