DC -- Anacostia Community Museum -- Exhibit: Your Community, Your Story: Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 1967-2017:
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Description of Pictures: Your Community, Your Story: Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 1967-2017
September 15, 2017 – January 6, 2019
For fifty years, the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM) has pushed the boundaries of what “museum” means. Conversations with neighbors have shaped exhibitions and programs. Collections preserve the stories of everyday people.
Today, with a focus on contemporary urban themes, ACM continues to investigate shared experiences, mutual interests, and agreed-upon goals. Museum activities reach deep into local networks to identify key issues, seek out new ideas, gather diverse voices, and promote conversations that generate social impact.
Your Community, Your Story highlights some of the museum’s signature projects and demonstrates how ACM’s work helps us understand city life and strengthen community bonds.
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SIACM5_181121_04.JPG: A New Kind of Museum
SIACM5_181121_09.JPG: Preserving Memory
SIACM5_181121_12.JPG: One of the pens used by the President, August 6, 1965, in signing S. 15634, An Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (Was used to sign Voting Rights Act of 1965.)
SIACM5_181121_17.JPG: BK Adams
Walking People
SIACM5_181121_25.JPG: Your Community, Your Story
Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 1967-2017
SIACM5_181121_29.JPG: Tell Us Your Story
SIACM5_181121_39.JPG: Moving into the Future
SIACM5_181121_41.JPG: Lived Experiences
SIACM5_181121_44.JPG: Pioneering Mission
SIACM5_181121_46.JPG: Neighborhood Life
SIACM5_181121_52.JPG: Rats!
SIACM5_181121_56.JPG: Convening Conversations
SIACM5_181121_64.JPG: Fostering Creativity
SIACM5_181121_67.JPG: Fostering Creativity
SIACM5_181121_68.JPG: John N. Robinson
Outdoor Art Fair, 1946
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2018 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Greenville, NC, Newport News, VA, and my farewell event with them in Chicago, IL (via sites in Louisville, KY, St. Louis, MO, and Toledo, OH),
three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and
my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles).
Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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