Exhibitions, Fall 2007

		Mario Gooden, The Calhoun; a musical hotspot and place of refuge during segregation. The Dresser Trunk Project Photo by Mario Gooden

The Dresser Trunk Project
November 3 – December 23

Organized by William Daryl Williams, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, this traveling exhibition features 9–11 display trunks designed by architects from around the country, each of which tells a story of a place of refuge in an era of segregation. These sites, all of which are located in a city served by the Southern Crescent Line, range from a hotel to a train station to a Negro League baseball park. Even with the passage of time and the inevitable loss of structures, The Dresser Trunk Project seeks to link these places together to bring forth into the present their location in architectural, musical and cultural history. The trunks contain stories, photographs, maps, hotel registers, and computer-generated models of the way places looked or might have looked during the segregation era. The exhibition will be shown at ten locations along the Crescent Line (currently the Amtrak service connecting New Orleans and New York).

Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, Amtrak, and Arts Enhancement Funds

Gallery Talk
by William Williams

Saturday, November 3, 2 pm
In the Museum