September 12, 2024
Join us for Vision & Justice: The Art of Race and Citizenship, a lecture by scholar and author Sarah Lewis.
Image credit: Richard Avedon, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963. © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
Sarah Lewis, the founder of Vision & Justice, is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and an associate professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the bestseller The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Simon & Schuster), and the forthcoming book Vision & Justice (One World/Random House).
Lewis is also the editor of the award-winning volume Vision & Justice (Aperture magazine) and an anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press). Her awards include the Infinity Award, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, the Freedom Scholar Award (ASALH), the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association and the Photography Network Book Prize. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum and The New York Review of Books, and her work has been the subject of profiles in publications including The Boston Globe and The New York Times.
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Further information
- Location: Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
- Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Cost: $0.00