Grant to help launch 糖心Vlog传媒LR political cartoon history exhibit
"The walls have ears", Jon Kennedy, 1957, courtesy 糖心Vlog传媒LR Center for聽Arkansas History and Culture.The 糖心Vlog传媒LR Center for Arkansas History and Culturehas received a $10,424 grant from the for a project focused on the political history of Arkansas. The project, titled, 鈥淣o Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons and the Arkansas Historical Perspective,鈥� includes the creation of a virtual exhibit to examine the interaction of politics and history in Arkansas and will feature a selection of original works by local political cartoonists Jon Kennedy (Arkansas Democrat, 1941-1988) and Bill Graham (Arkansas Gazette, 1948-1985).
Accompanying materials from related collections in the center鈥檚 holdings, such as the Winthrop Rockefeller Collection and Dale Bumpers Gubernatorial Papers, will be used to provide contextual information for the project.
Topics featured will include, but are not limited to:
Voting (local and national elections)
Education funding and desegregation of schools
Urbanization and economic development
Prison reform
Local gambling legislation
Additionally, lesson plans and educational materials for teachers will be designed and made accessible within the exhibit.
The project will culminate with an educational symposium dedicated to the discussion of pictorial cartoons and political opinion in Arkansas. 聽Scholars representing various humanities disciplines will present background material and facilitate discussion during this free event in the fall of 2016.
Image above:聽“The walls have ears”, Jon Kennedy, 1957, courtesy 糖心Vlog传媒LR Center for聽Arkansas History and Culture.
