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Sep 3, 20201 min read
Sheila Pree Bright: Art & Activism
Conversation with Creativelive.com a brand new episode of 'We are Photographers podcast. Click here to watch.
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Aug 14, 20201 min read
Activism Through Photographs: Sheila Pree Bright, Steve Schapiro Display Works Side by Side at Jack
Alicia Garza, founder of the international Black Lives Matter movement, has said "the civil rights movement was not one period in history...
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Jun 29, 20201 min read
BuzzFeed News
An Intimate Look At the Activists Involved In The Black Lives Matter Movement #1960Now series featured in BuzzFeednews "It took...
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Jun 11, 20201 min read
THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE
THE ENDLESS CALL "Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain seeking a home...
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Dec 28, 20191 min read
Carved In Stone
My photo essay, 'Carved In Stone' in The Washington Post Magazine, 'Visualizing Racism.' ©2019 Sheila Pree Bright
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Nov 20, 20191 min read
Art, Activism & The Legacy of Tamir Rice
Honored to attend the 5th-anniversary legacy luncheon of Tamir Rice. On November 22, 2014, Tamir a 12-year old African-American, was...
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Oct 23, 20191 min read
Visual Literacy: Seeing, Making, and Reading Images across the Disciplines Peter Wall Institute Inte
I had a great time at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver as a keynote speaker, participating in the Visual Literacy...
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Oct 3, 20191 min read
The Black Aesthetic in the Visual Arts
Had a great time at the University of California, Santa Barbara as speaker and portfolio reviewer with the MFA students ! Photo with...
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Sep 4, 20191 min read
The New American Homeless
Glad I had the opportunity to work with writer Brian Goldstone for the New Republic Magazine about the ”working homeless.” “If the term...
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Apr 26, 20191 min read
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop Documenting the Rise of a Cultural Phenonmenon
The rapper Scarface image is featured in the exhibition; I photographed in the 90s. The exhibition is celebrating the photographers who...
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Feb 5, 20191 min read
Honoring Black Mothers Who Lost Their Sons to Police Bruality.
I'm honored to reveal the 'Mothers March On' mural whose children have died at the hands of the police along with the iconic photographer...
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Jan 16, 20191 min read
Sheila Pree Bright's Human Rights History Lesson
"Her goal is to foster better understanding—between old and young, black and white, viewers and subjects—“because we really don’t know...
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Dec 28, 20181 min read
#1960Nowthebook Review 'Decades of The Fight For Equality Ignite A New Generation of Civil Right
#1960Nowthebook review by Kelly Caminero in as we end the year in 2018. "The #1960Now project critically inspects the integration of...
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Dec 19, 20181 min read
#1960Nowthebook review by Feature Shoot.
'Honoring Those Who Give Their Lives to Fight the Power, in Photos' by Miss Rosen.
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Dec 13, 20181 min read
#1960Nowthebook Signing at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
I was a Working Artist Project Fellow 2015/2016 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta. #1960Now premier at the Museum...
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Dec 12, 20180 min read
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Dec 4, 20181 min read
#1960Nowthebook at Dekalb Academy of Tech & Env Elementary & Middle Charter Schools Inc
It was an honor to share the #1960Now series with the students at Dekalb Academy of Tech & Env Elementary & Middle Charter School in...
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Nov 12, 20181 min read
In Conversation with Professor Bridget Cooks Cumbo at The University of California, Irvine
Heading to the University of Californa, Irvine this week for #1960Nowthebook signing and conversation with Professor Bridget Cooks Cumbo,...
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Oct 24, 20181 min read
'Radical Len' Artist Talk at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Thursday, October 25th, at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum I will speak upon how I became an artist and why the #1960Now series is...
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