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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Haunted: Q&A with LaToya Ruby Frazier
Haunted: Q&A with LaToya Ruby Frazier Art In America Greg Lindquist March 19, 2013 “A Haunted Capital,” LaToya Ruby Frazier’s first New York solo exhibition, opens Mar. 22 at the Brooklyn Museum. Frazier’s work, addressing her hometown of Braddock, Pa., near Pittsburgh, has taken many forms as she has moved from photography to performance, documentary […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital
Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital March 22–August 11, 2013 Mezzanine Gallery, 2nd Floor LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital uses social documentary and portraiture to create a personal visual history of an industrial town’s decline. Through approximately 40 photographic works of her family and their hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier offers an […]
Art 21 New York Close Up
“LaToya Ruby Frazier Makes Moving Pictures” “New York Close Up” on Art21 Premiered February 2, 2012 LaToya Ruby Frazier Makes Moving Pictures | “New York Close Up” | Art21 from Art21 on Vimeo.
LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s
“LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s” “New York Close Up” on Art21 Premiered June 17 2011 LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s | “New York Close Up” | Art21 from Art21 on Vimeo.
Self Portrait (United States Steel)
Self Portrait (United States Steel), 2010 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Sound, 3:28 Minutes
DETOX (Braddock U.P.M.C.)
DETOX (Braddock U.P.M.C.), 2011 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Sound, 22:23 minutes
Momme Portrait Series (Wrestle)
Momme Portrait Series (Wrestle), 2009 Digital Transfer to DVD Color, Silent, 58 Seconds
Momme Portrait Series (Heads)
Momme Portrait Series (Heads), 2008 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Silent, 2:05 Minutes
A Mother To Hold
A Mother To Hold, 2006 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Sound, 24:27 Minutes
“Politics & Poetics”
“LaToya Ruby Frazier: Politics & Poetics” Featured on NJTV’s “State of the Arts” Aired: Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 8 pm on NJTV. LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Whitney from PCK Media on Vimeo.
LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Whitney Biennial
NJ Today By Susan Wallner A hot young artist making waves at the current Whitney Biennial, LaToya Ruby Frazier has a laser focus and a committed work ethic. She commutes daily to her job at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers in New Brunswick, where she curates the gallery and teaches photography. […]
“Inheritance” at iMOCA
Inheritance LaToya Ruby Frazier and Tony Buba April 6 — May 19 Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art “iMOCA will celebrate ten years by bringing in artist LaToya Ruby Frazier to curate the most comprehensive display of her work, some of it never seen before, for her exhibit, Inheritance.” Read more…