news from LaToya Ruby Frazier
Posted on | June 18, 2009 | No Comments
Check out a really great recent interview with the Morning News in which Frazier talks about her seven-year collaboration with her Grandma Ruby and Mom in Braddock, PA (a town that was featured in this New York Times article). I’m especially excited to read—obviously—that she’s working on a book and publishers are interested. Somebody certainly better pick up this title!
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_notion_of_family/
Also, it’s so interesting to see that artists like Frazier, Mickalene Thomas, and Hank Willis Thomas are all working in collaboration with their mothers; of the 3 only Hank’s mom was an artist herself before working with her son, I think. A completely different spin on “family photographs, no?”
This Sunday from Noon – 5pm there are community events along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
My mother and I have 2 new videos included in the group show Living and Dreaming Aim 29 in the Bronx Museum.
Please come celebrate the Bronx Museum, the Grand Concourse and 36 amazing artists Living and Dreaming!
http://www.bronxmuseum.org/living.html
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JOIN US FOR OUR OPEN HOUSE AND STREET FAIR! |
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Sunday, June 21, 2009 12 noon – 5pm
Start your summer with a stroll down the Grand Concourse. Eat great food, shop from our local artisans, and share your photos and memories for our oral history project. Then enter the museum to see cutting-edge work by the 36 artists in our Artist in the Marketplace exhibition curated by Micaela Giovannotti.
AIM is generously supported by the Jerome Foundation, Helena Rubinstein Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Dedalus Foundation, and The Open House and Street Fair is made possible by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. Tree Museum is a collaborative project by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill, and the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. This art project was created with support from The Greenwall Foundation’s Oscar M. Reubhausen Commission. Marketing activities are generously supported by Deutsche Bank and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100 is made possible by the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation; Council for Cultural Affairs, R.O.C., in collaboration with Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; Paul and Klara Porzelt Foundation; U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services; New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and Kodak. The Bronx Museum of the Arts receives ongoing general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with the cooperation of the Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and the Bronx Delegation of the New York City Council; Ford Foundation; Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; Bronx Delegation of the New York State Assembly; New York Times Company Foundation; and private sources.
For more information about The Bronx Museum of the Arts events, visit http://www.bronxmuseum.org The Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx, New York 10456 tel/ 718.681.6000 fax/ 718.681.6181
Getting to The Bronx Museum of the Arts Subway: Take the D or B to the 167 Street / Grand Concourse station. Exit at rear of station, walk south along Grand Concourse two blocks. 4 to the 161 Street / Yankee Stadium station. Walk east three blocks to the Grand Concourse, then, walk north four blocks along Grand Concourse to 165th Street.
Bus: Take the Bx1, Bx2, or BxM4 Express to 165th St. and Grand Concourse.
Museum Hours |
Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, from 11 – 6 pm. Friday from 11 – 8 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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