"Meet the Artist" with Brian Arnold

On Thursday, April 3, we welcome Brian Arnold to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Arnold will be talking about a recent, major transition in his work. For over a decade, he developed several major projects in Indonesia – working as a photographer, writer, and curator – and he is now trying to develop similar projects in the Western Balkans. Arnold’s talk will focus on his interests in cross-cultural connections and collaborations and how this manifests in his work as both a photographer and writer. He will also have copies of his most recent book on Indonesia, A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age, as well as zines of his pictures from Indonesia and Serbia, available for sale throughout the evening. This event will be live-streamed on CPW's YouTube page at 6pm.

Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.

Brian Arnold is a photographer, educator, and musician based in Ithaca, NY. He has undergraduate degrees in English and Ethnomusicology from The Colorado College, and an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art. His photographs have been exhibited in China, France, Indonesia, Italy, and the United States, and are included in a number of important museum and library collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the library at The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the National Gallery of Australia, the Indonesian Visual Arts Archive, and Light Work in Syracuse, NY. He has received a number of important grants and residencies, most recently from the Marko Marculic Foundation, MacDowell, the Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies. Brian has taught and lectured about photography at a number of prestigious institutions in the United States and abroad – including at Cornell University; the School of Art and Design at Alfred University; Massachusetts College of Art; the Santa Reparata International College of Art in Florence, Italy, Pasundan University in Bandung, West Java; the Institute of Technology in Bandung; the University of Indonesia; the Indonesian Institute of Art, Yogyakarta; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the School for International Training, the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia; and the Beijing Film Academy.

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