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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Frazier named Skowhegan resident faculty
Skowhegan announces 2015 faculty, including LaToya Ruby Frazier. Frazier(born 1982, Braddock, Pennsylvania) received her BFA in applied media arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (2004) and her MFA in art photography from Syracuse University (2007). She also studied under the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (2010–2011) and was the Guna S. Mundheim […]
Frazier awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded LaToya Ruby Frazier a Fellowship based on prior achievement and exceptional promise. Successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants. LaToya Ruby Frazier has been described as “an artist on a mission with a prophetic voice” who has a “preternaturally mature body of work,” by The […]
Village Voice Review
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Tenant Farm for the 21st Century The Village Voice By Christian Viveros-Faune Apr 3, 2013 The mother of all Great Depression books, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, grew out of a Time magazine assignment. Accepting it were two young artistes, James Agee and Walker Evans, who agreed to produce a “photographic and verbal record of the […]
New York Times Review
The Flesh and the Asphalt, Both Weak LaToya Ruby Frazier Photography at Brooklyn Museum New York Times Art Review Braddock, Pa., is about nine miles southeast of Pittsburgh, hugging the eastern bank of the Monongahela River. But in the photographs of LaToya Ruby Frazier, who grew up in this steel town, its coordinates are not […]
In Rome Exhibition, a Poem to New York
Empire State Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome April 22 — July 21, 2013 NEW York’s role as the ruling city of the art world has held steady since at least the middle of the 20th century. Next month, a new exhibition about the city’s ever-growing and constantly shifting art scene is opening in the capital of […]
Interview: WBAI Free Speech Radio in NYC
THE UNCRITIC REVIEW Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum entitled “LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital” — April 21 2013 James Krivo, WBAI There is an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum entitled “LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital”.The exhibit will be on view until August 11 , and on June 27 at 7 PM there will […]
American Icons: Migrant Mother
American Icons: Migrant Mother Studio 360 Radio Series Charlie Herman April 19, 2013 “Migrant Mother” was one of thousands of pictures Dorothea Lange took on assignment for the federal government, documenting the poverty of the Dust Bowl. Before it had that iconic title, the 1936 photo was captioned “Destitute peapickers in California.” But this was […]
Kirsten O’Regan: These Dark Histories
Kirsten O’Regan: These Dark Histories Guernica, a magazine of art & politics April 17, 2013 LaToya Ruby Frazier does not particularly love journalists, despite the fact that her photographs perform an almost journalistic function. Over the past decade, Frazier has recorded the parallel decline of her family’s health and the unraveling social fabric of her […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Still Hauntings
Review: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Still Hauntings Isaiah Matthew Wooden Huffington Post April 1, 2013 In 2008, photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier learned that her mother and Grandma Ruby, like many of the elder women in her hometown of Braddock, PA, had cancer. The information prompted Frazier and her mother, with whom she frequently […]
Family Life In A Forgotten Industrial Town
LaToya Ruby Frazier Photographs: ‘A Haunted Capital’ Captures Family Life In A Forgotten Industrial Town Huffington Post Huffpost Arts & Culture March 24, 2013 LaToya Ruby Frazier has fierce ties to her roots. The artist grew up in Braddock, Pennsylvania — the site of one of America’s first steel mills. In a new show at […]
Fighting to save a family in a dying steel town
Fighting to save a family in a dying steel town Raymond McCrea Jones CNN Photos March 22, 2013 LaToya Ruby Frazier describes her work as “blurring the line between self-portraiture and social documentary.” Her method of collaborating with the people she photographs, often her family, as well as voluntarily becoming the subject herself, is readily […]
A Poem to New York
In Rome Exhibition, a Poem to New York The New York Times Ted Loos March 20, 2013 NEW York’s role as the ruling city of the art world has held steady since at least the middle of the 20th century. Next month, a new exhibition about the city’s ever-growing and constantly shifting art scene is […]