“FRAMING BEAUTY” : AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS
BY
DEBORAH WILLIS
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, MARCH 9
6:30 TO 9:00 PM
International Visions Gallery
2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20008
Deb Willis is a contemporary artist, photographer, curator, photographic historian, author, and educator. Named among the 100 Most Important People in Photography by American Photography Magazine, Dr. Deb Willis is one of the nation’s leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture.
Deb is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow (aka the Genius Grant), a 2005 Guggenheim
and Fletcher Fellow, and a 1996 Recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award . Deb Willis is also Chair and Professor of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she holds an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies.