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Sep. 13, 2023
The exhibitions deal with issues of race, queerness, history, and identity.
Read MoreQueer-ish highlights Ken Gonzales-Day鈥檚 personal collection of 19th- and 20th-century vernacular photographs鈥攕napshots of everyday life and subjects鈥攄epicting people who may have identified as LGBTQ+.
Read MoreWorks from his ongoing series have also been recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and other prestigious museums for their permanent collections.
Read MoreThe work is part of Gonzales-Day’s ongoing聽Erased Lynchings聽series,聽which began with a focus on the history of lynching in California.
Read MoreJung Fitzpatrick ’01 spoke to ShoutoutLA about photography, making mid-career changes, and her favorite spots in San Francisco. When she was in her mid-30s, Fitzpatrick left her career in nonprofit management to pursue a career in photography.
Read MoreThe J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired six photographs by Ken Gonzales-Day, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and professor of art, from his Searching for California Hang Trees and Memento Mori series.
Read MoreFletcher Jones Chair in Art and Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s project, Profiled, is on view at Playwrights Horizons through April 5, 2021.
Read MoreSubjects/Objects: A Critical Look at Photographic Truth is now on display as a virtual exhibition at the Clark Humanities Museum. Sophomores Gillian Bell, Chloe Boxer, Molly Bradshaw, Madeleine Callan, Margo Collazo, Katie Eu, Anna Horne, Tsion Mamo, Vivian Monteiro, Emma Sar, and Aanya Subramaniam curated the exhibition as part of Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day鈥檚 Core III class.
Read More鈥淩ight from the beginning of this virtual learning period, I thought about how I could work with students to create an academic experience that would be shared, but also personal.”
Read MoreProfessor of Art and Fletcher Jones Chair in Art Ken Gonzales-Day鈥檚 photograph of the Portrait of Shonke Mon-thi^ now resides in the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery, per Smithsonian magazine. Shonke Mon-thi^ was a priest of the Gentle Sky clan and a member of an Osage delegation that came to Washington, D.C., in 1904 to negotiate the land and mineral rights of his nation.
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