Are you in Pittsburgh? Wanna be on TV?
Posted on | June 14, 2010 | No Comments
Live Studio Audience Invited for the Taping of Humanities on the Road
Featuring Eminent African American Scholar Discussing the
Work of Charles “Teenie” Harris
2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, June 26, Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
Pittsburgh, PA…On Saturday, June 26, Carnegie Museum of Art will host a taping before a live audience for an episode of Humanities on the Road, the new television initiative presented by Pennsylvania Humanities Council and broadcast on Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN). The program is free and open to the public; while no reservations are needed, space is limited to 180 people, so potential audience members should arrive early. A question-and-answer segment will follow the talk. Portions of the Q&A will be included in the broadcast of the program to 3.3 million households in the fall. This Humanities on the Road episode features University of Pittsburgh professor Dr. Laurence Glasco presenting the work of Charles “Teenie” Harris, a photographer who chronicled the events and daily lives of African Americans for one of the nation’s most influential Black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier. Dr. Glasco’s talk, entitled Teenie Harris and Black Pittsburgh, 1940–1970: An American Story, will focus on the variety of positive images portrayed in Harris’s photos of the 1940s and 1950s, which capture the subjects’ patriotism, optimism, stylishness, and sense of self worth. Dr. Glasco will contrast these with other Harris images of protest and demonstration that dominated the 1960s.
Dr. Glasco is Associate Professor of History and director of the program for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in World Perspective at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a frequent collaborator with the Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive at Carnegie Museum of Art. An author of several books on the history of African Americans in Western Pennsylvania, Glasco is currently working and on a volume called August Wilson’s Pittsburgh. He is also collaborating with the museum on a book that will complement an upcoming retrospective about Teenie Harris, which opens in October 2011.
Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive
Since 2001, Carnegie Museum of Art has been the home to the Harris archive of nearly 80,000 photographic negatives, few of which are titled and dated. The archive, a richly detailed record of public personalities and events, and of the daily lives of average people, is considered one of the most important documentations of 20th-century African American life. Since 2003, the museum has scanned and cataloged nearly 60,000 images, many of which are available on the online collection database, www.cmoa.org/teenie. Through outreach efforts, lectures and special events, and three Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive Project exhibitions (in 2003, 2006, and 2009), the museum has asked for assistance in identifying the people, places, and events in the images. So far, 2,000 images have been positively identified with help from the community. As caretaker of the archive, the museum is committed to providing access to these images as an invaluable historical and educational resource.
Humanities on the Road
A new television series that showcases humanities presentations at select sites across Pennsylvania, Humanities on the Road features interactive presentations on topics ranging from Nancy Drew to African American folk traditions to John Updike to Pennsylvania German culture. Filmed in front of a live audience at different venues, each episode shines a spotlight on some of the state’s most intriguing cultural landmarks and communities. Humanities on the Road is broadcast on PCN, Pennsylvania’s version of C-SPAN. PCN provides live unedited coverage of state government and original programming. For more information, visitwww.pcntv.com
Carnegie Museum of Art
Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895. One of the four Carnegie Museums ofPittsburgh, it is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the 16th century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to enhancing understanding of the physical environment through its exhibitions, collections, and public programs. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit our Web site at www.cmoa.org.
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