UMD's Sesame Street Archival Showcase

Please join the Jim Henson Working Group, the Children's Media Working Group, 

the Hornbake Library, The Center for Archival Futures, and the Clarice Smith Library for a celebration of UMD's long standing archival relationship to Sesame Street and Jim Henson: "The UMD Sesame Street Archival Showcase." The exhibit opening ceremony will take place on October 1st, from12:30PM-4:00PM in the Hornbake Library lobby. At 2PM, Jim Henson Corporation Archivist Susie Toft will speak. 

Open until December 20th, The Sesame Street Archival Showcase, under the broader exhibit Unboxing Innovation at UMD, will focus on the archival material that demonstrates the “hidden curriculum” of Sesame Street to educate underrepresented communities across urban and rural areas in the United States. This exhibit involves highlighting the importance of African American culture, celebrity and context to the creation and success of Sesame Street. The exhibit will host the be-bopping, jive talking puppet Roosevelt Franklin, created by Jim Henson, discuss his success as a character, the political outcry in response, and his eventual discontinuation. The showcase aims to demonstrate the strength of the UMD archives in Radio, Television, and Public Media. These growing archives provide an untapped resource for creative teaching practices here at UMD in the humanities, the social sciences, and education.