What the Art World Can Learn From Women’s Basketball
"I met LaToya through the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2023, the year that I was honored at their gala. In my remarks, I talked about how I was motivated to follow Parks’s example in using art and storytelling to bring visibility to the WNBA. That resonated with LaToya because she is a former basketball player and has always wanted to tell their stories. When we met, we quickly discovered our shared passion for basketball and uplifting women athletes." —Clara Wu Tsai, New York Liberty Owner
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Life Stories with LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier Interview From HBO’s “A Choice of Weapons Inspired by Gordon Parks”
Life Stories
Individual Lives. Creative Impact.
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, Rust Belt revitalization, environmental justice, access to healthcare, access to clean water, Workers’ Rights, Human Rights, family, and communal history. Frazier’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions in the US and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Carré d’Art – musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France; The Frost Art Museum, Miami; The Musée d’art Moderne, Luxembourg; and The Newcomb Museum at Tulane University, New Orleans. In 2015, her first book The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2014) about how her family survived environmental racism in historic steel mill town Braddock Pennsylvania received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award. In 2020, Frazier was named the inaugural recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book prize for her book Flint Is Family In Three Acts about how working-class families survived the man-made water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Brooklyn Museum; Whitney Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and many others. Frazier is the recipient of many honors and awards including fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellows Program (2015), TED Fellows (2015), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2014).
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THE-NEW-SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENT #785
LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors
Featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier and Jessica Holmes, with Madison McCartha
Monday, April 10, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
Visual artist, photographer, and advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier joins Rail Art Editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Madison McCartha.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier Scholars’ Day
The Museum of Modern Art
November 18, 2022
9:30 AM–4:15 PM
Organized by Roxana Marcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator of Photography, and Caitlin Ryan, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art
This event accompanies LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
9:30–9:40 a.m.
Opening statement
Roxana Marcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator of Photography, Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography, MoMA
9:40–10:00
Keynote statement
LaToya Ruby Frazier, artist-activist
10:00–11:30
Session I: Black Feminist Worldbuilding
“Speaking to Zion: Photography, Monumentality and LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Black Feminist World-Building”
Presented by Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and inaugural director of the Black Studies Collaboratory
“Black Feminist Practice and the Testimonial Archive in the Work of LaToya Ruby Frazier”
Presented by Terrion Williamson, Associate Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, and director of the Black Midwest Initiative
“From an Intergenerational Perch: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford”
Presented by Emilie Boone, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Roundtable I: Narrative and the Activist Camera
Moderated by Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Associate Curator, Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography, MoMA
Panelists:
Sarah Lewis, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, and Founder, The Vision & Justice Project
Michal Raz-Russo, Programs Director, The Gordon Parks Foundation
Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art
2:00–3:00
Session II: Histories of Deindustrialization
“Denim Destruction: LaToya Ruby Frazier Reveals Latent Labor Histories”
Presented by Delphine Sims, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“Photography at the Factory Gates”
Presented by Benjamin Young, Faculty Associate in Art History, Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
3:00–4:00
Roundtable II: The Political Space of Labor
Moderated by Brent Hayes Edwards, Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and 2021–22 Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence, MoMA
Panelists:
Amber Wiley, Assistant Professor of Art History, Rutgers University
Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
4:00–4:15
Closing conversation
Courtesy of: The Museum of Modern Art