Video: “Panel: A Conversation About Photography and the Black Arts Movement”
This recording of a two-part event, held on October 25, 2018, in conjunction with the exhibition Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, begins with a conversation among artists Darryl Cowherd, Roy Lewis, Ozier Muhammad, and Jim Stricklin, facilitated by the exhibition’s curator, Michal Raz-Russo. An edited transcript is available here.
Following that conversation, journalists Natalie Y. Moore (WBEZ) and Kyra Kyles (Myth Lab Entertainment and former editor-in-chief of Ebony), historian Romi Crawford (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and artists Maria Gaspar and Tonika Johnson discuss the lasting legacy of Black Arts Movement artists.
"Video: "Panel: A Conversation About Photography and the Black Arts Movement,"" in Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, ed. Michal Raz-Russo, with Grace Deveney and Romi Crawford (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).
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