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Join us on Thursday February 6th, from 6-8pm. RCWMS Artist in Residence MJ Sharp will give an online artist talk reflecting on her twenty years of photographing at night.
The talk is in conjunction with her upcoming Nightscapes show on view at Craven Allen Gallery in Durham from February 8th — March 1st, with an opening reception on Saturday night, February 8th from 5-7pm. MJ is delighted to welcome several colleagues as commentators during the online talk. Each leader for the discussion were invaluable advisors and collaborators as the original nocturnal images of prehistoric sites in the UK (during her Fulbright Scholar year) became the Disappearing Darkness projections that were first workshopped at the Fruit in Durham during the 2023 Click!Photography Festival. The images were later installed at the College of Wooster Art Museum in Ohio during the fall semester of 2024.
The Nightscapes show is presenting them in printed form for the first time, along with other new work from the past several years.
Leaders: Dr. Elizabeth Howie (Professor of Art History, Coastal Carolina University), Dr. Ellen C. Raimond (Associate Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Nasher Museum), Dr. Marianne Wardle (Director and Curator of the College of Wooster Art Museum), and Dr. Elizabeth Johnson (Executive Director, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania).