Deb Willis, Jess Ingram Talk @NYPH

Bodies In Question: Deborah Willis & Jessica Ingram
Lecture
Friday, May 14
6:30 - 7:15pm
Get more information at: www.nyphotofestival.com.

Please re-visit our conversation with Jess, by clicking here.

Posing Beauty Review

Read Jennifer Baszile's New York Times review of POSING BEAUTY: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present - researched & edited by artist, educator & curator Deborah Willis. Find it by clicking here.

New orleans Photo Alliance Call for Entries, Juror: Deborah Willis

New Orleans Photo Alliance presents The American Dream
Juror: Deborah Willis
Submission Deadline: December 14, 2009
Opening reception: February 4, 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: February 4 - March 21

What does the American Dream look like? How is it now defined? Has it been realized? The New Orleans Photo Alliance is seeking contemporary photographs that explore these questions and more about The American Dream. Dr. Deborah Willis, chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography, will jury this exhibition. Selected entries will be exhibited in the NOPA Gallery during the months of February and March 2010. They will also be featured and archived in the Alliance’s online gallery and considered for publication in the New Orleans Photo Alliance Best of 2010 Photo Annual. In addition, the juror will award cash prizes.

Find out more by visiting: www.neworleansphotoalliance.org/callEntry.php

Posing Beauty - Curated by Deborah Willis

Posing Beauty

September 1, 2009 – October 18, 2009
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Location:

Gulf + Western, Tisch Windows, and 8th Floor Galleries
721 Broadway at Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003

Find out more at: www.admin.tisch.nyu.edu/object/PosingBeauty.html

Family Affair

Hank Willis Thomas, Sometimes I See Myself in You, 2008, digital C-print, Courtesy of the artist, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and Jack Shainman Gallery

PROGENY: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas

Curated by Kalia Brooks

40 Acres Gallery
Location
3428 3rd Ave
Sacramento, CA, 95816
- through September 5, 2009

Deborah Willis in Conversation with Hank Willis Thomas at Aperture

In case you missed Deborah Willis & Hank Willis Thomas' lecture at Aperture, you can catch it here:

courtesy Aperture, Free Live Streaming Ustream

Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis Conversation Tonight

(via www.aperture.org)

Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis
Conversation

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Join us for an intimate conversation between mother and son about their work, influences, and collaborations. Hank Willis Thomas is one of today's most compelling emerging artists. His first monograph, Pitch Blackness (Aperture), raises complex questions about identity, race, violence, and commodification in contemporary life. Deborah Willis is a photographer, educator, author, and curator. She is currently chair and professor of photography and imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

1968; Then & Now - Opening Reception Tomorrow

Entitled, 1968: Then and Now, this multimedia exhibition explores an era when a multitude of social movements climaxed in discontent with political order, particularly of the United States, that was rooted in domestic racial inequality and imperialist foreign policy. It also reflects on the presence of the memory of this time in our hearts and minds for 40 years. In 2008, our world is saturated with iconic images that reflect upon and draw from 1968. This exhibition combines historical and contemporary images that construct diverse stories about the culture of resistance, beauty, power, and the notion of disenfranchisement.

Artists, photographers and writers in the exhibition include: Emma Amos, Tomie Arai, Derrick Addams, William Cordova, Bruce Davidson, Thulani Davis, Tom Drysdale, Ellen Eisenman, Jessica Ingram, Lorie Novak, Norman Parish, Jolene Rickard, Stephen Shames, Margo Machida, Elaine Mayes, Iris Morales, Paul Owen, Jamel Shabazz, Hong-An Truong, Hank Willis Thomas, Fran Wilson, and more.

Curated by Deborah Willis

PLEASE RSVP @ 646-485-1284

A companion exhibit will be on display at Tisch School of the Arts from Sept 2- Nov 20, 2008
Opening Sept 26 6-8
Gulf + Western Gallery

Plenary Symposium
Monday Oct 20 7-9
@ Tisch School of the Arts
Cooper Union Great Hall

Date:	Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time:	6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:	The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Street:	475 Tenth Avenue - 14th Floor
City/Town:	New York, NY

Deborah Willis -- Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs @ Leica Gallery

Opening Reception Thursday:


courtesy Leica Gallery

Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs
Curated by Deborah Willis & Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Leica Gallery
670 Broadway / Suite 500
New York, NY 10012
September 19-November8, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday September 18, 2009

En Foco Seeking Submissions

En Foco seeks submissions for it's New Works Photography Awards, an annual program selecting U.S. based photographers of Latino, African, Asian and Native American heritage through a national call for entries.
New Works helps artists to create/complete an in-depth, photographic series exploring themes of their choice, while providing an honoraria and the infrastructure for a professional exhibition of this new work in the New York City.

Deadline: July 7, 2008 (postmark)
Juror: Deborah Willis, Curator, Author, Photographer
and Chair of the Photo & Imaging Dept at NYU/TISCH

More info: www.enfoco.org & find guidelines here.

Focus Awards Recipients

The Griffin Museum anounced Deborah Willis as a recipient of the Lifetime achievement award and Jen Bekman as a Rising Star for their Focus Awards that is taking place tonight.