DEVELOPMENT GRANT
Provides financial support to a series that is a work-in-progress.
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ME&EVE GRANT
Providing financial support to a woman, non-binary, or transgender photographer who is over 40.
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MULTIMEDIA AWARD
Recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media to create narrative-driven projects.
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CENTER AWARDS
Recognizing outstanding images, singular or part of a series, in three categories: Personal, Social, and Environmental.
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Published photos have made a significant impact on the public and lawmakers regarding Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, anti-war efforts, LGBTQ, and Immigrant Rights. Join CENTER and Dr. Kymberly Pinder, Dean, Yale School of Art, for The Democratic Lens Scholar Lecture What Can’t Be Unseen: Photography & Activism. This talk surveys the role of some iconic photographs in our country’s most transformative political movements for racial, gender, and class equality.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 18, 2023, from 1:30-2:30PM MT
WHERE: Hosted online through Zoom – pre-registration is required
HOW: Free & Open to the Public
Image featured in Kymberly Pinder’s essay “Images of Traumatic Histories” © Steve McQueen, Lynching Tree, from the Steve McQueen Schaulager Exhibition in 2013; Courtesy of Yale Center for British Art.
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• APRIL 18 – The Democratic Lens Lecture What Can’t Be Unseen: Photography & Activism with Dr. Kymberly Pinder | free online event
• END OF MAY – 2023 CENTER Award & Grant Winner Announcements
• JUNE 2 – NOVEMBER 4 – 2021 & 2022 Winner Exhibition Circular Solutions at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC
• MID AUGUST – 2023 Award & Grant Winner Presentations
• LATE NOVEMBER – 2023 Award & Grant Winner Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM
• NOVEMBER 16 – 19 – 22nd Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium in historic downtown Santa Fe, NM