LaToya Ruby Frazier

Our mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art. We believe that democratic leadership is the most appropriate way to produce an artistic program that inclusively responds to pressing issues of local and national significance. This democratic ethos is embodied by a forty-member advisory council of neighboring high-school students of color, Temple University students and faculty, as well as civic/cultural leaders representing a range of skills (nurses, farmers, philosophers, artists, community activists, historians, etc.). To each annual meeting every adviser brings one question that they do not know the answer to.  It is out of these questions, and the debates they provoke within the council that determines Temple Contemporary’s programming.This process grounds us in a position of public service to address contemporary questions of urgency and simultaneously necessitates a fundamental philosophical shift for the organization: from a single curatorial/authorial voice to one that recognizes social engagement and debate as the determining factor of our programming. This re-ordering of conventional gallery values foregrounds curatorial accountability, reciprocity, and exchange, as the basis of Temple Contemporary’s social life, and our social values.Funding for Temple Contemporary comes from The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Fels Foundation, The Barra Foundation, The PEW Center for Arts and Heritage, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and Temple University.

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Please join us for the 2nd Annual Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture featuring Photographer and Video Artist <A HREF="http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LaToya Ruby Frazier</A>. Using photography, video, and performance to document her hometown of Braddock, PA, her work addresses issues of industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, and family and communal history.
Receiving her MFA in photography from Syracuse University (2007), Frazier also studied under the Whitney Musuem of American Art Independent Study Program (2010-2011) and was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow for visual arts at the American Academy in Berlin (2103-2014). Currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the School for the Art Institute of Chicago, Frazier also exhibits hew work widely in the U.S. and internationally and is the recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's <A HREF="http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/news/macarthur-fellowship/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MacArthur Fellows Program</A> (2015), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2014).
The Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Program is an endowed annual series at the Tyler School of Art for world-renowned artists to spend a meaningful amount of time with our students.  We are very grateful to the Wolgin family for their generous support of Tyler's educational mission.

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