The Haggerty Art Museum is hosting a gallery talk by Bill Tennessen about his exhibit of photos at the museum titled: ‘Dynamic Range: Photographs by Bill Tennessen,’ at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, February 21, at the art museum. This talk is free and open to the public. The Haggerty is located on the campus of Marquette University.
Dynamic Range includes 50 photographs by Tennessen that highlight Milwaukee’s Black community from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
The exhibition was curated by Lynne Shumow (Haggerty Museum Curator for Academic Engagement) in collaboration with Dr. Robert Smith (Marquette University Harry G. John Professor of History and Director of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching and Outreach—CURTO) and Mia Phifer (Education and Research Coordinator at America’s Black Holocaust Museum).
Additional assistance was provided by Kate Rose, Caroline Bielski, Sebastien Brown, Sophia Furman, Logan Glembin, Niktalia Jules, and Adamali De La Cruz.
Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Marquette University Women’s Council Endowment Fund.
Image at top: Bill Tennessen, American, b. 1934, Jimmy Carter at Milwaukee’s Habitat for Humanity, 1989, 8 x 10 inches, Silver nitrate print, Collection of the artist courtesy of Charlie Tennessen
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