Creatives on the Frontlines
Creatives on the Frontlines - Doing the Work!
Moderated by C. Daniel Dawson, photographer, curator, and Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, scholar, author and Director of the Creative Justice Initiative. Engaging in a discussion with photographers Adama Delphine Fawundu and Laylah Amutullah Barrayn.
This discussion will focus on how artists engage in real time through their creative work. Embracing the need for change through their practice, photographers Adama Delphine Fawundu and Laylah Amutullah Barrayn will share their work and experiences in standing up as advocates for change.
C. DANIEL DAWSON
A multi-talented artist, Prof. Dawson has worked as a photographer, filmmaker, curator, arts administrator, consultant and scholar. He has served as Curator of Photography, Film and Video at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), Director of Special Projects at the Caribbean Cultural Center (NYC), Program Manager at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) and Curatorial Consultant and Director of Education at the Museum for African Art (NYC). As a photographer, he has shown in over 35 exhibitions. In addition he has curated more than 70 exhibitions including Harlem Heyday: The Photographs of James Van Der Zee and The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava. Prof. Dawson has also been associated with many prize winning films including Head and Heart by James Mannas and Capoeiras of Brazil by Warrington Hudlin. He has worked as a consultant for the Cooper Hewitt Museum, International Center for Photography, Lincoln Center, Ralph Appelbaum Associates and three different divisions of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. As a scholar, he has lectured at the House of World Cultures-Berlin, the Kit Tropenmuseum-Amsterdam, the University of California-Berkeley, University of Texas-Austin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, New School for Social Research, Columbia University, Princeton University and the Federal University of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro-Brazil. Prof. Dawson has also taught seminars on African Spirituality in the Americas at the University of Iowa, New York University and Yale University. He is currently a member of Kamoinge, a pioneering collective of African American photographers founded in 1963.