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Meridian serves as both the starting point for our traveling exhibitions and as the host for the international exhibits that come to the United States.
On View Now through July 13, 2008, at Meridian Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World – Opened April 3, 2008 
Meridian presents a photographic exhibition that chronicles the international tours of legendary jazz musicians selected by the U.S. State Department to serve as roving cultural "ambassadors" from the 1950's through the 1970's. Over 100 compelling images, together with posters and other materials, portray the journeys of music greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, and Sarah Vaughan.
Jam Session illustrates the ways in which this innovative approach to cultural diplomacy helped the United States share its message successfully -- often in moments critical to American foreign policy. Read more... Photo: Dizzy Gillespie, Pakistan, 1956.
Courtesy of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
Recent Exhibitions
Five American Voices: Selections from the Freedom Place Collection of Stuart Marshall Bloch and Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch (February 7 - March 16, 2008)
Five American Voices showcased over 30 paintings, watercolors and collages by distinguished 20th century African-American artists Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Robert Freeman and Richard Yarde, whose art, though distinct, is united by their grounding in the 20th century African-American experience. These artists became preeminent in their time and created innovative, expressionistic works drawing from their social environment. Read more...
Image: Hidden Hands, by Robert Freeman, 1987
Life at the Edge: The Big Thaw Photo by Paul Nicklen/National Geographic
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ult of rising temperatures in the atmosphere. Life at the Edge: The Big Thaw included 50 compelling photographs by renowned photographer Paul Nicklen, with additional photographer James Balog, which chronicle the powerful change taking place in the Arctic landscape. 1630 Crescent Place, NW, Washington DC 20009 (map) | Phone: (202) 667-6800 | Fax: (202) 667-1475