A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
LaToya spent five months living in Flint, Michigan, documenting the lives of those affected by the city's water crisis for her photo essay Flint is Family. As the crisis dragged on, she realized it was going to take more than a series of photos to bring relief. In this inspiring, surprising TED talk, she shares the creative lengths she went to in order to bring free, clean water to the people of Flint.
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Reflections on Home, Family, and Representation
Glasstire by Jessica Fuentes Review: Diaries of Home at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth I’m a 41-year-old woman and for most of my life the adults around me — educators, mentors, family — have given me the same consistent advice, “Whatever you do, don’t get pregnant.” As an adolescent I was baffled by these […]
Baltimore Museum of Art Celebrates 110th Anniversary
Culture Type by Victoria Valintine Paying tribute to the vast talents of artists John Akomfrah and LaToya Ruby Frazier and civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill with inaugural awards was the highlight of the evening. The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Ball and Party honored artist LaToya Ruby Frazier; artist John Akomfrah; and BMA Trustee, civil rights […]
The Art World Explores Concrete Ways to Fight Climate Change
New York Times by Alina Tugend Museums, galleries and other art institutions are looking for measures to reduce their environmental footprints. Visitors to the Hammer Museum’s show “Breath(e) Toward Climate and Social Justice” will be greeted by powerful works portraying the widespread impact of ecological degradation: photos of citizens in Flint, Mich., waiting for clean water, […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
Brooklyn Rail by Kamora Monroe LaToya Ruby Frazier is an enigma, but her subjects are definitely not. Installation view: LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado. A comprehensive exhibition of Frazier’s work over the years, titled Monuments of Solidarity, is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art. Comprehensive […]
Breath(e): Toward and Climate and Social Justice
Flaunt Magazine by Julia Zara Time is of the Essence in this PST ART Initiative at the Hammer Museum We measure everything in time—the hours left in a flight, the minutes remaining for our pasta to boil, the seconds until a workout is over—with eyes glued to the timer. As time dwindles down and our […]
BMA to present ‘More Than Conquerors’
Baltimore Fishbowl by Ed Gunts Baltimore’s Community Health Workers are the subject of an art installation that the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present starting in November, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s installation entitled More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022. LaToya Ruby Frazier. More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community […]
In Photos of Flint and of Health Care Workers, LaToya Ruby Frazier Updates American Iconography
Art In America by Shameekia Shantel Johnson Since the early 2000s, Frazier has enlisted photography to transform everyday people and community organizers into statuesque figures. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Momme, 2008 There’s nothing more American than the idioms capturing the pride of hard work and individuality, the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “burning the […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier on Lee Friedlander’s Ohio Factory Valley Series
“I can speak through photographs about how I feel about my lived experience in America and pay homage to people who are also everyday working people.” A photographer finds “healing” in the representation of Black working-class histories. Photographer and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier sees the legacy of the Black women of America’s working class in […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monuments to Workers
by Lovia Gyarkye Hammer & Hope The artist works with her collaborators to try to “invert and redistribute wealth and power.” On a cool evening in May, LaToya Ruby Frazier gathered with friends and strangers in a basement theater at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The communion was a public event tied to the […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monument to Empathy
Hyperallergic by Zoë Hopkins Though Frazier’s photography is often described as “documentary,” it betrays a thorough investment in and interchange with those she photographs. LaToya Ruby Frazier, “Marilyn Moore, UAW Local 1112, Women’s Committee and Retiree Executive Board, (Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., Lear Seating Corp., 32 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, Assembly Plant, […]
Blending Photography and Activism
Culture Type by Victoria Valentine First Museum Survey of LaToya Ruby Frazier Showcases Array of Photo-Based Projects, Bringing Attention to Communities in Crisis Fighting for Basic Human Rights LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER, Sandra Gould Ford Wearing Her Work Jacket and Hard Hat in Her Meditation Room in Homewood, PA from On the Making of Steel Genesis: […]
‘I’ve Used My Camera as a Compass’
Cultured Magazine by LaToya Ruby Frazier LaToya Ruby Frazier Shares the Tenets Behind Her Practice—and First MoMA Show As her exhibition “Moments of Solidarity” opens for previews, the artist-activist shares her accompanying credo exclusively with CULTURED. Here, Frazier outlines the origins, timelines, and influences behind the 23 years of work on view in the expansive show. […]