exhibition Archives - Harvesting my life https://ernestlowe.com/tag/exhibition/ Six decades of Ernest Lowe's offerings to the world Sun, 30 Aug 2020 19:28:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Black Migrants Exhibition https://ernestlowe.com/black-migrants/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:50:18 +0000 http://ernestlowe.com/?p=1350 Black Migrants is an exhibition of African-American farm worker photos I took in the 1960s curated by Michele Ellis Pracy at the Fresno Art Museum.  The exhibition is now available for showing new venues.  While covering farm workers’ life, work, and union organizing in the 1960s I visited a number of African-American settlements in California’s … Continue reading Black Migrants Exhibition →

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]]> Black Migrants is an exhibition of African-American farm worker photos I took in the 1960s curated by Michele Ellis Pracy at the Fresno Art Museum.  The exhibition is now available for showing new venues. 

While covering farm workers’ life, work, and union organizing in the 1960s I visited a number of African-American settlements in California’s San Joaquin Valley. These towns are a little known part of history, the results of the rural-to-rural stream of the Great Migration out of the Jim Crow south.  more

Fresno Art Museum Director Michelle Ellis Pracy curated the exhibition.
Joel Pickford made the extraordinary prints.
Mark Arax and Michael Eissinger provided valuable background information on the history of the African-American settlements.
California Humanities Community Stories Program, Fresno Art Museum and its donors, and West of West Center for Narrative History of the Central Valley have provided funding.

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