The Breedlove Readers Book Club is partnering with the 黑料不打烊 Art Museum to offer a unique literary arts experience for middle and high school girls throughout Central New York in Fall 2024.
Directed by School of Education Professor , Breedlove Readers encourages girls ages 13 through 17 to celebrate black girl stories through reading, writing and creating in the community.
For the , the club will explore ideas around identity and coming-of-age, two themes that the Art Museum addresses in its latest exhibition, “.”
Book club participants will read a novel that resonates with the life and works of Gordon Parks鈥攁 pioneering Black photographer, poet and musician鈥攁nd then visit the Art Museum to explore connections between the novel and his photographs.
As a photographer, Parks worked in a variety of styles, including fashion photography, celebrity portraiture and social justice subjects. Parks famously called his camera a 鈥渢ool of social consciousness鈥 and a 鈥渨eapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs.鈥 The exhibition includes photographs from Parks鈥 full body of work, which spans decades of his career.
About the Breedlove Readers Fall 2024 Program
