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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LaToya Ruby Frazier at Gladstone Gallery
More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 March 2, 2023 – April 15, 2023 Opening reception: March 2, 5pm – 7pm Gladstone Gallery530 West 21st Street New York, NYPress Release Gladstone is pleased to announce its first exhibition with LaToya Ruby Frazier. The show presents the artist’s most recent […]
NYC-ARTS: Noguchi Museum & LaToya Ruby Frazier
A visit to the Noguchi Museum in Queens to explore the legacy of world-renowned sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. Then a profile of photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose work follows in the social documentary tradition of Walker Evans and Gordon Parks. Courtesy of: NYC-ARTS.org Aired: 2/23/2023 on Thirteen|WNET New York Public Media
Trinity Talks: Art as a Medium for Change
Visual art is a doorway to new insights and revelations. It can challenge the expected narrative and transform our way of perceiving and understanding, if even for a moment. Join Trinity as we welcome artists who invite us to see our relationships, culture, and environment in a new way—calling us to respond and take part […]
Carnegie Museum of Art’s somber 58th International is brightened by compassion, breadth, humanitarian spirit
Cleveland.com By Steven Litt PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — It’s big, it’s sprawling, it’s relentless, and at times, it’s vexing, gross, disturbing, and tiresome in the often anti-American politics espoused by its artists. Forget all of that. Go and see the 58th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The show’s flaws and shortcomings are more […]
10 Artists Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
CULTURED By Annie Lyall Slaughter In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., CULTURED spotlights ten artists whose artistic mission, ethos, and messaging align with the spirit of activism, hope, and liberation put forth by the civil rights leader. […] LaToya Ruby Frazier Chicago-based artist LaToya Ruby Frazier has committed her life’s work to documenting and […]
How These Contemporary Artists Are Redefining Family and Kinship
Smithsonian Magazine By Shantay Robinson Explore the enduring bonds and intimacies of modern love at the National Portrait Gallery In the self-portrait, the artist is holding their baby behind a screen door; in their eyes is a look of intense love, and their tender embrace of the child is deeply moving. The 2018 photograph by […]
The Ten Best Photography Books of 2022
Smithsonian Magazine Donny Bajohr, Jeff Campagna and Quentin Nardi Our favorite titles this year invite viewers to worlds outside their own As photo editors at Smithsonian magazine, one thing we really love about photography is that through this medium, freely extended to us, is a most extraordinary invitation—a front-row seat into a world we never […]
‘Kinship’ at the National Portrait Gallery looks at all the ways we are connected
Andscape By Lonnae O’Neal Artists offer a counterbalance to mainstream conceptions of family Kinship, a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, explores the complexities of how people connect. And much like the notion of kinship itself, familial or fictive or forged, what we find are multilayered stories of togetherness. The exhibit is […]
Acquisition: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s “The Notion of Family” Series
National Gallery of Art Press Release LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982) employs her photography to call attention to economic, environmental, and racial inequalities, from the clean water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to the closing of the major auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired seven prints from her landmark […]
Captivating Views of Community Health Workers
HUB Johns Hopkins University Award-winning photo series was inspired by the work of Johns Hopkins physician-researcher Lisa Cooper, her colleagues, and the community health workers who supported and served Baltimore neighborhoods during the pandemic Lisa Cooper, Founder of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, met LaToya Ruby Frazier in 2015 at The Contemporary, a […]
Darkness to light: FIA features eye-opening exhibit ‘Flint Is Family In Three Acts’
Flint Side By Qiana Towns FLINT, Michigan — The first act of the multi-part art exhibition, Flint Is Family In Three Acts, expands on nearly five years of the Flint Water Crisis, and is currently on display at the Flint Institute of Arts (FIA). The Flint Is Family installation features photographs, videos, and text that […]
8 Standout Artists at the 58th Carnegie International
Artsy Tara Fay Coleman The Carnegie International, the longest-running North American presentation of international art, opened its 58th edition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 24th. Featuring work by over 100 artists and collectives, the 2022 iteration of the International necessitated not only a Pittsburgh-based curatorial team, but a broader […]