Wednesday, January 30th from 5-7pm experience the opening reception of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family at the Frost Art Museum. Photographer and MacArthur Fellow, LaToya Ruby Frazier, explores Flint, Michigan’s water crisis and the effects on its residents. Frazier spent five months with three generations of women – the poet Shea Cobb, Shea’s mother, Renée Cobb, and her daughter, Zion – living in Flint in 2016 witnessing their day to day lives as they endured one of the most devastating man-made ecological crises in US history. Citing Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison’s 1948 collaboration Harlem is Nowhere as an influence, Frazier utilized mass media as an outlet to reach a broad audience, publishing her images of Flint in conjunction with a special feature on the water crisis in Elle magazine in September 2016. Like Parks, Frazier uses the cameras as a weapon and agent of social change. This exhibition is on view from Wednesday, January 30, 2019 — Sunday, April 14, 2019. This event is free and open to the public. Metered parking is available in the Blue and Gold Garages. RSVP here.
The exhibition is part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Exhibition Series, which addresses issues of race, diversity, social justice, civil rights, and humanity to serve as a catalyst for dialogue and to enrich our community with new perspectives.
Image caption: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Shea doing crochet braids in her cousin Andrea’s hair for Andrea’s daughter’s wedding, 2016 / 2017, Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 inches, All images courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York / Rome.
