Special Events at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library provides a unique experience for the visitor. Through displays of room settings, objects, documents, photographs, audio, and video, visitors can acquire a close-up view of the modern American Presidency.

Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize is on display

Changing exhibits are drawn from the library and museum collections or are based on themes relating to the presidency and American political history. Many of these are traveling exhibitions from the Smithsonian Institution, other Presidential Libraries, and other museums around the world.

If you would like to be notified about upcoming exhibits, book signings, lectures or presentations, please contact us at carter_events@nara.gov

Our current schedule is:

Dorothy Allison and Elizabeth Anderson Reading, Writing, and Rabble Rousing Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. Free and Open to the Public
Dorothy is the author of the acclaimed books Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, Skin, and other works. Elizabeth is a graduate student in Southern literature at the University of Mississippi and an alumna of Charis Circle's High School Writer's Group. For more information contact: Sara Saunders, Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, 404-865-7155 Email: sara.saunders@nara.gov

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Philip Lee Williams
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public

One of Georgia's favorite authors has an exciting new historical novel set in Civil War-era Atlanta, A Distant Flame. This lecture is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book at the DeKalb County Public Library with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum.

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Evening of Poetry, Song & Drama
Friday, October 22, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public

Six of the South's most dynamic writers, performers and spoken word artists will take the stage in the theater at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. The readings and performances celebrate the publication of "MANIFESTATIONS: the d'Arts Literary Anthology," edited by Gary Corseri.

Featuring work from 50 writers and artists from around the world, with a focus on the US South and Georgia, "MANIFESTATIONS" is a project of the DeKalb Council for the Arts in support of literacy, and the written and spoken word.

Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Copies of "MANIFESTATIONS" and other works will be available for purchase in the Carter Museum lobby.

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Three Pulitzer Historians Come to Atlanta
August 27, 2004 at 8:00 pm; October 24, 2004 at 2 p.m. and
November 11, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public

A first for Atlanta - a series of public appearances by three of America's most distinguished historians, all winners of the Pulitzer Prize.

The series, "A Trio of Pulitzers," is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book at the DeKalb County Public Library with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum. The three programs offer metro Atlantans the opportunity to hear free lectures and meet prize-winning historians.

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After 9/11: Messages from the World and Images of Ground Zero
Third Anniversary is Commemorated with Artifacts, Letters & Photographs
September 4, 2004 - January 2, 2005

The U.S. Diplomacy Center of the U.S. State Department, in cooperation with the Museum of the City of New York, has put together an exhibition of letters, poems, paintings, drawings, quilts, photos, and other gifts that poured into New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Many of these genuine expressions of sympathy were brought or sent to U.S. Embassies around the world. The exhibition also includes photographs of Ground Zero.

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Hand to Hand: Two Grand Masters of Suzhou Embroidery Featuring works by Gu Wenxia, Grand Master of China and Yu Fuzhen, Grand Master of Jiangsu Province February 19 - June 11, 2005
One of China's greatest artistic traditions, the embroideries of Suzhou, will come to the Carter Presidential Library in 2005, nearly 25 years after President Carter signed a Cultural Agreement between the United States and the People's Republic of China to recognize the importance of exchanges in the areas of the arts and culture. The collection will include 32 pieces by Gu Wenxia, Grand Master Embroiderer of China and her protégé, Yu Fuzhen, Grand Master Embroiderer of Jiangsu Province. Grand Master Gu, as chief designer and president of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute, developed the design for the world-famous double-sided "Kitten Playing with Mantis." The iconic stature of this piece has been enhanced as it has become the most popular official gift from China to American Presidents. Variations of the "Kitten" design can be found at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. The collection of unforgettable embroideries will include colorful landscapes, animals, portraits and flowers. The Carter Presidential Library & Museum will be the sole venue for this show outside China.

The Museum is open from 9 a.m.to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4:45 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $7.00 - Adults; $5.00 - Seniors (60+), Military, and students with IDs; Free - Children (16 and under).  Parking - Free.  The Museum is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. For more information, please call 404-865-7101.

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