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.”

“The organization realizes its mission by originating and developing project-driven expressions of documentary work (documentary work is defined as: oral histories, photography, video, visual art, research, oral storytelling, and narrative). A documentary project may build, for example, toward a traveling photography exhibit with audio guides and a publication; or it may move toward a publication with a cd (audio content); or it may aim to produce a series of short films with a website. There are many authentic, and effective, ways to shape and present the content of documentary work. Cdea projects that develop traveling exhibits are accompanied by multi- faceted, education-outreach programs and fall into two categories: (1) major exhibits created for large museums that contain national subject matter infused with significant human rights issues, and (2) educational exhibits designed for use by utah's k-12 public school students, community centers, libraries, and smaller museums that explore the state's multi- cultural history and environmental issues. Exhibits traveling inside utah are presented under the title exhibits that teach (ett) and contain four- to-eight-week, place-based, artists/scholars-in-residence (asir) programs (ett-asir). 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 average, 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 thirty percent of visitors 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 intermittent basis since 2013. In fall 2013, this light of ours: activist photographers of the civil rights movement 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 partnered with the maltz museum of jewish heritage, located in cleveland, ohio, to carry out a second five-year tour. The start of the tour was delayed by the 2019-2020 outbreak of the covid- 19 pandemic, interfering with the february-august 2020 display at the bullock sate history museum, in austin, texas. The second national tour is expected to conclude with the display of this light of ou”

“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 generally 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-artivism (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 history, utah's cultural diversity, indigenous cultures, indigenous art, ecology, biology, environmental science, immigration, discrimination and racism, cross cultural 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 timpanogos 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-artivism-artists/scholars-in-residence program was presented at the mcgillis school in salt lake city.”

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