Fruition’s View: A Conversation with Jacob Webster
When:
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024 6:00p -
7:30p
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024 6:00p -
7:30p
Where:
Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
808 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences, Photoworthy, University
The BU Arts Initiative is excited to bring renowned photographer Jacob Webster to Boston University. This conversation will explore Webster's journey to becoming a photographer and how his experiences have shaped his story. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Alisa Prince, scholar, artist, and curator of visual arts and artifacts of the Black diaspora.
Jacob Webster is a freelance creative director and photographer with a decade of experience specializing in beauty and fashion photography. As a self-taught artist, Jacob embodies creativity, authenticity, and resilience. Working at the intersection of beauty, fashion, and culture, Jacob helps millennial creatives find their voice through image and content creation.
https://www.jpwclients.com/about
Dr. Alisa Victoria Prince is a scholar, artist, and curator of visual arts and artifacts of the Black diaspora. Her work focuses on the history of photography, the roles of race and gender in identity construction, Black Feminist traditions, archival theory, and artistic forms of resistance. Her dissertation takes up vernacular photographs of Black people, particularly those with origins in the family album, and explores the forms of value to which they are subject in different spaces. She has taught courses on Black identity, feminism, photography, and cultural capital and serves on the Editorial Board of InVisible Culture, a journal for visual culture. From 2021-2022 she jointly held the Henry Luce/American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in American Art and the Chester Dale Fellowship in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
https://www.bu.edu/cas/profile/alisa-prince/
