VIRTUAL EVENT
TYLER MITCHELL AND DEBORAH WILLIS IN CONVERSATION

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2021.
6:00p ET.

The Gordon Parks Foundation presents Tyler Mitchell: An Imaginative Arrangement of the Things Before Me, an exhibition of new works by artist Tyler Mitchell, a 2020 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow, curated by Deborah Willis. Mitchell is known for his images that reflect and celebrate the vast beauty and intimacies of Black American life. Inspired by Gordon Parks’s photographs of Black families, Mitchell’s work constructs distinctive stories that reframe the notion of home as a center of Black life. Taking as a starting point private and public archives of family photographs, and engaging material references such as antique frames, carpet, upholstery, and porcelain plates that evoke domestic spaces, Mitchell has created a new series of images and a site-specific installation. By merging private memories with public narratives, he reimagines the collective histories of the African Diaspora and Black migration as a family portrait.

Join us for a live conversation between artist Tyler Mitchell and historian, author, educator, and artist Deborah Willis, followed by a Q&A.

To watch the conversation, click here