Center for Documentary Expression and Art

“The center for documentary expression and art's board chair and executive director meet and review the 990. The 990 is also reviewed by the members of the board of directors.”

“The executive director's compensation is determined by the board of directors during the budgeting process each year. The board of directors considers market rates in determining a reasonable level of compensation. The approval of the budget, including the executive director's compensation, is documented.”

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“The center for documentary expression and art (cdea) is dedicated to using the tools of documentary workoral history, photography, film making, narrative writing, visual art, and music to help utahns look inward to better understand our state's past and present and to gaze outward to discover our multi-faceted connection to the nation and the world. Cdea creates and supports projects that examine and honor the cultural, spiritual, and ethnic identities of our nation's diverse population in forums wherein we can acknowledge differences, establish common ground, and hence, build community.”

“Cdea's mission is realized through the development and production of original documentary projects that lead to the design and development of traveling exhibits and robust, multi-faceted, education outreach programs that accompany each exhibit. The development of major exhibits with education outreach efforts is ongoing. Each exhibit and its related programs take on the average of five-to-seven years to research, develop, and produce. Cdea recently completed work on an exhibit titled, this light of ours: activist photographers of the civil rights movement. This exhibit presents the civil rights movement through the work and voices of nine activist photographers-eight men and one woman who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement. The exhibit inaugurated the human rights gallery at the leonardo: an art, science, and technology center, in downtown salt lake city, in october 2111, and remained available to the utah public for nine months, closing in june 2012. More than 58,000 people visited the display, with about nine percent of total visitors being school children. Beginning in the fall 2013, the exhibit started traveling outside the state of utah. An initial five-year period (2013-2017) was set aside for the exhibit's national tour. Alongside the utah opening of this light of ours, cdea developed an education outreach program that included a month-long symposium on four utah college campuses; audio guides for youth and adults that were accessed via a cell phone; a six-page brochure for use by students and the general public; a major book that accompanies the exhibit and can also stand-alone that is published through the university press of mississippi; and special events involving local and national activists. Cdea also partnered with utah's pbs affiliate, kued-tv, to create utah's freedom riders, a thirty- minute film that presented utah's civil rights activists and culminated the exhibit. Cdea currently works with significant museums around the country that are hosting the exhibit to design education programming that will enhance the display's presentation in those communities.”

“The organization's second major program consists of shorter-term documentary projects with educational exhibits designed for use by k-12 students, community centers, urban and rural libraries, and smaller museums that explore utah's multicultural history and environmental issues. These smaller exhibits that travel primarily inside utah are produced under the title of exhibits that teach (ett)-artists/scholars-in-residence (ett-asir) and contain intensive four-to-eight-week long artists/scholars-in-residence programs that are designed to engage students in intensive, long-term projects that promote study of the documentary arts; generate original student art; and encourage integrating arts learning with learning in other subjects. Exhibits that teach (ett)-artists/scholars-in-residence programs ett-asir programs use free-standing displays that are smaller than major exhibits and are designed for use in utah's k-12 schools, community sites, public libraries, and rural museums. Exhibits contain photographs, oral histories and related text, and are generally booked at public schools a year-in-advance of their presentation to enable full planning for the accompanying four-to-eight week artists/scholars-in-residence programs. Four traveling ett-asir programs are currently in use: faces and voices of refugee youth; sacred images: a vision of native american rock art; reawakened beauty: the past, present, and future of the jordan river; and ceremonies: a tale of sister cities ett displays and accompanying artists/scholars-in-residence programs enable students to create original art while exploring such varied subjects as: utah history, indigenous cultures, ecology, biology, environmental science, immigration, discrimination and racism, cross cultural communication, and resolving conflict nonviolently. Over the 2014-15 fiscal year, sacred images: a vision of native american rock art was presented at hillcrest high school and bryant middle school in the canyons and salt lake city school district, respectively. Reawakened beauty: the past, present, and future of the jordan river was presented at the pacific heritage academy and hunter high school in the salt lake city and the granite school district, respectively. And the faces and voices of refugee youth-artists/scholars-in-residence program was presented at the utah international charter school. Professional development cdea has a long-term commitment to designing and presenting professional development programs to utah public school teachers that enhance their abilities to present multi-cultural content about the nation's diverse history and contemporary culture. Following the 2011 debut of this light of ours in utah, cdea executive director leslie kelen partnered with the utah state office of education (usoe) social studies specialist to prepare an eight-week, on-line course to introduce utah public school teachers to the nation's civil rights movement. This on-line class was completed in 2012. It has been offered to utah public school teachers annually since 2013 by cdea director leslie kelen. Cdea understands the utah state office of education will continue to offer the class annually. Previously, in 2000, cdea designed a two-semester-long teacher training course-multiculturalism & storytelling this initiative helped k-12 public school teachers infuse utah-based multicultural content into social studies, language arts, math, and science curricula. In 2008, cdea developed a website from the course titled, multiculturalism & storytelling. The site contains selected lesson plans and action research models developed by teachers that took the course between 2000-2006. The aim of this website is twofold: (1) to make multicultural educational tools developed by the class' teachers available to educators statewide, and (2) to enrich the dialogue on the methods and goals of multicultural education in utah. The website can be currently accessed on the utah education network http://www.uen.or”

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