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The Art of Photography at Millennium Arts Salon
Washington, DC

Exhibition: Now Through February 28, 2008
Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm and by appointment (Free)


Photographers: Denee Barr, Barbara Blanco, Michael Platt, Hank Ferrand, Adrienne Mills, Michael Parker, Jonathan French

Salon Talk and Book Signing with Dr. Deborah Willis
Saturday, February 2, 2008 from 6-8pm
www.millenniumartssalon.org
(202) 319-8988
$

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Deborah Willis, Ph.D
New York University
Photography & Imaging
University Professor and Chair

Biography


Deb Willis has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, as well as the 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Exhibitions of her work include: A Sense of Place, Frick, University of Pittsburgh, 2005; Regarding Beauty, University of Wisconsin, 2003; Embracing Eatonville, Light Works, Syracuse, NY, 2003-4; HairStories, Scottsdale Contemporary Art Museum, Scottsdale, AZ 2003-4; The Comforts of Home, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 1999; Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, 1999; Memorable Histories and Historic Memories, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1998; Cultural Baggage, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1995. Her curated Exhibitions include: Engulfed by Katrina: Photographs before and After the Storm, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and Imagining Families—Images and Voices and Reflections in Black. Other notable projects include The Black Female Body A Photographic History with Carla Williams (Temple University Press, Philadephia, 2002); A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition (Amistad Press, 2003); Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton); Visual Journal: Photography in Harlem and DC in the Thirties and Forties (Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1996); Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (The New Press, New York, NY, 1994); and VANDERZEE: The Portraits of James VanDerZee (Harry Abrams Publishing, New York, NY, 1993).

Denee Barr Art News and More

I work in the medium of photography and whether I translate my work via traditional darkroom or digital methods I have skill in the visual dynamic via any method conceived, captured and presented by me. Dark room chemistry vs. electronic chips their just tools. Makes no difference to me what tools I have available to work with for I decide the evolution of my artwork just like artists working in other mediums.


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The Art of Photography Exhibition at Millennium Arts Salon
Denee Barr, Barbara Blanco, Hank Ferrand, Adrienne Mills, Jonathan French, Adrienne Mills, Michael Parker, and Michael Platt
Millennium Arts Salon (MAS) in Washington, DC
www.millenniumartssalon.org
(202) 319-8898

January 12

Exhibition: The Art of Photography, featuring local Washington-Baltimore artists and photographers. On View, Saturdays Jan 12 through Feb 29,
1-5pm or by appointment (FREE)
Artists Talk, The Art of Photography exhibition
(5-7 p.m. FREE)

Feb 2
Scholars Speak: Dr. Deborah Willis, The Art of Photography (6-8 p.m.)
Deborah Willis is Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and a historian of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Dr. Willis’ salon talk provides insights on photography as an art form and comments on the exhibition on view at MAS.