Studio Salon: Romi Crawford

On Photography at The Wall of Respect

Off-site event

Sunday March 11, 2018 

2 pm: Presentation

3 pm: Reception

© Bob Crawford, Billy Abernathy (Fundi) with camera, 1968

From the book, The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago.

Crawford reveals the import of photography at the revolutionary mural created by fourteen members of the Organization of Black American Culture on the South Side of Chicago in 1967.

Co-presented by Columbia University School of the Arts, The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Related: Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Ballet Trailblazer is on view at the Miriam and Ira D.

Wallach Art Gallery January 13–March 11, 2018