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VISIT OF RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER STEPHEN MARC |
| Africana Studies at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce the visit and exhibition of works of renowned photographer, Stephen Marc, who is Professor of Art in the Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University, Tempe. Stephen Marc is the recipient of the Betty and Jim Kasson Award at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California and received the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship at the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1996, the Seagram's African-American Perspectives Commission Award in 1995, and the Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography, from Arts Midwest in 1991. He has published The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience, on Street Life and Culture in Ghana, Jamaica, England, and the United States, published by the Department of Photography at Columbia College in Chicago and distributed by the University of Illinois Press (1992), and Urban Notions in 1983, a self published book containing a 32 photograph series on African-American life in the Midwest by Ataraxia Press. His photography has been featured in EXPOSURE (SPE journal), "African American Storytelling in Photography," Vol. 35:2 (2002) and in CAMERA ARTS, April/May, 2000. Mr. Marc has had residencies at the University of Cincinnati, at Jamestown Community College-Cattaragus County, Olean, NY, at Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, at the CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, and at the City 2000 Commission, a documentary project funded by the Corner Foundation, Chicago, IL. His works have been exhibited at the 7th International Fototage exhibition, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany; at the University of Cincinnati, Reed Gallery, DAAP Complex; at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport Gallery, exhibit for the ASALH conference in 2005; at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, IN; at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Delray Beach, FL; at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Bayou Building; at Collaborative Communities, Dept. of Art Gallery, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; at the Photo Passage at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada; at the First to See the Light exhibition, Quay School of Art Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand; at the Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art; at the Art and Culture Center, downstairs galleries, Hollywood, FL; at the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, Charles E. Culpeper Gallery, New York City; and at the Chicago in the Year 2000 exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Mr. Marc's photographic genius is well documented in his work especially on the Underground Railroad. Stephen Marc will be exhibiting his work and speaking at the INTEGRATED LEARNING CENTER, ROOM 130, on the University of Arizona campus, (1500 E. University Blvd.) on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Africana Studies at the University of
Arizona at 621-5665. |
The University of Arizona,
Learning Services Building Rm. 223
1512 E. First Street
P.O. Box 210105
Tucson, AZ 85721-0105
phone 520/621-5665
fax 520/621-9768
jkunnie@email.arizona.edu