Embracing Eatonvile Jan. 20-March 18 at UMMA Off/Site celebrates Eatonville, Fla., the oldest Black incorporated town in the United States, founded in 1886 and home to the celebrated Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. The exhibition celebrates the spirit and character of Eatonville through the work of contemporary photographers Dawoud Bey, Lonnie Graham, Carrie Mae Weems and Deborah Willis, each of whom have created a new body of work for this exhibition as they explore the importance of place to individual and collective identity. The project is a collaboration with Light Work, a nonprofit gallery supporting the work of artists in photography and digital media; A Social Studies Project, an artists' collective; and the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts in Eatonville. For more information call (734) 647-0524. (Photo by Carrie Mae Weems) |