Dartmouth Events

Collaborating with Lakota People

John Willis presents on his long time work with Lakota people, the Exposures Cross Cultural Youth Arts Pgrm and work with the resistance movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline

Thursday, May 18, 2017
12:30pm – 1:30am
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

John Willis is a Professor and Photographer at Marlboro College.  Please join us as he presents on his long time work with Lakota people, creation of the Exposures Cross Cultural Youth Arts Program and work with the resistance movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline

Professor Willis received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986.  John is the Professor of Photography at Marlboro College and Founding Director of The In-Sight Photography Project offering courses to southern Vermont area youth regardless of their ability to pay. He co-founded the Exposures Cross Cultural Youth Photography Program, bringing youth together from a wide variety of backgrounds to share cultural stories through the photographic arts and storytelling. John received a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as other fellowships including; from Vermont Council on the Arts, Vermont Arts Endowment and Open Society Foundation. His work is in numerous permanent collections including:  Whitney Museum of American Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, George Eastman House Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, J.P. Getty Museum and National Museum of Native Americans. John’s has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at: Stark Gallery, NYC, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, and Oglala Lakota College. John and Tom Young’s book, “Recycled Realities” 2005 and the monograph “Views From The Reservation” 2010 were published by the Center for American Places and Columbia College.

www.jwillis.net

www.insight-photography.org/

www.exposures-program.org/

For more information, contact:
Kim Wind
603-646-2838

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.