For Freedoms 50 States Billboard Project, Hank Willis Thomas
The Gordon Parks Foundation this week announced the artists named as 2019 fellows: Guadalupe Rosales and Department of Photography & Imaging alum Hank Willis Thomas ('98). The artists have each been awarded $20,000 to support new or ongoing projects that reflect and draw inspiration from the themes of representation and social justice in Parks’ creative work. Each project will culminate in exhibitions at the Gordon Parks Foundation exhibition space in Pleasantville, NY in 2019. Awarded annually, the fellowships demonstrate the Foundation’s commitment to advancing Parks’ extraordinary vision and legacy of social change through the arts and humanities.
2019 marks the third year of the fellowship program and the cumulative support of six fellows, including Derrick Adams and Deana Lawson in 2018, and Devin Allen and Harriet Dedman in 2017. Adams and Lawson will participate in the Gordon Parks Dialogues on April 13, 2019, presented at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.