In connection with the photography exhibition Traveling Full Circle: Frank Stewart’s Visual Music, on Friday, May 20, 2011, an illustrated panel discussion will explore the evolution of jazz photography from the early days of jazz to the present. Moderated by exhibit co-curator Robert G. O’Meally in discussion with photographer Frank Stewart, photography critic A.D. Coleman, photographer Petra Richterova PhD, and C. Daniel Dawson, exhibition co-curator.
Frank Stewart is a highly prolific photographer, who has spent the past few decades documenting jazz and blues culture, African American family and African American culinary arts and has documented and presented a series of works that celebrating a myriad of visual artists and poets, including: Romare Bearden, Ntozake Shange, and Langston Hughes, and Roy DeCarava.
The panel discussion will take place at 6:30 pm at The Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Studio at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY.
Traveling Full Circle: Frank Stewart’s Visual Music exhibition will be on view through August 7, 2011. The event is free and seating is open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 6:00pm. For more information on this exhibition and panel discussion, please visit jalc.org/exhibit.
Frank Stewart’s upcoming exhibits include:
Traveling Full Circle: Frank Stewart’s Bisual Music
Jazz at Lincoln Center/Time Warnter Building
Fifth floor Atrium Gallery
10 Columbus Circle, Manhattan
Kimo Stone Gallery, Pittsburgh
Galerie Intemporel, Paris
Summer 2011
Frank Stewart
Romare Bearden: The Last Years
July 15 - October 31, 2011
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3736
Fall 2011
September 2, 2011 - January 22, 2012
Romare Bearden: The Life
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture
551 S. Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
