Sun March 12, 2023
Gillian Laub and Maya Benton in Conversation: The Art of Visual Activism
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Photographer Gillian Laub, whose exhibition "Gillian Laub: Family Matters" is currently on view at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, will join curator Maya Benton to explore two decades of Laub's work and what it means to be an artist in this moment of increasingly polarizing politics and rising antisemitism.
Set against the backdrop of Laub's powerful exhibition, the conversation will explore the ways in which Laub combines her personal identity with her work as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist. Her work interrogates areas of societal conflict and tension to prompt conversation and connection with her viewers. This conversation will include discussion of her work "Testimony," documenting the lives of Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in Palestine and Israel; "Southern Rites," her long-term project about adolescents grappling with the legacy of segregation and racially-motivated violence in the American south; and Laub's iconic images of public figures, from LeBron James to Dolly Parton.
Laub and Benton will examine what is at stake in our present moment, and what we can do to ensure a thriving future for Jewish voices and perspectives.
This program is presented in partnership with Reboot and supported by the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund.
Free with Museum admission ($16 general admission).
Presented by Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Set against the backdrop of Laub's powerful exhibition, the conversation will explore the ways in which Laub combines her personal identity with her work as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist. Her work interrogates areas of societal conflict and tension to prompt conversation and connection with her viewers. This conversation will include discussion of her work "Testimony," documenting the lives of Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in Palestine and Israel; "Southern Rites," her long-term project about adolescents grappling with the legacy of segregation and racially-motivated violence in the American south; and Laub's iconic images of public figures, from LeBron James to Dolly Parton.
Laub and Benton will examine what is at stake in our present moment, and what we can do to ensure a thriving future for Jewish voices and perspectives.
This program is presented in partnership with Reboot and supported by the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund.
Free with Museum admission ($16 general admission).
Presented by Contemporary Jewish Museum
Photographer Gillian Laub, whose exhibition "Gillian Laub: Family Matters" is currently on view at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, will join curator Maya Benton to explore two decades of Laub's work and what it means to be an artist in this moment of increasingly polarizing politics and rising antisemitism.
Set against the backdrop of Laub's powerful exhibition, the conversation will explore the ways in which Laub combines her personal identity with her work as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist. Her work interrogates areas of societal conflict and tension to prompt conversation and connection with her viewers. This conversation will include discussion of her work "Testimony," documenting the lives of Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in Palestine and Israel; "Southern Rites," her long-term project about adolescents grappling with the legacy of segregation and racially-motivated violence in the American south; and Laub's iconic images of public figures, from LeBron James to Dolly Parton.
Laub and Benton will examine what is at stake in our present moment, and what we can do to ensure a thriving future for Jewish voices and perspectives.
This program is presented in partnership with Reboot and supported by the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund.
Free with Museum admission ($16 general admission).
Presented by Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Set against the backdrop of Laub's powerful exhibition, the conversation will explore the ways in which Laub combines her personal identity with her work as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist. Her work interrogates areas of societal conflict and tension to prompt conversation and connection with her viewers. This conversation will include discussion of her work "Testimony," documenting the lives of Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in Palestine and Israel; "Southern Rites," her long-term project about adolescents grappling with the legacy of segregation and racially-motivated violence in the American south; and Laub's iconic images of public figures, from LeBron James to Dolly Parton.
Laub and Benton will examine what is at stake in our present moment, and what we can do to ensure a thriving future for Jewish voices and perspectives.
This program is presented in partnership with Reboot and supported by the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund.
Free with Museum admission ($16 general admission).
Presented by Contemporary Jewish Museum
show less
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