Traveling Exhibits

The following exhibits - on view at other museums - were originated at the California African American Museum. Please note that opening and closing dates are subject to change and should be confirmed with the exhibiting museums. Links to the websites of the exhibiting museums have also been provided.

• "I SHOT RAY CHARLES – Howard Morehead, Photographer" Through this exhibition, CAAM reveals the initial photographic selections from the recently donated collection of the distinguished photographer Howard Morehead who died July 2003. For more than 45 years Morehead, one of the few African American photographers who worked steadily in the entertainment industry, used his camera to create dramatic images, establish faces, distill time and capture icons in action...more
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• Stax Museum of American Soul Music - Memphis, Tennessee
• June 6, 2008 - December 31, 2008
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• "In The Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey" This exhibition, the second offering from our series, In the Hands of African American Collectors, offers a roadmap to the cultural journey and transformation faced by these collectors as they embrace and acquire art and artifacts. Within the context of their own history and the past that speaks to them, we discover how the Kinseys are changed and nurtured by what they chose to collect. From painful to see slave owner’s documents to brilliant, fiery expressions in sculpture to private glimpses into thoughts of the ancestors, the Kinsey Collection reflects our own rich cultural heritage which they have been driven to capture, inspire and sustain for future generations...more
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• Norton Museum of Art - West Palm Beach, Florida
• April 19, 2008 - July 20, 2008
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• "Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide: Portraits of Survival and Hope” Photographs by Jerry Berndt" The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels presents the photographic exhibit “Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide: Portraits of Survival and Hope.” The powerful photographs taken by Jerry Berndt explore the pain of the genocide contrasted with hopeful images of the orphans of Rwanda rebuilding their lives through marriages, birth, and healing. The exhibit will run from early July to early October.
  
  Presented by the Office of Justice and Peace and its Commission of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The exhibition was organized by the California African American Museum and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles....more
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• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - 555 W. Temple Street, LA 90012 (Chapels 4,5,6 and 8)
• July - October 2008