Celebrating Gordon Parks

 Join us for a day of programming celebrating Gordon Parks, the prominent photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director whose photography is currently on view at the Museum in “Homeward to the Prairie I Come: Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art.”

Spend the day learning about Gordon Parks through the exhibition and accompanying family guide, browse vintage books and albums from local vendor Black Citizens Brigade, and make a zine with artist and educator Evan Starling Davis. Join us for an artist talk by contemporary photographer Jarod Lew, and then stay for a screening of “A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks” (2021).

Schedule of Events:  

Community Arts Fair
Noon – 5 p.m.
Shaffer Art Building Galleria

• Black Citizens Brigade
  Pop Up featuring a selection of vintage books, magazines, and records highlighting the work of Gordon Parks and his contemporaries
• Evan Starling Davis
  Zine making with Syracuse artist and educator

Artist Talk: Jarod Lew
1 p.m.
Syracuse University Art Museum

Jarod Lew is an an artist who draws on photography to explore intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement, and postmemory. Through this exploration, his work contends with the performativity of race and its instability as a locus of meaning.

Film Screening: A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
2:30 p.m.
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building

This documentary explores the power of images in advancing racial, economic and social equality as seen through the work of trailblazing photographer Gordon Parks.