SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
“Shadows and Ashes: The Perils of Nuclear Weapons” (2017)
This exhibition had two components: one with photography by Gary Schoichet, sculpture by Marion Held, and contemporaneous children’s drawings about the horrific consequences of the bombing of Hiroshima; another component had wall panels and interactive video providing information about current nuclear issues. It was prepared in conjunction with Professor Zia Mian (co-director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security) and his colleagues and students. After lively panels and programs at Princeton University, the show traveled to the Retty Center at Cornell University under the stewardship of Hannah Starr Rogers and then to Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center in Maryland.
“The Black South in the Sixties” (2018)
Julius Lester photographed major portions of the black South and the civil rights movement from 1964-68 when he was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Among photographs of landscapes and people, this exhibition at Princeton’s Bernstein Gallery included his portraits of John Lewis, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Fannie Lou Hamer and others whose names, as he wrote, “ never made the newspapers…But they transformed this country by how they lived their lives.”