Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina continues at CFAC through April 21st. Guest curated by Redell Hearn, the exhibitions 40 Days and 40 Nights: Photographs by Donn Young and Saving A Collection: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr. are featured.
When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.
Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his twenty-five year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.
For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans today.
This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.
This exhibition is sponsored in part from a grant from the Ford Foundation
ADULT PAINTING WORKSHOP WITH
FORD FOUNDATION ARTIST IN RESIDENCE CHARLY PALMER
The Community Folk Art Center would like to announce that registrations are being accepted for our Adult Painting Class with Ford Foundation Artist in Residence Charly Palmer. The adult painting class is designed for people with some experience and a serious interest in the visual arts. Located in Syracuse’s Connective Corridor, CFAC is offering a unique opportunity for you to explore and develop your creative skills and talents under the direction of a master artist.
Class Details:
April 9th thru April 13th 2007
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Class size is limited so call early
