Celebrating Gordon Parks

 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.”

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). Generously sponsored by Art Bridges.

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
  Join the Syracuse University Art Museum and artist/educator Evan Starling-Davis for a zine-making workshop! You’ll create your own 8-page zine (or booklet) based on your own personal photographs and archival and found images and text. The open workshop runs from 12-5 pm, during the Museum’s Celebrating Gordon Parks event. Please expect to spend at least 1.5 hours (90 minutes) creating your zine.
  Register here!

Art Break: Artist Talk with photographer Jarod Lew
1 p.m.
Syracuse University Art Museum

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.