VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection, the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Southwest Alternate Media Project present The Whole World Was Watching Film and Television Series July 12, 14, 19, & 21, 2011 in the Freed Auditorium at the Glassell School, 5101 Montrose Blvd. Curated by Gerald O'Grady and presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil at the Menil Collection and the African American Library at the Gregory School.

Television brought the civil rights movement into the livingrooms of everyday Americans in the 1960's, exposing them to injustices against African Americans in the segregated South. “The Whole World Was Watching” will showcase films that documented their struggle for equality and were instrumental in raising public awareness.

Lecture with curator Gerald O'Grady
A Sermon on the Text: "Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world"
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Tuesday, July 12, 7 p.m.

In honor of Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil.

Gerald O’Grady (pictured) was the Founder and Director of the Media Center in Houston, first at University of St. Thomas, now at Rice University, and of the Center for Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Later he was a Fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, where he collected the films of the American civil rights movement.

He is currently Visiting Professor in the School of Art, Design, and Media; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.