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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Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: GM Plant Closing
Professor David Harvey talks about the work of photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier who documents the news of the Lordstown, Ohio plant closing and the impact it had on the workers, families and community at large. Courtesy of: Democracy at Work
In San Francisco, Wielding Influence (Gently) Through Art
The New York Times by Ted Loos “Soft Power” looks at how creativity helps to shape society. “Soft Power,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through mid-February, epitomizes its era in that it looks self-consciously at the ways in which cultural influence is exerted, with special attention to previously hidden voices. “The title […]
Episode No. 412: LaToya Ruby Frazier
The Modern Art Notes Podcast features LaToya Ruby Frazier. The Renaissance Society in Chicago is showing “LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze.” The exhibition features a new body of work that focuses on the United Auto Workers members at General Motors’s Lordstown, Ohio plant. The facility, which had produced automobiles for over 50 years, was […]
Renaissance Society exhibition shines light on Northeast Ohio working class
Hyde Park Herald by Aaron Gettinger Two days before 50,000 United Automobile Workers (UAW) members went on strike against General Motors over pay and idled plants, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier opened “The Last Cruze” at the Renaissance Society, shining a light on the toll GM’s decision to “un-allocate” a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, has taken […]
‘No One Was Going to Pay Attention’
ARTnews by Claire Voon As GM Auto Workers Strike in Ohio, LaToya Ruby Frazier Debuts Photos of Union Laborers in Chicago Last November, workers at a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, received some fateful news: the automotive company’s chief executive, Mary Barra, had decided to “unallocate” the 53-year-old factory in town, in addition to […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze: Lost Labor
FAD Magazine by Caira Moreira-Brown Visual artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier showcases her collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her photographs, videos, texts, interviews, and performances in her latest exhibition, The Last Cruze at The Renaissance Society in Chicago, IL. The Last Cruze zooms in on Lordstown, Ohio and the automotive union there. Fraizer […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Labor of Love
The photographer’s first Chicago solo show centers on workers at a beleaguered GM factory in Ohio. Chicago Magazine by Jake Malooey Last November, LaToya Ruby Frazier got wind of the kind of news she finds both troubling and creatively motivating. General Motors was planning to close five North American plants in the coming year. The […]
Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote
As the 2020 elections approach, Abrams is leading the battle against voter suppression. The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb “I have the right to do the things I think I should do,” Abrams said. “My gender and my race should not be limitations.”Photograph by LaToya Ruby Frazier for The New Yorker Among the many issues […]
LaToya Ruby at the Mudam Luxembourg
Wall Street International Magazine by Staff 27 Apr — 22 Sep 2019 Mudam Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Luxembourg Coinciding with May 2019, the European Month of Photography, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents a monographic exhibition for one of the most important photographers of her generation, LaToya Ruby Frazier (*1982). Since the early 2000s this […]
The End of the Line: What Happens to a Factory Town When the Factory Shuts Down?
The New York Times Photo Essay and Interviews by LaToya Ruby Frazier Louis Robinson Jr., 77 Recording secretary for Local 1714 of the United Auto Workers from 1999 to 2018 “One mistake the international unions in the United States made was when Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers. When he did that, the unions […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier – The Last Cruze
The Renaissance Society presents a new body of work by acclaimed artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze, centered on the workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. After more than fifty years of auto production, and a current commitment to manufacture the Chevrolet Cruze until 2021, the facility has recently been “unallocated” […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier to receive Honorary Doctorate
Edinboro welcomes MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship recipient as spring commencement speaker LaToya Ruby Frazier, an internationally recognized visual artist and social justice advocate, will return to her alma mater to deliver the commencement address at Edinboro University’s undergraduate ceremony on Saturday, May 4. Frazier, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts – Applied Media Arts from […]