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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Visiting Artist Lecture at Lesley University
The College of Art and Design at Lesley University is pleased to have LaToya Ruby Frazier as part of the Strauch-Mosse Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more… Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017 7:00 pm University Hall Amphitheater, Room 2-150 1815 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02140
A Black Woman, Steel Worker, and Artist […]
The New Yorker October 31, 2017 by Doreen St. Félix The photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier can capture the decline of an entire economy, the vulnerable cycles of American industry, within a single human face. Like the documentarians Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks before her, she scales down social upheaval to the intimate, modest scale of […]
Review: “Picture Industry” at Bard College
Art In America November 1, 2017 by Ariel Goldberg “Picture Industry,” curated by artist Walead Beshty for Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art, champions multimedia art, periodicals, and moving images that theorize the medium of photography. The walls of the entrance to the exhibition are alight with projections of digitally transferred silent films from the […]
The Matter of Black Life: A Conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier works in photography, video, and performance to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, and family and communal history. She is a recipient of both the MacArthur Fellowship (2015) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), and is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art […]
Visiting Artist Lecture at the University of Florida
The School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida is proud to present visiting artist LaToya Ruby Frazier on October 24, 2017, at 6 p.m. in Little Hall, Room 101 (LIT 101). The Fall 2017 Visiting Artists Lecture Series is free and open to the public. The lectures offer the community an […]
Being Modern: MoMA in Paris
From 10 October, the Fondation Louis Vuitton is hosting a remarkable new exhibition to present works from New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The display—Being Modern: MoMA in Paris—will house artwork that has been acquired by the prestigious institution since its founding in 1929. […] ‘It’s a unique opportunity to tell the story of […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier at Tyler School of Art
Please join us for the 2nd Annual Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture featuring Photographer and Video Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. Using photography, video, and performance to document her hometown of Braddock, PA, her work addresses issues of industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, and family and communal history. Read more… Tue, October 10, 2017 […]
Art & Empathy: Storytelling for Social Change
An evening with artist, scholar, and TED Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier In today’s America, mass media dictates the dominant narrative, often silencing vulnerable communities and perspectives. Artist, scholar, activist and TED Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses how individuals and communities can collaborate on a grassroots level to amplify marginalized voices and come together with renewed […]
Ways of viewing the social landscape at Pier 24 Photography
The Grain of the Present at the nonprofit foundation Pier 24 Photography gives us new insights into the continued vitality of a certain way of working in the medium, and some of the most important photographers of the past 50 years are represented by astute selections of their work. On view through Jan. 31, the […]
Montreal’s Momenta focuses on fact and illusion in photography
By Robert Everett-Green Courtesy of The Globe and Mail Photography in its projected form is a prime public art in Montreal, and often a monumental one. It is less clear how devoted the city is to photography as an interior gallery art. “While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.” Lewis Hine’s comment from the depth of […]
The Notion of Family at Silver Eye Center for Photography
Silver Eye presents a selection of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s seminal series The Notion of Family at it’s new Penn Avenue gallery. Frazier’s images explore the painful effects of decades of industrial decline, poverty, and systemic racism in her hometown of Braddock, PA. A working class town situated on the bank of the Monongahela River, Braddock’s […]
On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford
Silver Eye Center for Photography presents LaToya Ruby Frazier’s On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford at the August Wilson Center’s BNY Mellon Gallery. On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford is a collaborative exhibition that explores the work and life of artist Sandra Gould Ford, whom Frazier first met in 2015 […]