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Keith Carter, an internationally known photographer, will present his work at SUNY Fredonia as part of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media’s Visiting Artists Program. The presentation will be held Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8:30 p.m. in 209 McEwen Hall. It is open to all students as well as the general public.
Mr. Carter has been a member of the faculty of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, since 1987. He holds the university’s first endowed chair, the Homer L. Walles Chair in Visual and Performing Arts, and has received Lamar’s highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award.
He released his 11th book, “Fireflies,” in 2010, and has received two national endowments: the Arts Regional Survey Grant and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University.
He has been the featured art portfolio on “CBS Sunday Morning” and was called “a poet of the ordinary” by the Los Angeles Times.
Carter’s exhibits have been widely featured in the U.S. as well as Europe and Latin America. His photographs are on permanent display in the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Southwest Texas State University.
To learn more, contact Professor Stephen Komp of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media at 716-673-3650 or komp@fredonia.edu.
