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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Art Basel
Unlimited: Presenting 76 premier works This year’s edition of Unlimited will consist of 76 large-scale projects, presented by galleries participating in the fair. Curated for the sixth consecutive year by Gianni Jetzer, the sector will feature a wide range of presentations, from historically significant pieces to the latest contemporary works. Renowned as well as emerging […]
LaToya awarded honorary degree from Pratt Institute
On Wednesday, May 17, Pratt Institute degree candidates will gather in their caps and gowns at Radio City Music Hall in the heart of Manhattan, where Pratt Institute’s 128th Commencement will be held. The Institute will celebrate the achievements of more than 1,000 graduating students at the iconic venue and confer their degrees during the ceremony, […]
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation welcomes LaToya as an artist-in-residence
The Rauschenberg Residency is a creative center that welcomes artists of all disciplines from around the world to live, work, and create. The residency is located on Robert Rauschenberg’s former property on Captiva Island, Florida, where he lived and worked for nearly four decades. The facility, which includes the 8,000-square-foot studio Rauschenberg built in 1992 and a collection of historic homes and studio spaces, is infused with beauty and […]
Othering & Belonging Conference
“Right now our work building and sustaining a society centered on inclusion is more essential and urgent than ever.” April 30 – May 2, 2017 Oakland Marriott City Center 1001 Broadway Oakland, CA 94607 Widespread Othering has led to a host of challenges in our world today, including territorial disputes, toxic levels of economic inequality, […]
Downing Pryor Distinguished Visiting Lecturer
LaToya Ruby Frazier April 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Free MCA’s 2017 Downing Pryor Distinguished Visiting Lecturer is LaToya Ruby Frazier, an internationally recognized photographer and a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. Frazier works in photography, video and performance to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, family and communal history. […]
POWER curated by Todd Levin at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
Work By African American Women From The Nineteenth Century To Now Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, is proud to present POWER, an exhibition curated by Todd Levin that surveys the work of African American women artists from the nineteenth century to now. Titled after the 1970 gospel song by Sister Gertrude Morgan, the exhibition begins with […]
Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture
LaToya Ruby Frazier March 23, 2017, 6:00 pm FREE – Seating is limited LaToya Ruby Frazier, a contemporary Chicago-based photographer and the 2017 recipient of the Akron Art Museum’s Knight Purchase Award, will visit Akron to present the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture at the Akron Art Museum. For Frazier, art is a catalyst […]
Musee Magazine Interviews LaToya Ruby Frazier for Women’s History Month
LaToya Ruby Frazier A Lived Experience Describing a picture of yours from A Haunted Capital, you said that you watched The Cosby Show as a kid in order to escape the reality of your dismantled working-class family. When did you come to terms with the truth and what led you to embrace and document it? […]
LaToya speaking at SPE
“The Notion of Family” Thursday, March 09, 2017 Guest Speaker LaToya Ruby Frazier at 7:00pm – Orange Ballroom Book signing at 8:00pm – Orange Foyer In this talk, LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses how she has used photography to fight injustice—poverty, healthcare and gender inequality, environmental contamination, racism, and more—and create a more representative self-portrait. Drawing […]
Exhibition at Caracas Belgium
LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982, USA) continues to show the representation of the working classes, a tradition begun in the 1930s by the likes of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks, in her latest exhibition Et des terrils un arbre s’elevera (And a tree grew up from the coal tips). Her political commitment and her […]
Carrying the Legacies of Documentary Photographer Icons
Lomography Magazine on LaToya Ruby Frazier’s recent exhibition at the Musée des Arts Contemporains, Le Grand Hornu in Brussels. “The recent history of Braddock, a district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been plagued with issues of unemployment surges, poverty, demographic migration, disease outbreaks, hospital closures, drug use in the countryside. It is referenced to the lower part […]
Musée des Arts Contemporains
LaToya Ruby Frazier, And From The Coaltips A Tree Will Rise Outraged by the closure of Braddock’s only hospital in 2010 and by the following use of this “ghost town” as the setting for jeans commercial, LaToya Ruby Frazier became increasingly more activist and conjointly condemned the cynical abandon of her city by public powers […]