Fall 2024 RISD Photo TC Colley Lecture
Photo: Barbara Bosworth, The Meadow 2003
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, Metcalf Auditorium
Barbara Bosworth
Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely. Her single images display generous attention to detail, while her large-scale triptychs offer a panoramic perspective. All of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers that we shape nature and, in turn, are shaped by it.
Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and Peabody Essex Museum.
Her publications include Some Lights Are From Fires (Dust Collective, 2024), The Sea (Radius Books, 2022), One Star and a Dark Voyage (TIS Books, 2021), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Behold (Datz Press, 2014), and Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).
Fall 2024 RISD Photo Gary Metz Lectures
Photo: Keisha Scarville, Within/Between/Corpus (19), 2022
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, Metcalf Auditorium
Keisha Scarville
Keisha Scarville (b. Brooklyn, NY; lives Brooklyn, NY) weaves together themes dealing with transformation, place, latencies, and the elusive body. Her work has been widely exhibited, including the Studio Museum of Harlem, Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London, ICA Philadelphia,Contact Gallery in Toronto, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Arts, Lightwork Syracuse, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Higher Pictures Generation Gallery, and Baxter Street CCNY. She has participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Lightwork, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, Stoneleaf, Baxter Street CCNY, BRIC Workspace, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In addition, her work has appeared in publications including Vice, Transition, Nueva Luz, Small Axe, Oxford American, Hyperallgeric, and The New York Times where her work has also received critical review. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at the International Center of Photography and Parsons School of Design in New York.
Photo: Aspen Mays, Hugo (20), 2019, gelatin silver prints, photograms, dye, mounted on grey sintra, 26.5 x 22.375 inches
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 20 Washington Place Auditorium
Aspen Mays
Aspen Mays was raised in Charleston, SC. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Anthropology and Spanish from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Photography, Printmedia and Painting at the California College of the Arts. She is represented by Higher Pictures in New York, and recent honors include a 2021 Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mays was also a Fulbright Scholar in Santiago, Chile, where she spent time with astrophysicists using the world’s most advanced telescopes to look at the sky, an experience that has made a lasting impact on her work