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Red Summer on The FENCE 2018

Work from the Red Summer project will be included in The FENCE 2018 exhibition.

Longview TX July 10, 1919. The Dallas Express, Dallas TX. July 19, 1919

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Spring Exhibits & Events

Spring Exhibits & Events

Manifest exhibition continues at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, TX. The postponed Lunch event has been reschedule for April 12, 2018. Feb 1 through May 6, 2018.

  Prints from the Schools for the Colored portfolio and works by artist Tya Alisa Anthonywill be included in the upcoming two-person exhibition “Segregated Influences” at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Opening reception…

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Manifest at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio

Manifest at Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX

I will be visiting San Antonio, TX this week for events at Blue Star Contemporary and Trinity University. The Manifest exhibition opened February, 2018. Thursday I will lead a lunchtime gallery talk about my work and the project. 

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Red Summer and Manifest at Duke University

Red Summer and Manifest at Duke University @CDS.Duke @DukeADA @CDSDuke #photography

Manifest exhibition at the Archive of Documentary Arts, Rubenstein Library, Duke University February 17 to June 3, 2018 Location: Rubenstein Photography Gallery Artist talk and reception at the Center for Documentary Studies, Feb 21, 2018 – 6:00 p.m.

Red Summer exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University February 21 to June 2, 2018  Location: Lyndhurst Gallery

There…

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Manifest Exhibition at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio

Images from the Manifest portfolio are exhibited at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, Feb 1 – May 6, 2018. I will be at Blue Star for various events on March 22, 2018.

Stained Glass Shard, 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL. NMAAHC, Washington DC

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Manifest on HyperAllergic

Special thanks to Amy Brummer, the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) and the Paul Robeson House for making these new works and the projection project a reality. The project was made possible with the support of the Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residency. Ilene Dube has a recent article on HyperAllergicabout the Manifest / Robeson House project and the ACP exhibition, “Reconstructed History” (including…

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Paul Robeson House Project, Princeton, NJ A collaborative project supported by the Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence, the Arts Council of Princeton, and the Paul Robeson House. These artifacts were removed from the Robeson House, photographed, and projected back onto the structure. Projections each evening Oct 20 - Nov 25, 2017.

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Manifest Portfolio in Southern Cultures

#Manifest in Southern Cultures Journal

 Selected images from the Manifest Portfolio appear in the current issue of Southern Cultures from the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC Press. Thanks to Ayse Erginer, Emily Wallace, Emma Calabrese, and Lisa McCarty.

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Two Projects at Arts Council of Princeton, NJ

Manifest: Robeson House at Arts Council of Princeton, NJ

Exhibition begins Oct 20, Lecture Nov 9 at 7pm Images of objects from the Robeson House will be projected onto the side wall of the house each evening beginning at dusk. Selected prints from the project are on display at ACP’s Solley Theater Lobby. These works were created with support from the 2017 Anne Reeves Artist Residency. The lecture and presentation for this exhibition will be Nov 9, 7pm…

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Looking forward to the conference, lecture, and exhibition! #redsummer #schoolsforthecolored

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Haunted Places: The Veil of Race in the American Landscape

Haunted Places: The Veil of Race in the American Landscape

Currently, selected works from two projects, Red Summer and Schools for the Colored, are joined for the exhibition Haunted Places: The Veil of Race in the American Landscape at the Heuser Art Gallery of Bradley University. On October 13, 2017 at 5:30pm I will deliver the Bunn Lectureship in Photography at Bradley University which is also included as part of the programming for Midwest conference…

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Houston Race Riot 1917 #CampLogan

On August 23, 1917 black soldiers stationed at Camp Logan, in Houston, TX became embroiled in a deadly riot with local police and white civilians who still did not recognize their military service as a basis for equal rights in Jim Crow America. The plaque, posted near the site where the soldiers were stationed (one of the few such recognitions of the black civil rights struggle at the beginning…

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#RedSummer #Chicago July, 27, 1919 #raceriot

#RedSummer #Chicago July, 27, 1919 #raceriot

A plaque near this location reads: “Sunday July 27, 1919 a group of boys rafting on Lake Michigan drifted over an invisible racial barrier. Rocks were thrown from the breakwater and Eugene Williams was struck. His drowning sparked a week-long race riot that resulted in scores of deaths and injuries.”

Chicago, IL July 27 – Aug 3, 1919. Fort Wayne News & Sentinel (IN) July 29, 1919

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Norfolk, VA. July 21, 1919 #redsummer #raceriots

On July 21, 1919 a riot began in Norfolk, VA during the beginning of welcome home celebrations for black soldiers.

Norfolk, VA. July 21, 1919. The New York Times, July 22, 1919.

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Longview, TX - July 10, 1919 #redsummer

Longview, TX – July 10, 1919 #redsummer

On July 10, 1919 a race riot occurred in Longview, TX. The Dallas Express newspaper described the event as “The Great Battle of Longview, Texas.” The Texas Rangers were brought in to restore order.

Longview TX July 10, 1919. The Dallas Express, Dallas TX. July 19, 1919″ (2016)

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New for the Manifest Portfolio

New for the Manifest Portfolio

New images are coming to the #Manifest portfolio in the near future…

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Tulsa, OK 2016 - May 31, 1921 #redsummer

Tulsa, OK 2016 – May 31, 1921 #redsummer

Tulsa, on May 31, 1921 was among the most deadly and destructive “race riots” (ethnic purges) in American history. As part of the Red Summer project, I also photographed places of racial conflict during the post World War I era between 1917 and 1923. Tulsa stands out because of the great social and economic advancement of Tulsa’s black community (before the purge) and for being one of the many…

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