(Photo by Alison Wright)
Journey around the world with National Geographic Traveler of the Year and contributing photographer, Alison Wright as she presents her photographs and stories documenting the resiliency and empowerment of women at work in developing countries October 22, 6:30pm at the Tower Theatre.
Wright will share stories of women in Africa, India, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East who have risen above circumstance to empower themselves through their strength and tenacity.
Wright has spent her career capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs and her writing. She is a recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography and a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award. Wright leads National Geographic photo workshops and tours as a South East Asia expert.
Tickets: $15 www.towertheatre.org or 541-317-0700
The program is presented by The Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program of the COCC Foundation. The title sponsor for this program is The University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication with additional support from Connect W, Old Mill District, The Bulletin and World Muse.
On October 28 at the High Desert Museum at 6:30pm here Then and Now: Edward Curtis, Early 20th Century Photography and Contemporary Native American Photographers’ Responses by Julia Dolan, Ph.D, The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum.
This talk will place Edward Curtis’ photographs for The North American Indian within the larger context of early twentieth-century photography, when Pictorialist, Modernist, and social documentary styles vied from prominence. In addition, Dr. Dolan will discuss current works by contemporary Native American photographers Zig Jackson (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, b. 1957), Wendy Red Star (Apsa’alooke, b. 1981), and Will Wilson (Diné, b. 1969) that directly respond to Curtis and his photographic legacy.
Dr. Dolan holds a B.F.A. in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an M.A. in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Art History from Boston University. She has worked with photography collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. As the Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Dr. Dolan is responsible for researching and growing the Museum’s permanent collection and presenting exhibitions based on the Museum’s collection and important works from public and private collections from around the world.
Tickets: $5 for general public, $3 for High Desert Museum members, Student Free with ID card.
Please RSVP: www.highdesertmuseum.org/rsvp and pay at the door.
This program is presented by The Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program of the COCC Foundation and the High Desert Museum.
