Celebrating Gordon Parks!
Schedule
Sat Nov 09 2024 at 12:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Shaffer Art Bldg, Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13244 | Syracuse, NY
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Join us for a day of programming celebrating Gordon Parks, the prominent photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director whose photography is currently on view at the Museum in “Homeward to the Prairie I Come: Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art," generously sponsored by Art Bridges. Spend the day learning about Gordon Parks through the exhibition and accompanying family guide, browse vintage books and albums from local vendor Black Citizens Brigade, and make a zine with artist and educator Evan Starling Davis. Join us for an artist talk by contemporary photographer Jarod Lew, and then stay for a screening of “A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks” (2021).
Schedule of Events:
Community Arts Fair
Noon – 5 p.m.
Shaffer Art Building Galleria
Black Citizens Brigade
Pop Up featuring a selection of vintage books, magazines, and records highlighting the work of Gordon Parks and his contemporaries
Evan Starling Davis
Zine making with Syracuse artist and educator
Artist Talk: Jarod Lew
1 p.m.
Jarod Lew is an an artist who draws on photography to explore intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement, and postmemory. Through this exploration, his work contends with the performativity of race and its instability as a locus of meaning.
Film Screening: A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
2:30 p.m.
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
This documentary explores the power of images in advancing racial, economic and social equality as seen through the work of trailblazing photographer Gordon Parks.
TV-MA | Documentaries | 1 HR 29 MIN | 2021
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Where is it happening?
Shaffer Art Bldg, Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13244Event Location & Nearby Stays:
