ANNOUNCEMENT: Doris A. Derby to Donate Civil Rights Photograph to University of Alabama During Exhibit Opening

Via uanews.ua.edu:

Dr. Doris A. Derby, a documentary photographer and civil rights activist, will donate a historic photograph from the civil rights era to The University of Alabama during the opening reception of an exhibit featuring her photographs.

The exhibit, “Fertile Ground: The Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy in the Mississippi Delta,” will be displayed Oct. 2-30 at The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa.

The opening reception will held Friday, Oct. 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the gallery, during which Derby will also present an artist’s talk. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

Derby’s donated photograph will become part of the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at UA, one of the largest collections of African-American art in the world.  Paul Jones donated the collection to UA in 2008. He died in 2010.

“Paul saw some of my photographs before he died, and he wanted to purchase some of them for his collection,” Derby said. “The photograph I’m donating is one of the ones he had selected. It was just meant to be in the collection.”

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LIMITED EDITION PRINT: "Untitled (Structures)" by Leslie Hewitt

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Leslie Hewitt (in collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young)

Untitled (Structures), 2012

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Leslie Hewitt is an artist living in New York City. With her work in photography and other media, she tries to restructure pieces of American history by inserting people, things, and icons forgotten by the times and gives them new purpose in the present. Hewitt graduated from The Cooper Union’s School of Art in 2000 and went on to earn an MFA from Yale University in 2004. Her work is in the public collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, the Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. Hewitt was represented in the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography 2009, a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Hewitt participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in July 2009.

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