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For Immediate Release
Ohio Historical Society 2008 Exhibits Visually Appealing
COLUMBUS, Ohio January 2, 2008 – From quilts to Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs to Norman Rockwell’s paintings, Ohio Historical Society museums will be opening new exhibitions for 2008 that explore history visually.
From April 25 to July 25, the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus will feature Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, the largest and most comprehensive collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos from 1942 to 2007. These powerful images have not only captured the defining moments of history, but have changed lives and the way we think. There are the iconic pictures of the World Trade Center attack, the flag raising at Iwo Jima and Kent State as well as tender moments like Babe Ruth's last day as a Yankee. Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs was developed by the Newseum, the interactive museum of news, in association with Business of Entertainment, Inc., NYC, Cyma Rubin, curator.
Later in the year, the Ohio Historical Center will change its focus from real images to the imagination of one of the most popular artists of the 20th century—Norman Rockwell. Rockwell’s America: Celebrating the Art of Norman Rockwell, presented by The Becker Group, is the largest Norman Rockwell exhibit in the world. Guests literally step inside the art of Norman Rockwell and experience it in three dimensions. Enjoy traveling through time and looking back at true Americana. The exhibit, which runs From Nov. 1, 2008-March 1, 2009, will feature Rockwell's 322 Saturday Evening Post covers and life-size, interactive sculptures of his most famous paintings, including a recreation of the artist’s studio.
To stitch it all together, a trio of quilt shows will debut at three Ohio Historical Society museums in 2008. From March 8 to Nov. 8, the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce will bring an unparalleled collection of African-American quilts together for the first time in Quilting African American Women's History: Our Challenges, Creativity, and Champions. The more than 100 quilts featured include works from some of America's best known African-American quilters. Quilting Stories at the Ohio Historical Center, from June 1 to Oct. 12, will show how 19th- and 20th-century Ohio quilters used quilting to tell stories about family, heroes, celebrations and even political causes. All quilts on display are from the Ohio Historical Society's extensive collection of some 200 years of quilting in Ohio. At the Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont Patterns from the Past: Quilts of Northern Ohio will display 19th- to early 20th-century regionally-made quilts from June 7 to Jan. 4, 2009.
The Ohio Historical Society is a nonprofit organization that serves as the state’s partner in preserving and interpreting Ohio’s history, archaeology and natural history. For more information about Ohio Historical Society sites and museums, including the Ohio Historical Center and Ohio Village in Columbus, please call 614.297.2300/800.686.6124 or visit www.ohiohistory.org.
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Media contact: Kim Schuette: 614.297.2314 or kschuette@ohiohistory.org
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