Learning from Gordon Parks

Name: Learning from Gordon Parks
Start: 2024-11-07T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-07T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Mulvane Art Museum

Schedule

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Mulvane Art Museum | Topeka, KS

Join photographer Ann Dean for a talk about the work of iconic African American author, photographer, and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Dean will discuss the impact and inspiration in his books The Learning Tree, A Choice of Weapons, and Half Past Autumn. They illustrate Parks’s mother’s teachings centered in love, dignity, and hard work, and provide a starting point to talk about his struggles, choices, and triumphs– all great life lessons for those searching to find their way in this complicated world.
Image above: Gordon Parks, "Sunday Morning," 1950, photograph, Mulvane Art Museum permanent collection.
Support for this event is provided by the Kansas Arts Commission.