Behold the Land with Sheila Pree Bright
Behold the Land with Sheila Pree Bright
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, October 19th, at 7 pm ET
As a photographic artist, Sheila Pree Bright makes stunning and deeply moving photographs that create contemporary stories about social, political, and historical contexts not often seen in traditional media and fine art platforms. Interested in the lives of individuals and communities that are often unseen in the world, she captures images that allow us to experience those who are unheard as they contemplate or voice their reactions to ideas and issues shaping their world.
This week’s host, Raymond Thompson Jr., will speak with Sheila Pree Bright about her recent work Behold the Land, inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois. Behold the Land focuses on the Southern landscape, where she encounters personhood and spirit in the presence of the land. As she travels across her home state of Georgia, she is guided on a journey through sites of generational trauma and into a future rooted in joy.
Behold the Land was featured in Emergence Magazine.
Sheila Pree Bright is an International Photographic Artist and author of #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests. She portrays large-scale works that combine a broad range of knowledge of contemporary culture and is known for her series #1960Now, Suburbia, Plastic Bodies, and Young Americans.
Her work is included in the book and exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture. And she appeared in the 2014 feature-length documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. She also appeared in a 2016 feature-length documentary film Election Day: Lens Across America on the television network Epix. Her series has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Museum, Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; The Lecia Gallery, NY; The International Center of Photography, New York; Turner Contemporary, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. Her work is featured in the Washington Post and The New York Times.
Bright is the recipient of several nominations and awards; recently, she was awarded the Picturing South commission from the High Museum of Art. The AfterMath and Artadia grants. Also, her body of work is included in numerous private and public collections, to name a few; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; University of California, Santa Barbar; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Gainesville, FL; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL and CA; Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA.
Sheila Pree Bright
Sheila Pree Bright
Sheila Pree Bright
