Dresser Trunk Project

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Eleven prominent artists, architects and landscape architects explore places of refuge for black travelers during segregation. These explorations take the form of “dresser trunks” resulting in a traveling exhibition. The exhibition documents popular venues during segregation including hotels, nightclubs, and even a negro league ball park.  The exhibit opened at the Extension Gallery for Architecture in Chicago on September 14th, 2007. The show then traveled to the Elmaleh Gallery, and the Bayly Art Museum at UVA, the University of Pennsylvania, and Howard University in the Fall of 2008. The exhibit was the subject of a conference at Columbia University. The Show will open at the University of Maryland in the Spring of 2009, and will then travel to New Orleans. More information can be found in the DTP Catalog.

 
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