New Exhibition Opening in September
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September 8, 2021–March 20, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze
Through sixty-seven photographs, video, and an architectural installation, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier chronicles the lives of workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, which stopped production in 2019 after more than fifty years of operation.This shutdown presented Lordstown facility workers with limited choices: relocate, sometimes leaving behind family and support networks, or find work elsewhere. The Last Cruze extends Frazier’s long-standing commitment to visualizing how working-class people—in places such as Flint, Michigan; her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania; and the Borinage mining region in Belgium—are impacted by industrial exploits, environmental injustice, and systemic racism.
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Thursday, September 16 | 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Industrial Residue in the Rust Belt: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Taylor Renee Aldridge in Conversation
In person
To inaugurate The Last Cruze, LaToya Ruby Frazier will be joined by CAAM Visual Arts Curator Taylor Renee Aldridge to discuss Frazier’s ongoing work in documentary film and photography. In various interconnected bodies of work, Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to celebrate working-class individuals and to address topics of industrialism, environmental justice, workers’ rights, human rights, and family. The Last Cruze extends this impulse by offering a monument to the workers of the former General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio, which was “unallocated” in 2019, leaving many of the factory workers unemployed. Frazier and Aldridge will discuss Black Americans’ contributions to the history of industrial advancement in this country, and how post-industrial decline continues to negatively impact working-class communities in Rust Belt cities, like Frazier’s hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze and related programs are presented in partnership with USC School of Architecture and USC Roski School of Art and Design.
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Sunday, September 19 | 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Self Care: Yoga
Outdoors and in person
Move through a 60-minute yoga flow with yoga and meditation teacher Constance Hartwell. No previous experience necessary. Class takes place outdoors. Please bring your own yoga mat and water.
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Wednesday, September 22 | 7:00–8:00 p.m.
Netflix Talk Back—Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Online
For three pivotal years, Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X forged a brotherhood that would not only change both men, but change the world. Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali, available on Netflix September 9, tells the extraordinary story behind the friendship—and the ultimate falling out—of two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. Join us for this exclusive online talk back with film director, Marcus A. Clarke, who offers a fresh perspective through insider interviews and never-before-seen footage to chart this complex friendship, tracing the men’s near-simultaneous and symbiotic rise. RSVP for details.
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New on our blog, 600State
CAAM Reads! Each month CAAM Research Librarian and regular book club moderator Denise L. Mc Iver shares her thoughts on a different title, as well as some questions for guided reading. In August she turned her attention to the debut novel by Keisha Bush, No Heaven for Good Boys, a harrowing yet ultimately hopeful story of two young boys in Senegal.
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CAAM YouTube Channel
Did you know that you can access original CAAM videos on our YouTube channel?
You'll find short videos about our exhibitions, full recordings of recent Zoom programs, interviews with artists, like this new one with Sanford Biggers about his work now on view at CAAM, and more!
Subscribe today for the latest word on new videos as they are produced.
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