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Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite (exhibition)

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 12:00am to Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - 12:00am
Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College (UCSC)
Presented by: 
Sesnon Gallery (note: Use Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery instead)

 

Gallery hours: Tue-Sat. 12-5pm & Wed. 12-8pm


Special Events on Wed, October 3:

Gallery reception at Porter College (5:00-6:15pm)

Reception will be followed by a talk by Lewis Watts in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), Room 108 (6:30-7:30pm) 

 

Join MJ's Brass Boppers, 2nd Line Jazz band from San Francisco, at 6:15pm for a lively New Orlean's-style procession from the reception to the talk.

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New Orleans Suite presents a window into the social landscape of life in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Vivid black and white photography exposes the contrast of devastation and humanity in such a rich sector of American jazz culture. Additionally the gallery will showcase some of Watts's new work from Cuba. 

 

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The Sesnon Gallery located at Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, operates a museum-oriented program for educational purposes and encourages interdisciplinary discourse through the lens of the arts. 

 


Gallery hours are Tuesday–Saturday, noon to 5pm, Wednesdays until 8pm, and by appointment for special tours. The gallery is wheelchair accessible and admission is free. Parking is available in metered spots near the gallery or $4 for special events. Parking is free on Saturdays. For further information, please call 831/459-3606.

 

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Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is co‐author of “Harlem of the West, The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era” which consists of found photographs and oral histories of an African American Community that sprang up as a result of the migration west during WW II and that was “urban renewed” out of existence in the late 1960s. 

He is also the co‐author with Professor Eric Porter of New Orleans Suite scheduled for publication by the University of California Press in 2012. That book uses his photographs, traces the music and culture of New Orleans and how its artists and cultural workers have functioned to revive the African American community in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. His photography has been exhibited and is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), The Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York), The Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C.), The Oakland Museum of California, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the California Historical Society.

 

Free