Artist Aaron Turner to Present Work

RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome artist Aaron Turner, who is presenting on his work at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, in Gannett Hall, room 2155. All are invited to attend this special presentation.  Aaron Turner is a research fellow in photography and coordinator of the Center for Photographers of Color at the University of Arkansas School of Art. Turner received his MFA in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, an MA in Visual Communications from Ohio University and holds a BA in Journalism and Fine Arts from the University of Memphis. He uses photography to pursue personal stories of family and resilience, in two main areas of the U.S., the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas. Aaron also uses the 4x5 view camera to create still life studies on the topics of race, history, blackness as material and the role of the black artist. His work has been exhibited at Vassar College , the Houston Center for Photography, SUNY Buffalo State, SlowExposures Photo Festival, Click! Photo Festival, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. His awards include participation in The New York Times Portfolio Review, a 2018 Light Work Artists-in-Residence , a 2019 En Foco Photography Fellowship and a 2019 Adolf Fassbender Travel Award from the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) - at the University of Arizona.