August 7 - October 23, 2009: Capture the moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs 

This traveling exhibition organized is the largest display of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever shown in the United States. The show will feature 143 award-winning images from 1942 (when the Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism was established) through the 2009 awards. Visitors to this exhibition will see one of the most extensive and dramatic traveling displays ever mounted at the museum. Photographic images will be arranged chronologically. Each photograph will be accompanied by a firsthand account of the events leading up to the photograph. Gallery of Visual Arts and MMAC (the Meloy and Paxson Galleries) and will co-host this exhibition. The GVA is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11-5, Thursday from 11-7, and Monday by appointment; the exhibition will run from August 7 – October 23

Image: U.S. Marines raise American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in the South Pacific, Feb. 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal, The Associated Press