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.
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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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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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.
LaToya Ruby Frazier in Conversation with Flint Artists and Activists Shea S. Cobb and Amber N. Hasan Moderated by Michal Raz-Russo, Programs Director, The Gordon Parks Foundation
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Shea S. Cobb, and Amber N. Hasan
This conversation was hosted in conjunction with the publication of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family in Three Acts—the inaugural recipient of The Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Priz—and the opening of its accompanying exhibition at the Gordon Parks Foundation Gallery. Flint Is Family In Three Acts chronicles the ongoing man-made water crisis in Flint, Michigan, from the perspective of those who live and fight for their right to access free, clean water. Featuring photographs, texts, poems, and interviews made in collaboration with Flint community members, this body of work serves as an intervention and alternative to mass-media accounts of this political, economic, and racial injustice.
Frazier first traveled to Flint in 2016, as part of an Elle magazine commission to do a photo essay about the water crisis there. During that trip she met Shea S. Cobb, a Flint poet, activist, and mother; and Amber N. Hasan, a mother, hip-hop artist, herbalist, and community organizer, who developed a collaborative creative sisterhood with Frazier. Divided into three acts, Flint Is Family follows Cobb as she fights for her family’s and community’s health and well-being. Spurred by the lack of mass-media interest in the impact of this ongoing crisis, Frazier’s approach ensures that the lives and voices of Flint’s residents are seen and heard, and that their collective creative endeavors provide a solution to this man-made water crisis. Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a twenty-first-century survey of the American landscape that reveals the persistent segregation and racism that haunts it. In equal measure, it is also a story of a community’s strength, pride, and resilience in the face of an ongoing crisis. The exhibition features photographs from Act II and Act III of Flint Is Family In Three Acts, texts by Flint community members, as well as a video Frazier made to accompany the September 2016 Elle article.
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