Lonnie Graham
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Lonnie Graham is a fine art photographer, professor
, installation artist, and cultural activist investigating the methods by which the arts can be used to achieve tangible meaning in peoples lives.
in University Park, near State College, Pennsylvania. From 2001 until 2003 he held the post of visiting instructor of Graduate Studies at San Francisco Art Institute
, in San Francisco, California
. In 2002, Kimberley Camp, Executive Director of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania invited Graham to conduct an Oral history of the Barnes. He was later made instructor of special programs and continued to teach at the Barnes until 2007. From 2007 until 2009 Graham was the acting Associate Director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
From 1990 to 1997 Graham was director of Photography at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
, an urban arts organization founded by William Strickland, Jr. dedicated to arts and education for at risk youth. Graham developed innovative pilot projects including the Arts Collaborative, which merges an art and academic curriculum. This program attracted the attention of First Lady Hillary Clinton who visited the site, and honored it as a National Model for Arts Education. Professor Graham has served as a panel member and site visitor to the Commonwealth for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
. He also served in a similar capacity at the national level for National Endowment for the Arts
in Washington, DC.
Lonnie Graham studied graphic design
and commercial photography at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1976 he studied fine art photography and drawing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he attended private sessions with photographer Robert Frank
and critiques by art critic Donald Kuspit
. In 1977 he traveled San Francisco Art Institute, and studied with Linda Connor
, Jack Fulton, Regan Louie, and Henry Wessel. He was assistant to Larry Sultan
and pioneering visual anthropologist John Collier Jr.. Graham was mentored in large format photography by Pirkle Jones
, close friend and colleague to Ansel Adams
who made frequent visits to the Art Institute. Beginning in 2003 Graham began collaborative photographic expeditions to India
, Ethiopia
, and Iceland
with photographer Linda Connor. He traveled with Jack Fulton to India, Nepal
and Tibet
in 2007.
Graham initiated a number of funded and self-funded trips to Africa
and Asia
that relate to artistic and cultural work he had undertaken in Philadelphia with the Fairmount Park Art Association and in Pittsburgh with the support of the Three Rivers Arts Festival. These projects were meant to prove that substantive change could be achieved in peoples’ lives by making the arts a viable solution to common problems. Toward this end, Graham was awarded a number of major commissions. In 1997, from Jeanne Pearlman at the Three Rivers Arts Festival
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, commissioned a project entitled, the “African/American Garden Project.”[10] This was part of a larger series of an exhibition called “Points of Entry” including installations from artists , Ann Carlson, Group Material, Michelle Illuminato, Daniel J. Martinez, and Fred Wilson. The African/American Garden project provided a physical and cultural exchange of urban single mothers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and farmers from a small farming village in Muguga, Kenya
. As a result of this project, Graham built a series of urban subsistence gardens as a component to other projects. In 2001, Mary Jane Jacob invited Graham to participate in the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. She and Tumelo Mosaka curated “Evoking History,” which included Graham’s “Heritage Garden Project.” Because Graham had visited traditional cultures in Africa and Asia he constructed larger projects including a number of artists and community members. The goal was to establish a method for modern artists to work in a traditional way, addressing basic needs of a community.
From 2000 to 2010 Graham worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with artists John H. Stone and Art Sanctuary director Lorene Cary on a project commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association, for Project H.O.M.E. in north Philadelphia. In addition to installations, projects and neighborhood events the result of the commission was a mediation park, which was dedicated and gifted to the community in 2010.
In 1997 Lonnie was honored with a major commission for travel to Papua New Guinea
to document the harvest of the Woowoosi tree used by the Maisen tribe to produce ceremonial Tapa cloth
. He later collaborated with curator Lawrence Rinder
on an exhibition of photographs and artifacts produced from that expedition..
/ Pew Charitable Trust Travel Grant for travel to Ghana
. Lonnie Graham is a four-time Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Fellowship winner. He has been nominated as a DuPont Fellow, and for the Cal Arts-Alpert Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and a USArtist Fellowship. He was awarded the Creative Achievement Award by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
. Lonnie Graham received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts
. The Pew is one of the largest individual artist fellowships in the United States
. In 2005, he was awarded the Hazlett Memorial Award and conferred the distinction of as Artist of the Year in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and presented the Governor’s Award by Governor Edward Rendell.
Graham designed the catalogue entitled, “Countdown to Eternity, photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King” by Benedict Fernandez
, as well as a the traveling exhibition of photographs. He also designed the catalogue for Carrie Mae Weems
’ “Kitchen Table Series,” exhibited at Hollins University
in Roanoke, Virginia
and is known to have worked with Weems collaboratively on other projects at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Specifically, the Adam and Eve folding screen entitled the “Apple of Adam’s Eye,” produced in 1992. He collaborated with David Lewis to produce a book about sculptor Thaddeus Mosley
entitled, “Thaddeus Mosley, African American Sculptor.” Pyramid Atlantic, in Silver Spring, Maryland
published his own “Friendship, Strength and Vitality” as a limited edition photogravure
edition which resides in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC and the collection of the Schomberg Center in New York City
, New York.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition “A Conversation with the World,” has been widely disseminated by Light Work in Syracuse, New York
. “A Conversation with the World,” was conceived by Graham and photographer Kevin Martin in 1986. The project combines elements of social anthropology and fine art as it utilizes an interview component to engage participants who sit for a large format 4”x5” portrait made using polaroid type 55 positive/negative film. Graham was documented using this process in Houston, Texas at Rick Lowe’s Project Row Houses in artist Round 19. “A Conversation with the World,” has been conducted and exhibited in “A Conversation with the World,” San Francisco. He was commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission to do the public art project that was installed at the San Francisco City Hall
and exhibited in public spaces around the city. The project was commissioned and presented in Calgary, Alberta, Eatonville, Florida and Oulu, Finland. In 2005 he was awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Artists in Communities Grant under the auspices of The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to produce “A Conversation at the Table.” This project invited over 50 artists and four arts organizations to collaborate on a project based on essential aspects of humanity. The project was completed and presented in 2006.
The Queens Museum in New York also commissioned him to produce an international garden project as part of their “Down the Garden Path” exhibition presented in 2005. Other exhibitions include an exhibition of photographs at Goethe Institute, Accra
Ghana. La Maison de Etat-Unis, Paris
, France
produced a full scale reproduction of one of the educational galleries he photographed for the Barnes Foundation Graham has shown at the Toyota City Museum in Aichi, Japan
. Graham has exhibited a room sized installation at the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, DC. Grahams work is included in the permanent collections of the Addison Gallery for American Art in Andover, MA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia, PA.
In 2005 he collaborated with MacArthur Fellow, Deborah Willis
on “Framing the Diaspora” with which resulted in an international conference of artists, photographers, and filmmakers held in Accra, Ghana.
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
, installation artist, and cultural activist investigating the methods by which the arts can be used to achieve tangible meaning in peoples lives.
Biography
Graham is a Professor of Visual Art at Pennsylvania State UniversityPennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
in University Park, near State College, Pennsylvania. From 2001 until 2003 he held the post of visiting instructor of Graduate Studies at San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
, in San Francisco, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. In 2002, Kimberley Camp, Executive Director of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania invited Graham to conduct an Oral history of the Barnes. He was later made instructor of special programs and continued to teach at the Barnes until 2007. From 2007 until 2009 Graham was the acting Associate Director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
From 1990 to 1997 Graham was director of Photography at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is a nonprofit multi-discipline art, education and music organization established in 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, with the address of 1815 Metropolitan St. 15233...
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, an urban arts organization founded by William Strickland, Jr. dedicated to arts and education for at risk youth. Graham developed innovative pilot projects including the Arts Collaborative, which merges an art and academic curriculum. This program attracted the attention of First Lady Hillary Clinton who visited the site, and honored it as a National Model for Arts Education. Professor Graham has served as a panel member and site visitor to the Commonwealth for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is an agency serving the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Established in 1966, its mission is "to foster the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts throughout the state." Each year...
. He also served in a similar capacity at the national level for National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
in Washington, DC.
Lonnie Graham studied graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
and commercial photography at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1976 he studied fine art photography and drawing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he attended private sessions with photographer Robert Frank
Robert Frank
Robert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
and critiques by art critic Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. He was formerly the A....
. In 1977 he traveled San Francisco Art Institute, and studied with Linda Connor
Linda Connor
Linda Connor is an American photographer who photographs spiritual and exotic locations including India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest....
, Jack Fulton, Regan Louie, and Henry Wessel. He was assistant to Larry Sultan
Larry Sultan
Larry Sultan was an American photographer. His work was recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as multiple grants from the NEA...
and pioneering visual anthropologist John Collier Jr.. Graham was mentored in large format photography by Pirkle Jones
Pirkle Jones
Pirkle Jones was a documentary photographer born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His first experience with photography was when he purchased a Kodak Brownie at the age of seventeen. In the 30's his photographs were featured in pictorialist salons and publications...
, close friend and colleague to Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
who made frequent visits to the Art Institute. Beginning in 2003 Graham began collaborative photographic expeditions to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
, and Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
with photographer Linda Connor. He traveled with Jack Fulton to India, Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
and Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
in 2007.
Graham initiated a number of funded and self-funded trips to Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
that relate to artistic and cultural work he had undertaken in Philadelphia with the Fairmount Park Art Association and in Pittsburgh with the support of the Three Rivers Arts Festival. These projects were meant to prove that substantive change could be achieved in peoples’ lives by making the arts a viable solution to common problems. Toward this end, Graham was awarded a number of major commissions. In 1997, from Jeanne Pearlman at the Three Rivers Arts Festival
Three Rivers Arts Festival
Three Rivers Arts Festival is a large outdoor festival of the visual and performing arts held every summer throughout downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The festival has been held annually, in June, since 1959....
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, commissioned a project entitled, the “African/American Garden Project.”[10] This was part of a larger series of an exhibition called “Points of Entry” including installations from artists , Ann Carlson, Group Material, Michelle Illuminato, Daniel J. Martinez, and Fred Wilson. The African/American Garden project provided a physical and cultural exchange of urban single mothers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and farmers from a small farming village in Muguga, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
. As a result of this project, Graham built a series of urban subsistence gardens as a component to other projects. In 2001, Mary Jane Jacob invited Graham to participate in the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. She and Tumelo Mosaka curated “Evoking History,” which included Graham’s “Heritage Garden Project.” Because Graham had visited traditional cultures in Africa and Asia he constructed larger projects including a number of artists and community members. The goal was to establish a method for modern artists to work in a traditional way, addressing basic needs of a community.
From 2000 to 2010 Graham worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with artists John H. Stone and Art Sanctuary director Lorene Cary on a project commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association, for Project H.O.M.E. in north Philadelphia. In addition to installations, projects and neighborhood events the result of the commission was a mediation park, which was dedicated and gifted to the community in 2010.
In 1997 Lonnie was honored with a major commission for travel to Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
to document the harvest of the Woowoosi tree used by the Maisen tribe to produce ceremonial Tapa cloth
Tapa cloth
Tapa cloth is a bark cloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii...
. He later collaborated with curator Lawrence Rinder
Lawrence Rinder
Lawrence R. Rinder is the Director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive , a position to which he was appointed in 2008.Previously, he was the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco...
on an exhibition of photographs and artifacts produced from that expedition..
Awards and Honors
In the 1995 Colliers Encyclopedia yearbook, Graham was cited as an encyclopedic point of reference for his research and creative accomplishments in the field of installation art. He was also the recipient of a National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
/ Pew Charitable Trust Travel Grant for travel to Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
. Lonnie Graham is a four-time Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is an agency serving the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Established in 1966, its mission is "to foster the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts throughout the state." Each year...
Fellowship winner. He has been nominated as a DuPont Fellow, and for the Cal Arts-Alpert Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and a USArtist Fellowship. He was awarded the Creative Achievement Award by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a nonprofit arts organization, is a driving catalyst behind the ongoing development of the Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District, Pittsburgh...
. Lonnie Graham received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Pew Fellowships in the Arts
The Pew Fellowships in the Arts is an organization established by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 1991 which awards grants to Philadelphia-area artists. The grants provide artists with an economic freedom that presents the opportunity to focus on their individual practices over a considerable period...
. The Pew is one of the largest individual artist fellowships in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. In 2005, he was awarded the Hazlett Memorial Award and conferred the distinction of as Artist of the Year in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and presented the Governor’s Award by Governor Edward Rendell.
Graham designed the catalogue entitled, “Countdown to Eternity, photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King” by Benedict Fernandez
Benedict Fernandez
Benedict Fernandez , is a Filipino professional basketball player currently playing with the Philippine Patriots.-Draft:Fernandez was drafted by Barako Bull Energy Boosters in 2009, 12th overall.-PBA career:...
, as well as a the traveling exhibition of photographs. He also designed the catalogue for Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems is an award-winning photographer and artist. Her photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity...
’ “Kitchen Table Series,” exhibited at Hollins University
Hollins University
Hollins University is a four-year institution of higher education, a private university located on a campus on the border of Roanoke County, Virginia and Botetourt County, Virginia...
in Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke is an independent city in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. state of Virginia and is the tenth-largest city in the Commonwealth. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. The population within the city limits was 97,032 as of 2010...
and is known to have worked with Weems collaboratively on other projects at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Specifically, the Adam and Eve folding screen entitled the “Apple of Adam’s Eye,” produced in 1992. He collaborated with David Lewis to produce a book about sculptor Thaddeus Mosley
Thaddeus Mosley
Thaddeus G. Mosley is a United States sculptor who works mostly in wood and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Biography:A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Mosley enlisted in the U.S. Navy, then graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he majored in English and journalism, then...
entitled, “Thaddeus Mosley, African American Sculptor.” Pyramid Atlantic, in Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
published his own “Friendship, Strength and Vitality” as a limited edition photogravure
Photogravure
Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a...
edition which resides in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC and the collection of the Schomberg Center in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, New York.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition “A Conversation with the World,” has been widely disseminated by Light Work in Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...
. “A Conversation with the World,” was conceived by Graham and photographer Kevin Martin in 1986. The project combines elements of social anthropology and fine art as it utilizes an interview component to engage participants who sit for a large format 4”x5” portrait made using polaroid type 55 positive/negative film. Graham was documented using this process in Houston, Texas at Rick Lowe’s Project Row Houses in artist Round 19. “A Conversation with the World,” has been conducted and exhibited in “A Conversation with the World,” San Francisco. He was commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission to do the public art project that was installed at the San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall, re-opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917. The structure's dome is the fifth largest in the world...
and exhibited in public spaces around the city. The project was commissioned and presented in Calgary, Alberta, Eatonville, Florida and Oulu, Finland. In 2005 he was awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation , headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for the Arts . Founded in 1979, MAAF works to "promote and support multi-state arts programming"...
Artists in Communities Grant under the auspices of The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to produce “A Conversation at the Table.” This project invited over 50 artists and four arts organizations to collaborate on a project based on essential aspects of humanity. The project was completed and presented in 2006.
The Queens Museum in New York also commissioned him to produce an international garden project as part of their “Down the Garden Path” exhibition presented in 2005. Other exhibitions include an exhibition of photographs at Goethe Institute, Accra
Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...
Ghana. La Maison de Etat-Unis, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
produced a full scale reproduction of one of the educational galleries he photographed for the Barnes Foundation Graham has shown at the Toyota City Museum in Aichi, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Graham has exhibited a room sized installation at the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
in Washington, DC. Grahams work is included in the permanent collections of the Addison Gallery for American Art in Andover, MA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia, PA.
In 2005 he collaborated with MacArthur Fellow, Deborah Willis
Deborah Willis
Deborah Willis is a contemporary African American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among other awards and honors she has received, she was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow...
on “Framing the Diaspora” with which resulted in an international conference of artists, photographers, and filmmakers held in Accra, Ghana.
External links
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