America I Am
Walmart celebrates African Americans’ legacy through sponsorship of multi-sensory national exhibit
We are proud to serve as the presenting sponsor of a one-of-a-kind museum exhibition, which invites visitors to experience 500 years of African American struggles and triumphs. Featuring more than 150 extraordinary artifacts, photographs, music and videos, “America I AM: The African American Imprint” highlights how African people have shaped our lives, history and culture.
The exhibit was developed in partnership with The Smiley Group and organized by Arts and Exhibitions International and Cincinnati Museum Center.
Preview brings mobile version of exhibit to Americans across the country
Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart Home Office Stop
The first phase of the project featured a traveling “super truck” exhibit that brought Walmart customers and more than 40 local communities nationwide a preview of the America I AM experience.
In advance of the exhibit’s official January 2009 debut at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center, the multi-sensory experiential mobile exhibit hit the road in July 2008. For five months the super truck visited African American museums, festivals, landmarks and schools, as well as several Walmart stores that served as temporary hosts. View pictures of the “American I Am Across America” experience here.
Doug McDonald holds one of the first artifacts to be included in the exhibit, a vignetted portrait of Frederick Douglass.
“The Imprint” moves to Los Angeles
Doors opened October 29, 2009 for the west coast debut of America I AM: The African American Imprint. The California Science Center will host the exhibition through April 15, 2010, as the third stop on the exhibition’s 10-city, four-year tour. The exhibit has previously stopped in Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Exclusive to the Los Angeles showing is one of four original copies of the Declaration of Independence, on display until January 15, 2010. Other new additions to the Los Angeles presentation include items from Magic Johnson, Serena Williams, Carl Lewis and NASA astronauts.
Walmart is offering discounted exhibition tickets at 30 store locations throughout Southern California. More information about the exhibition and tickets is available at www.californiasciencecenter.org or www.AmericaIAM.org.
Exhibit is another part of our commitment to diversity
We employ 257,000 African Americans and are proud of our partnerships with organizations such as the National Urban League, Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, among many others. For more information on our commitment to the African-American community, click here.
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