Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger

Please join us on December 5, 2024, from 3:30 to 5 pm at UMBC as we celebrate the life and legacy of Maurice Berger (1956–2020), who was research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC), until his death in 2020.

Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger launches the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, in support of the exploration of, and research into, histories of race, representation and justice in visual culture, with the goal of creating accessible public programming. The event also celebrates the publication of “RACE STORIES: Essays on the Power of Images,” a collection of Berger’s award-winning essays co-published by Aperture and The New York Times, featuring speakers such as Aruna D’Souza, Marvin Heiferman, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Lowery Stokes Sims, Maleke Glee, Timothy Nohe, and others.

A reception will follow the program.

This program is free, but registration is required at https://forms.gle/TLu5p5kuoTZJuVM19

To contribute to the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, please visit https://shorturl.at/tYjBU

For more information about RACE STORIES, please visit https://aperture.org/.../race-stories-essays-on-the.../

For more information about the program, please visit https://cadvc.umbc.edu/celebrating-maurice-berger/

For directions to CADVC please visit https://umbc.edu/venue/center-for-art-design-and-visual-culture-cadvc/

Please contact cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188 and specify the nature of your request as soon as possible if you need specific accommodations for this event or to experience the gallery exhibition.

Header: Levester Williams, "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore" (2021-2024) 4K color video/video installation still (Coming from behind, a hand with dark brown skin tone reaches around to the front of a marble column in a park-like setting. In the background a bland white marble border runs between a parallel strip of grass and a reflecting pool.) Photo courtesy of the artist. Body: Photo courtesy Steve Miller (Maurice Berger, at the opening of "Revolution of the Eye," stands smiling looking forward in front of a wall-spanning CBS logo.)