Conversation: The Illustrious Career of Adger Cowans

Deborah Willis, PhD joins photographer Adger Cowans to discuss the artist’s work, in a conversation moderated by Halima Taha, curator of Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility. The conversation will be followed by a reception with light refreshments at 6 p.m.

We invite you to join the conversation via the following options:

• In-person in the Kelley Theater inside the Quick Center for the Arts
• Streaming via thequicklive.com

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversation-the-illustrious-career-of-adger-cowans-tickets-294764587817

About the exhibition: Adger Cowans (American, b. 1936) is a celebrated photographer whose wide-ranging work includes the civil rights movement, jazz musicians, landscape, and artistic studies of the human form, water, and light. He is also one of the founding members of Kamoinge, a Black photographers collective whose mission is to ‘Honor, document, preserve and represent the history and culture of the African Diaspora with integrity and respect for humanity through the lens of Black Photographers.’ This exhibition, curated by Halima Taha, presents Cowans’s use of photography to articulate the beauty within the human condition and the world we live in with over fifty images from his illustrious career. Integral to Cowan’s work is his conscious effort to remain “close to the natural movement of the universe through the vibrancy of life. I take a picture with my heart, not my eyes. The eyes see what the heart feels.”

https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/adgercowans/