About this Event
Image: Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives
IN-PERSON
Exhibition Opening Reception + Program
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About the Exhibition
Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967) held friendships with artists across generations and disciplines. He forged connections between creative professionals, encouraged the work of others, and helped build a larger network of Black creatives and intellectuals responding to, and shaping, the current events of the time. One friendship began in the classroom at Atlanta University when photojournalist Griffith Davis (1923 - 1993) was a student and Hughes a visiting professor.
The photographs in The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artists in the Making offer an intimate look at Langston Hughes with students, writers, visual artists, and performers in different periods of their maturation. Davis’s photography is complemented by archival material from the Schomburg Center’s collections and letters reflecting decades of personal correspondence.
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The exhibition The Ways of Langston Hughes and its text are adapted from the traveling exhibition Griff Davis-Langston Hughes, Letters and Photographs, 1947 – 1967: A Global Friendship, originated at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ACCESSIBLILITY
ASL interpretation will be provided upon availability of interpreters. Live captioning is available for streaming programs. Additional accessibility requests can be made by e-mail [email protected].
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FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED Events are free and open to all, but due to space constraints registration is requested. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all registered seats are released regardless of registration, so we recommend that you arrive early.
GUESTS Please note that holding seats in the Langston Hughes Auditorium is strictly prohibited and there is no food or drinks allowed anywhere in the Schomburg Center.
E-TRANSPORTATION NYPL policy prohibits electric transportation devices (e.g., motorbikes, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards) from being brought into or stored at library sites for any length of time, as this is the best way to keep our spaces & people safe.
AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.
PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at [email protected].
Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, United States
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