Art Ed Central: Gordon Parks
when
Tue, Oct 13, 4:30 PM – Tue, Oct 13, 6:00 PM
where
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
One Museum Drive, Montgomery
price
free
Overview Designed for art educators This month’s workshop connects to the upcoming exhibition, Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come . Participants will hear about the upcoming ArtWorks Community Gallery exhibition call and engage in a lesson that combines portraiture and creative writing. This program is free to all. Space is limited and registration is required. For more information, please email Elisabeth Palmer at epalmer@mmfa.org. Register Here This Month’s Instructor: Emily Thomas MMFA Manager of Learning + Programs Above : Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, In their home outside Algiers, Parks photographed Cleaver and his wife Kathleen beneath a picture of Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, who is now in prison for manslaughter , from the series Black Panthers: The Hard Edge of Confrontation , 1970, printed 2017, chromogenic print, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation; Gord
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