Arts and Performance
Celebrating Gordon Parks
November 9, 2024 at 12:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Syracuse University Art Museum
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
Zine making with Syracuse artist and educator
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.
TV-MA | Documentaries | 1 HR 29 MIN | 2021
This event was first published on October 1, 2024 and last updated on October 14, 2024.
Event Details
- Category
- Arts and Performance
- Type
- Open Houses
- Region
- Campus
- Open to
- Public
- Cost
- Free
- Organizer
- Syracuse University Art Museum
- Contact
- Syracuse University Art Museum
suart@syr.edu
+1.315.443.4097
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- Contact Syracuse University Art Museum to request accommodations