Artist Talk with Robert Glenn Ketchum and CVNP

Join us at Happy Days Lodge for an evening of conversation with artist Robert Glenn Ketchum. Highlighting his work in the Ordinary Miracles exhibition at Akron Art Museum and his conservation efforts through photography, Ketchum will join us virtually for a panel-style discussion with curator Wendy Earle and Cuyahoga Valley National Park staff.

Doors open at 6:00 pm. | Event starts at 6:30 pm.

ABOUT ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM

Over the last 40 years, Robert Glenn Ketchum’s imagery, writing, exhibitions, numerous books and personal activism have helped to define photography’s successful use in conservation advocacy. At the same time, Ketchum’s decades of color printing are one of the most unique bodies of work in contemporary color photography, and the textile translations of his photographs created in China since the early 1980’s are among the most beautiful and complex textiles in contemporary art.

Ketchum was named by Audubon magazine as one of the 100 people “who shaped the environmental movement of the 20th Century.” American Photo magazine listed him one of the 100 most important people in contemporary photography in the 1990’s, and then in 2010, named him 5th in their very select American Masters series.

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ABOUT ORDINARY MIRACLES

Robert Glenn Ketchum’s Photographs of Cuyahoga Valley National Park is organized by the Akron Art Museum in partnership with the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the National Park Service to commemorate Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s 50th Anniversary with support from Sandra and Richey* Smith, Meg and Tom Stanton, Dedee O’Neil, and Fran Buchholzer.

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Exhibitions at the Museum are made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Lehner Family Foundation, Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust, John P. Murphy Foundation, and Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photo credit: Robert Glenn Ketchum. CVNRA #397, from the “Federal Lands” series, 1987. Cibachrome print. Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Purchased with funds from The GAR Foundation 1989.14. Courtesy of Wach Gallery, © Robert Glenn Ketchum