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 organization has a written conflict of interest policy. This policy requires that all board members and management annually review the policy and disclose any potential conflict of interest. If potential conflicts of interest are disclosed, the executive committee reviews those conflicts to determine the most appropriate course of action. Typically, this includes recusal from vote on items for which the board member has a real or potential conflict of interest.”

“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.”

“Governing documents are made available upon request.”

“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.”

“Documentary projects resulting in major exhibits the development of documentary projects resulting in major, traveling exhibits with books and films, or other expressions of documentary work, is ongoing. On the av-erage, documentary projects that result in a major exhibit take four-to-six years to research, develop, design, and produce. Between 2006-2011, the organization completed a major exhibit titled, this light of ours: activist photographers of the civil rights movement. This project presented the civil rights movement through the work and voices of eight men and one woman who documented 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 2011, and remained available to the utah public for nine months, or until june 2012. The presentation of this light of ours included cell-phone accessible, audio guides for youth and adults; a free, six-page brochure for use by students and the general public; a 53pg curriculum guide for grades 7-12; and a 251pg book published by the university press of mississippi. The organization also organized a month-long symposia at three utah universities and a community college involving local and national activists and historians. Cdea also partnered with utah's pbs affiliate, kued-tv, to create utah's freedom riders, a 30 minute film presenting utah's civil rights activists. More than 58,000 people visited the display in utah, with about nine percent of visi-tors being k-16 students. In 2013, following the exhibit's debut, the organization's executive director leslie kelen was retained by the utah state board of education (usbe) to create an eight-week, on-line course to introduce utah public school teachers to the civil rights movement. Director kelen has taught the class on an annual basis since 2013. In fall 2013, this light of ours: activist photographers of the civil rights move-ment started traveling outside utah. A five-year period (2013- 2018) was set aside for the exhibit's initial national tour. This touring period culminated with the exhibit's display at the irving arts center in irving, texas, between january-march 2018. In may 2018, the organization contracted with the maltz museum of jewish herit-age, located in cleveland, ohio, to carry out a second five-year tour. This tour will run to may 2023. The exhibit is currently on display at the bullock sate history museum, in austin, texas. New documentary projects and potential exhibits since 2016-17, the organization has conducted research aimed at developing two interrelated projects. The first is titled, when you live in this world: an oral his-tory. This project will use hundreds of oral histories created by the organization between 1982-1989, and 1998-2003 to convey the 20th and 21st century story of utah's ethnic and minority people. When you live in this world involves reediting, expanding, and redesigning the organization's foundational book, missing stories: an oral history of ethnic and minority groups in utah, which was first published by the university of utah press in 1995 as a part of utah's state centennial celebra-tions. Unlike missing stories, which used oral histories to present eight, 20th cen-tury, community profiles, when you live in this world will use a geograph-ic/chronological/thematic format to convey a people's history of 20th and 21st cen-tury utah with broad appeal to utah educators and the general public. The second (and interrelated endeavor) is titled, my america: stories of utah's immigrants, migrants, and refugees. My america is conceived of as a series of short (under 8 minutes long) videos that tell the stories of immigrants, migrants, and refugees who left their places of origin in the 1924-1965 and 1965 to-the pre-sent periods and relocated to utah because of economic opportunities, governm”

“Documentary projects resulting in exhibits that teach (ett)- artists/scholars-in-residence (asir) programs exhibits that teach displays are smaller than major exhibits and are designed for use in utah's k-12 public schools, public libraries, and rural museums. Exhibits contain photographs and oral histories (with related didactic text). They are gener-ally booked from four-to-eight weeks at each educational site. Five exhibits that teach displays are currently available. In order of their development, they are: - faces and voices of refugee youth (2002); - sacred images: a vision of native american rock art (2007); - ceremonies: a tale of sister cities (2008); - reawakened beauty: the past, present, and future of the jordan river (2009); and - justice-memory-activism (2014). Three of the exhibits (sacred images; reawakened beauty; and justice- memory-activism) are accompanied by cdea-designed artists/scholars-in- residence (asir) programs. Asir programs engage students in intensive, long-term, place-based projects that promote study and practice of the documentary arts; generate original student art; and integrate arts learning with learning in other subjects. Exhibits that teach displays and artists/scholars-in-residence programs enable students to create original art while exploring such varied subjects as: utah histo-ry, utah's cultural diversity, indigenous cultures, indigenous art, ecology, biolo-gy, environmental science, immigration, discrimination and racism, cross cul-tural communication, and resolving conflict nonviolently. Over the past eighteen months, sacred images: a vision of native american rock art-artists/scholars-in-residence program was presented at mountain view high school in the alpine school district. Reawakened beauty: the past, present, and future of the jordan river-artists/scholars-in-residence program was presented at brighton high school, in the canyons school district. And justice-memory-activism-artists/scholars-in-residence program was presented at the mcgillis school in salt lake city.”

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