The Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is presenting an exhibition titled "Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry" at multiple Baltimore venues from May 8 to July 31, 2010. The exhibition features new and previous works by the artists exploring issues of history, race, and identity through mediums including video, photography, painting and installation. EDS students organized the exhibition as part of their coursework, partnering with the Contemporary Museum, the Walters Art Museum, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, the Phoenix Shot Tower, Maryland Art Place, and the Carroll Mansion.

1. The Contemporary Museum and the Maryland Institute The Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) was founded by MICA’s Curator-in-Residence,
College of Art’s (MICA) Exhibition Development George Ciscle in 1997. The students in EDS 2009-2010 have partnered with the Contemporary
Seminar present a citywide, mid-career survey of work by Museum to organize Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry. Each year,
artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. Deeply students enrolled in EDS are responsible for every aspect of producing a professional exhibition,
immersed in issues of history, race and multiculturalism, including curatorial and site research, design and production of print and Web materials, and
McCallum and Tarry bring their focus on fraught social and educational programming. The goal of EDS is to explore new ways to engage artists, students,
political issues to the local histories and traditions of the museums, galleries and the Baltimore community.
Baltimore community. The Contemporary Museum is the
primary venue for this exhibition and premieres McCallum COURSE INSTRUCTOR EDUCATION SITE RESEARCH &
Phylicia Ghee ‘10 EXHIBITION DESIGN
and Tarry’s Projection—a new self-portrait video and Jennie Hirsh
Asst. Professor, Art History, L H Griffin ‘11 Paul Capetola ‘10
painting series inspired by film stills and stage photographs Theory & Criticism, MICA Joanna Kopczyk ‘11
Emily Hines ‘11
that investigate the intersection of race and popular culture. Lauren Trautvetter ‘11 Anton Merbaum ‘10
Additionally, Bearing Witness draws together a number COURSE MENTORS
Mentor: Emily Blumenthal Julie Ransdell ‘11
of McCallum and Tarry’s earlier site- specific projects, George Ciscle Manager of Family Programs, Mentor: Daniel D’Oca
Director of Curatorial Studies The Walters Art Museum
temporarily embedding them in various museum and gallery Asst. Professor, Art History,
Concentration, Curator-in-Residence,
Theory & Criticism, MICA
venues throughout the city of Baltimore. MICA
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Amy Peterson
WEB &
Bearing Witness is part of the Contemporary Museum’s Creative Writing Faculty, Language, Mimi Cheng '11
Literature & Culture, MICA Sara Kong '10 COMMUNICATIONS
Project 20, a yearlong series of exhibitions, performances
Carla Marie Padvoiskis '12 Marika Garcia ‘10
and site-specific projects celebrating the museum’s CURATORIAL Madeline Peters ‘11
Mentor: Gerry Greaney
20th anniversary. For more visitor information about the Beth Brown '11 Principal, Greaney Design Mentor: Sandy Triolo
Contemporary Museum and Project 20, please visit Michelle Gomez '12 Artist, Collaborator, Digital
Christina Joseph '12 PROJECT MANAGEMENT Media Consultant
www.contemporary.org
Ellice Park '11 Sam Gainsburg ‘10
A collaborative artist team since 1998, Brooklyn-based Caitlin Richeson '12 Joanna White MFA ‘10
artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry have worked Mentor: Irene Hofmann Mentor: Jennie Hirsh
and exhibited globally, seeking to surface and discuss issues Executive Director and Curator, Asst. Professor, Art History,
Contemporary Museum Theory & Criticism, MICA
revolving around marginalized members of society. Their work,
which takes many forms including large-scale public projects,
performance, sculpture, painting, photography, video and
self-portraiture, challenges audiences to face issues of race and
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social justice in family, community and history.
For more information about the exhibition and
related proramming please visit:
www.mica.edu/mccallumtarry THANK YOU GAL L ERY G U ID E & M AP
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Bearing Witness is made possible partially through generous support from Friends of the
For cell phone tour information please call Exhibition Development Seminar, the National Endowment for the Arts and the William
(410) 454-9919 G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund.
MICA’s exhibitions and public programs receive generous support from the Robert and Jane
Meyerhoff Special Programs Endowment, Amalie Rothschild '34 Residency Programs Endowment,
The Rouse Company Endowment, Richard Kalter Endowment, Maryland State Arts Council and contemporarymuseum
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the generous contributors to MICA’s Annual Fund.
This guide is made possible through the generosity of Friends of Exhibition Development Seminar.
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