Road to Freedom Bus Tour

Tuesday, December 8, 10:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (1 session) Course FEE: $65 General; $55 Skirball Members; $25 Full-Time Students Registration for this course begins online, on site, and by phone on Wednesday, August 12, at 12:00 p.m. This fall, explore the Civil Rights Movement in America by touring four new exhibitions opening in Los Angeles. During this daylong program, hear insight from guest tour guides who participated in the movement and from artists whose works reflect their hope for a better future.

Begin at the Skirball, where Skirball associate curator Erin Clancey and civil rights activists Robert and Helen Singleton will lead participants in viewing Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 and Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge. After a catered lunch at the Skirball, travel by motorcoach to the California African American Museum for a tour of the art exhibitions After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy and An Idea Called Tomorrow in which some of today's leading artists explore both the impact of the Civil Rights Movement in our day and their visions for a more civic-minded future.

Facilitators: Skirball associate curator Erin Clancey is managing curator of the Skirball's presentation of Road to Freedom. She is also the curator of the companion exhibition Breach of Peace. Robert and Helen Singleton were among the Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, who in 1961 converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws and were ultimately arrested and convicted of "breach of the peace." Widely exhibited artist Dominique Moody, whose work is featured in An Idea Called Tomorrow, has a BFA from University of California, Berkeley, and also studied at Pratt Institute.

ROAD TO FREEDOM: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1956-1968 IS ORGANIZED BY THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA. THE EXHIBITION IS SUPPORTED BY THE ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE FOUNDATION AND AN AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, WHICH BELIEVES THAT A GREAT NATION DESERVES GREAT ART.