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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LaToya Ruby Frazier Looks Beyond Blue-Collar Stereotypes
Hyperallergic by Laura Raicovich In The Last Cruze, the artist hones in on the vast inequities that persist in US society, as well as the tender relationships that enable survival and persistence in spite of them. CHICAGO In her exhibition, The Last Cruze LaToya Ruby Frazier presents a deep dive into lives of factory workers […]
TED Talk at “We The Future “
A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier 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 […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Puts a Face on the US Labour Crisis
Frieze Magazine by Ian Bourland The artist’s moving portraits of ‘unallocated’ auto workers in Lordstown, Ohio, on view at the Renaissance Society, celebrate the power of unions as job losses hit US manufacturing During the late summer of 2019, some thirty General Motors plants were idled across the US during the strike of 49,000 members […]
Artist’s Lordstown photos are a call to action —
‘The workers are the heroes’ Detroit Free Press by Jamie L. LaReau LaToya Ruby Frazier’s initial encounter with General Motors involved water, not cars. About five years ago, GM was first to complain that corrosion, caused by high levels of chloride in the Flint water, was rusting engine blocks at its Flint Engine Operations. “They […]
Bryan Stevenson’s Moral Clarity
The Wall Street Journal Magazine by Donovan X. Ramsey The human rights lawyer, whose memoir is the basis for the forthcoming film ‘Just Mercy,’ has devoted his life to fighting for the convicted and the condemned. LaToya photographed Bryan Stevenson for the Wall Street Journal’s 2019 Innovators issue. Bryan and LaToya were both recipients of […]
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: GM Plant Closing
Professor David Harvey talks about the work of photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier who documents the news of the Lordstown, Ohio plant closing and the impact it had on the workers, families and community at large. Courtesy of: Democracy at Work
In San Francisco, Wielding Influence (Gently) Through Art
The New York Times by Ted Loos “Soft Power” looks at how creativity helps to shape society. “Soft Power,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through mid-February, epitomizes its era in that it looks self-consciously at the ways in which cultural influence is exerted, with special attention to previously hidden voices. “The title […]
Episode No. 412: LaToya Ruby Frazier
The Modern Art Notes Podcast features LaToya Ruby Frazier. The Renaissance Society in Chicago is showing “LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze.” The exhibition features a new body of work that focuses on the United Auto Workers members at General Motors’s Lordstown, Ohio plant. The facility, which had produced automobiles for over 50 years, was […]
Renaissance Society exhibition shines light on Northeast Ohio working class
Hyde Park Herald by Aaron Gettinger Two days before 50,000 United Automobile Workers (UAW) members went on strike against General Motors over pay and idled plants, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier opened “The Last Cruze” at the Renaissance Society, shining a light on the toll GM’s decision to “un-allocate” a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, has taken […]
‘No One Was Going to Pay Attention’
ARTnews by Claire Voon As GM Auto Workers Strike in Ohio, LaToya Ruby Frazier Debuts Photos of Union Laborers in Chicago Last November, workers at a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, received some fateful news: the automotive company’s chief executive, Mary Barra, had decided to “unallocate” the 53-year-old factory in town, in addition to […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze: Lost Labor
FAD Magazine by Caira Moreira-Brown Visual artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier showcases her collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her photographs, videos, texts, interviews, and performances in her latest exhibition, The Last Cruze at The Renaissance Society in Chicago, IL. The Last Cruze zooms in on Lordstown, Ohio and the automotive union there. Fraizer […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Labor of Love
The photographer’s first Chicago solo show centers on workers at a beleaguered GM factory in Ohio. Chicago Magazine by Jake Malooey Last November, LaToya Ruby Frazier got wind of the kind of news she finds both troubling and creatively motivating. General Motors was planning to close five North American plants in the coming year. The […]