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Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Presented by Akron Art Museum at Akron Art Museum, Akron OH

Mar 23 2017
Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture: LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier, a contemporary Chicago-based photographer and the 2017 recipient of the Akron Art Museum’s Knight Purchase Award, will visit Akron to present the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture at the Akron Art Museum.

FREE • Seating is limited

LaToya Ruby Frazier, a contemporary Chicago-based photographer and the 2017 recipient of the Akron Art Museum’s Knight Purchase Award, will visit Akron to present the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture at the Akron Art Museum.

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For Frazier, art is a catalyst for social justice. Her photographs and videos document America today: post-industrial cities riven by poverty, racism, healthcare inequality and environmental toxicity. Bridging personal realities with broader social issues, her haunting artworks amplify the voices of the most vulnerable and transform our sense of place and self. Frazier’s first book, The Notion of Family, received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award. Frazier has received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally.

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  • LaToya Ruby Frazier is the only photographer among the 24 winners of the 2015
    MacArthur Fellow Program by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
    “I’m overjoyed to receive this award because often, when you’re a young black woman
    talking about inequality, people don’t take you seriously,” [Frazier] says. “It’s validation to
    my work being a testimony and a fight for social justice and cultural change.”

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Akron Art Museum

1 South High, Akron, OH 44308

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Members park free in the deck adjacent to the library
Park across from museum entrance on High Street
Fully handicap accessible
Standard strollers welcome in most areas

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