Dr. Deborah Willis photo talk at RISD tuesday feb 26th

http://www.arttixri .com/performance _info.cfm? PID=1568


Dr. Deborah Willis is the chair of the Photography and Imaging department at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU), and is also affiliated with NYU's College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. Her lecture focuses on the role of the camera and photographic image in visualizing historical and contemporary black identities. She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, and has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and culture. The program is co-sponsored by RISD's Photography Department.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:00 PM FREE ADMISSION


RISD Auditorium 17 Canal Street
Providence, RI 02906 (P) 401-454-6500 info@risd.edu www.risd.edu/ museum.cfm This venue is handicap accessible. Directions: From Route 95
Take 95, North or South, to Route 195 east. Get off at exit 1 (Downtown).
Follow the road, and at the 2nd traffic light, take a right (College St.).
The RISD Auditorium is on your left.

From Route 195 West Get off at exit 2 (South Main St.);
proceed .4 mile, past the Court House on the right;
RISD Auditorium is just past that, on the left.
Look for on street parking