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Chester Higgins – The Intimacy of Prayer

CHESTER HIGGINS

THE INTIMACY OF PRAYER

The Fordham University Galleries
Ildiko Butler Gallery
November 25, 2024 – January 17, 2025
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113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
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The Visual Arts Program at Fordham University and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs are please to present The Intimacy of Prayer, an exhibition of Chester Higgins’ photographs of various forms of devotion taken across the Untied States, Africa, and the MENA region.

Photographer and author Chester Higgins was born in Alabama in 1946 and was formally educated at Tuskegee University, graduating in 1970.  Experiences with his family’s church community, as well as with college campus student protest, were formative in developing the direction of Higgins’s artistic practice.  Higgins’s oeuvre portrays the dignity of the African American and African diasporic communities, and this work has brought Higgins all over the world, and to Africa in particular, many times.  Higgins worked as a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1975 until 2014, and is the author of several publications, including Black Woman (1970); Drums of Life (1974); Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994); Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000); and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004). 

Higgins’s work has been the subject of many international exhibitions and is held in notable collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.  Higgins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Professor Pix #2: Close-Up: 11/14, 6 pm ?>

Professor Pix #2: Close-Up: 11/14, 6 pm

Professor Pix Film #2: Close-Up, 1990 Directed Abbas Kiarostami
November 14, 2024, 6 pm
Lincoln Center Campus Visual Arts Complex Film Screening Room SL24L
Open to everyone. Pizza is served at 6, and the film screening starts shortly after
Film discussion moderated by Professor Fadi Skeiker, Professor Ashar Foley, and Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Sponsored by the LC Dean’s Office and Professor Connections funding

“Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.” —Criterion

What is Professor Pix? Each season, we ask professors in the Visual Arts Department and special guests to present significant films to the Fordham community. At screenings, we enjoy pizza together, watch a movie, and then discuss it afterward. So, step outside your regular streaming queue, experience something different, and join our community of merry cinephiles throughout the semester. It’s called Professor Pix, and it’s fun—so bring your friends!

Art of the Interview (an Art & Engagement class) ?>

Art of the Interview (an Art & Engagement class)

VART 2222 has new attributes coming: History, American Studies, Theater Production and Design, Urban Studies (and it still has New Media Digital Design and Community Engaged Learning attributes).

Please note we changed the name of the course from “Archival Reenactments” to “Art of the Interview.”
Moments and Time: 2024 Senior Thesis Group Show ?>

Moments and Time: 2024 Senior Thesis Group Show

2024 Senior Thesis Group Show

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New York, NY 10023
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The Fordham University Department of Visual Arts is pleased to present, Moments and Time, a final group show of the 2024 Senior Thesis Students.

Featuring work by: Booch O’Connell, Sara Lockett, Gabrielle Gowans, Arina Medvedeva, Maureen Segota, Erin Newton, Spencer Balter, Mila Gras, Julia Boberg, Caroline Wong, and Madison Nash.A closing reception will be on May 15 from 6-8pm.