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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MORE THAN CONQUERORS: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier at Gladstone Gallery
March 2, 2023 – April 15, 2023
Opening reception: March 2, 5pm – 7pm
Gladstone Gallery
530 West 21st Street
New York, NY
Press Release
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s exhibition More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 honors community healthcare workers (CHWs) on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overlooked themselves, Frazier conceived of a worker’s monument to honor CHWs on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic and to honor the leadership, research, and relationships of Dr. Cooper, Dr. Ibe, Dr. Hines, Rev. Hickman and Tiffany Scott who are at the forefront of advocating and impacting policy change in support of community health workers.
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Courtesy of: Gladstone Gallery
LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland, commissioned for the 58th Carnegie International, reconceptualizes what a monument can be.
LaToya Ruby Frazier received the 58th Carnegie Prize for A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland. The Carnegie Prize is a long-running tradition at Carnegie Museum of Art, as old as the Carnegie International itself. It has been awarded to one artwork in each iteration of the Carnegie International since 1896.
Born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, and based in Chicago, Frazier uses photography to tell the stories of community health workers in Baltimore during the pandemic. Stemming from workshops as part of a participatory research study led by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Frazier’s installation centers health workers and their voices.
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Courtesy of: Carnegie Museum of Art
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