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.
Read more • Watch LaToya's talk on TED.com
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…
Whitney Museum artist profile
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photographs cover three bodies of work that revolve around her hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania. The working-class suburb of Pittsburgh thrived in the first half of the twentieth century as home to a large Andrew Carnegie–owned steel mill. With the collapse of the steel industry in the 1970s, however, Braddock entered a long and ongoing […]
When the Personal Turns Political
When the Personal Turns Political: LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Whitney Biennial Time Magazine Lightbox Paul Moakley February 29, 2012 From the outset of her career as a young artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier has always found inspiration at home. In thoughtfully constructed black and white photographs she began, in her teens, to document herself […]
NYT – Nerves of Steel
LaToya featured in Timely – The New York Times Style Magazine. “If the individuals and families most affected during the Great Depression had photographed themselves instead of being shot by government-commissioned photographers,” asks the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, “what would their own self-representation look like?” More: NYTimes.com
Art21 – New York Close Up
LaToya is a featured artist on Art21’s online documentary series New York Close Up. A New Documentary Series on Art and Life in the City… “LaToya Ruby Frazier Makes Moving Pictures” What makes a documentary radical? In this film, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier reveals the personal story behind a series of videos and photographs of her […]
2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale
Terra Incognita 2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale Oct. 1 — Oct. 30, 2011 Incheon Culture & Arts Center LaToya Ruby Frazier will be among 28 international artists from 13 countries featured in the 2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale. ‘Terra Incognita’, the theme of 2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, is based on the concept of ‘Multiverse’. Multiverse (also […]
The Impact of Kathe Kowalski
Honoring Insight: The Impact of Kathe Kowalski Work by LaToya Ruby Frazier Exhibition at Bruce Gallery Edinboro University of Pennsylvania October 5-27, 2011
Art Educators of NJ
10/3/11 LaToya will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2011 Art Educators of New Jersey Conference.
Honoring Kathe Kowalski
September 19, 2011 Honoring LaToya’s mentor Kathe Kowalski in the New York Times Magazine. LaToya Ruby Frazier with Glenn Beck, Joel Klein, Amar’e Stoudamire and Others Reflect on Their Education – New York Times Magazine, Educational Experiences “Kathe Kowalski was my photography professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. I remember the first moment we met. […]