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TGCD has participated in or supported the following events;
all were produced by TGCD and curated by Roland L. Freeman:

2001-2002An international exhibit, Testimony Through Art, for the World Court of Women Against War, for Peace in Cape Town, South Africa. This exhibit incorporated photographs, dolls, quilts, tapestries, paintings, drawings, poetry and narrative from 35 countries. Other venues were in Pretoria, South Africa (May - June 2001), Windhoek, Namibia (July -August 2001), and Atlanta, GA (May-September 2002). This exhibit was organized in collaboration with the Asian Women's Human Rights council, Bangalore, India and El Taller, Tunis, Tunisia. TGCD also produced a related arts and humanities symposium that examined the meaning and relevance of the exhibit. The symposium was held in Atlanta, GA in conjunction with the 2002 National Black Arts Festival.
1998-2002The Mule Train: A Journey of Hope Remembered; an exhibit celebrating the 30th Anniversary the Mule Train and the Poor People's Campaign of which it was a key element. Freeman is also author of the companion book.
1997-2002The national touring exhibit, A Communion of the Spirits, began a five-year national tour at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS. The exhibit of more than 200 photographs and other artifacts draws from Freeman's three decades of documenting African American quilters. A similarly titled book by Freeman was published in conjunction with the exhibit.
1999Common Threads: Creating a Cloth of Empowerment, an international symposium addressing the role of textile collectives in women's empowerment, at the Smithsonian Institution's S. Dillon Ripley Center, as an adjunct to the Smithsonian showing of A Communion of the Spirits.
1997-1998Bringin' It All Back Home: An Exhibit in Celebration of the 20th Century of the Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festivals a national touring exhibit that opened at the Smithsonian Institution's 1998 Festival of American Folklife and traveled to five additional venues.
1996"Roland Freeman's I've Known Rivers," photographs of Africans and African Americans, developed for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
1992

Some Things of Value: Images of African and African-American Folklife, a quincentenary exhibit of photographs, artifacts and a genealogy chart, for the 1992 National Black Arts Festival at THE APEX Museum, Atlanta, Georgia. One of Freeman's images is selected for use on the official festival poster.

Freeman's one-man show, "Margaret Walker Alexander's For My People: A Tribute," opened at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi; and a commemorative book of the same name was published by the University Press of Mississippi.

Expressions of the Soul: Three Perspectives on Baltimore's African-American Folklife, an exhibit including Freeman's photographs of the Arabbers of Baltimore, folk art by Joy Alston, and contemporary quilts by African-American women in Baltimore, opened at The Eubie Blake National Museum and Cultural Center, Baltimore, Maryland.

More Than Just Something To Keep You Warm: Tradition and Change in African-American Quilting, a quincentenary tour of quilts and photographs from the Roland L. Freeman Collection, opened at the Springside School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and traveled to three additional locations.

1991The Group for Cultural Documentation, Inc., is founded as a Washington, DC-based 501(c)(3) publicly supported tax-exempt organization.