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 Wins 2022 Carnegie International’s Top Prize
ARTnews Francesca Aton Artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, Malcolm Peacock, and Hyphen— have each won one of the Carnegie International Prizes for their participation in the just-opened 58th edition of the Carnegie International. They were honored at a gala marking the show’s opening at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh on Friday. Frazier was awarded […]
Flint Is Family In Three Acts Community Weekend
Thursday, September 15 through Saturday, September 17, 2022 Stamps Gallery (Ann Arbor) MSU Broad Museum (East Lansing) Flint Institute of Arts Join us for the community weekend of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts, which brings together five years of Frazier’s documentation of and collaboration with Flint residents as they endured the […]
Editorial: Morning at the 58th Carnegie International
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Editorial Board The relativity of time, experience and everything else is the theme of the 58th Carnegie International that opens on Sept. 24 and runs until April 2, 2023. There’s an old Mayan saying that will become more familiar in Pittsburgh in the coming months: “Is it morning for you yet?” It […]
‘Young, Gifted and Black’
1st West Coast Engagement of Survey Traveling Primarily to Colleges and Universities Opens July 28 at UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum A wide-ranging exhibition that highlights artists of African descent whose work explores identity, politics and art history makes its West Coast debut July 28 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of […]
Social Agitators, Joyfully Black: the artistic heirs of Gordon Parks
The Washington Post By Robin Givhan PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. The meditative and affecting art installation in the modest gallery in the unremarkable building includes portraits of a community in crisis but one that’s also defined by determination and care. It’s a photographic story about lead-laced water in Flint, Mich. — a catastrophe unleashed in 2014 by […]
58th Carnegie International announces artists
Trib LiveBy JoAnne Klimovich Harrop “Good morning.” It’s a saying we probably hear daily, but everyone’s “morning” might not be the same. The better question might be “Is it morning for you yet?” a Mayan Kaqchikel expression that is the title of the 58th Carnegie International. Kaqchikel is a language spoken in Guatemala. The exhibit […]
Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier’s exhibit reveals the resilience of the people of Flint, Michigan
WBUR Boston NPR Here & Now By Karen Michel LaToya Ruby Frazier spent five years photographing people and places in Flint, Michigan. Her photos tell a story about a community in struggle, confronting the water crisis and ultimately triumphing through the community. This segment aired on May 2, 2022 Read more… Courtesy of: WBUR Boston
LaToya Ruby Frazier in conversation with Flint artists
VIRTUAL EVENT LaToya Ruby Frazier in conversation with Flint artists and activists Shea S. Cobb and Amber N. Hasan The Gordon Parks Foundation Thursday, April 21, 2022, 6PM ET Moderated by Michal Raz-Russo, Programs Director, The Gordon Parks Foundation CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND WATCH VIA ZOOM The Gordon Parks Foundation is pleased to announce […]
Flint Is Family In Three Acts
The Gordon Parks Foundation Exhibition Announcement April 13 – June 24, 2022 Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a twenty-first-century survey of the American landscape that reveals the persistent segregation and racism that haunts it. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2022) Co-published with The Gordon Parks Foundation Series edited by […]
8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022: Currency
Engaging the theme of Currency from various perspectives, the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg opens on May 20, 2022 with twelve exhibitions presenting over 75 artists. From appraised colonial-era photo albums to poetic reveries, social documentary and conceptual approaches to photography, the exhibitions explore the myriad ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and interpreted. […]
The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize of 2020
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts Co-published by The Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl Series edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. Edited by Michal Raz-Russo Contributions by Leigh Raiford NOW AVAILABLE through Gladstone Gallery (US) and Steidl (EU) LaToya Ruby Frazier is a visual artist known for collaborative storytelling with the people […]
TIME’s 20 Best Photobooks of 2021
TIME LightBox Section TIME Photo Department LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Last Cruze chosen by TIME as one of the best photo books of 2021 The Last Cruze by LaToya Ruby Frazier is an extensive, collaborative body of work that focuses on General Motors autoworkers in Lordstown, Ohio, who are members of the United Auto Workers […]