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January Issue 2006
Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, Features Exhibit by African American Women Photographers
Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, will present the exhibition, Food for the Soul, featuring works by members of Sistagraphy, an Atlanta-based group featuring seasoned and emerging talents within the community of African American women photographers. The exhibit will be on view in the College's Milliken Gallery from Jan. 5 through Feb. 3, 2006.
Shelia Turner
The Sistagraphy group was formed in May 1993 when Atlanta photographer Sheila Turner summoned an informal group of female photographers to discuss ways to creatively express their African American culture through the photographic arts. Although the group is based in Atlanta, GA, some of its more than 45 members live in Ohio, California, Delaware, Philadelphia and New York. They have exhibited widely including Hammonds House Galleries (Atlanta), Rush Art Gallery (New York), Cleveland State University and Bryn Mawr University.
In Food for the Soul,
the group strives to create and present images as a form of conversation
and dialogue about a variety of topics including their perspectives
of the South, visual paradoxes, contemporary life and the photographic
representation of the black body. The exhibition provides a glimpse
into each photographer's style and what feeds her soul. Interpretations
range from spiritual to family to soul food and beyond. Mediums
include classic silver, gelatin prints, Polaroid transfers, mixed
media creations and imaginative framing.
Founded in 1889 and located in Spartanburg, Converse College is
an independent, residential liberal arts college for women with
a professional school of music and graduate programs in education,
music, and the liberal arts. For more than 100 years, Converse
has been guided by one vision-to prepare women to approach the
world with intelligence and compassion. An emphasis on leadership
development and service learning coupled with career preparation
through a liberal arts foundation helps Converse students to find
their place among the successful and influential people of tomorrow.
Converse is consistently recognized by US News & World
Report as a top college in the South, and is named to Colleges
of Distinction and The Best 201 Colleges for the Real World.
For more information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, contact Eric Lawson,
associate director of communications at 864/596-9705 or e-mail
at (eric.lawson@converse.edu).
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