9:30–9:40 a.m.
Opening statement
Roxana Marcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator of Photography, Robert B. Menschel Department of
Photography, MoMA
9:40–10:00
Keynote statement
LaToya Ruby Frazier, artist-activist
10:00–11:30
Session I: Black Feminist Worldbuilding
“Speaking to Zion: Photography, Monumentality and LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Black Feminist World-Building”
Presented by Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and inaugural director of the Black Studies Collaboratory
“Black Feminist Practice and the Testimonial Archive in the Work of LaToya Ruby Frazier”
Presented by Terrion Williamson, Associate Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, and director of the Black Midwest Initiative
“From an Intergenerational Perch: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford”
Presented by Emilie Boone, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Roundtable I: Narrative and the Activist Camera
Moderated by Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Associate Curator, Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography, MoMA
Panelists:
Sarah Lewis, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, and Founder, The Vision & Justice Project
Michal Raz-Russo, Programs Director, The Gordon Parks Foundation
Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art
2:00–3:00
Session II: Histories of Deindustrialization
“Denim Destruction: LaToya Ruby Frazier Reveals Latent Labor Histories”
Presented by Delphine Sims, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“Photography at the Factory Gates”
Presented by Benjamin Young, Faculty Associate in Art History, Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
3:00–4:00
Roundtable II: The Political Space of Labor
Moderated by Brent Hayes Edwards, Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and 2021–22 Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence, MoMA
Panelists:
Amber Wiley, Assistant Professor of Art History, Rutgers University
Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
4:00–4:15
Closing conversation