A Choice of Weapons, Honor and Dignity

Update March 23: Due to ongoing COVID-19 response, the M is closed to the public. Some programming may move online. See the M website for more details.


This exhibition includes photographs that document expressions of dignity, honor, hope, and love in the African-American community by two towering photographers. 

Featured works include Gordon Parks’s astonishing images from the Jim Crow-era through the civil rights movement, and photographs by Brooklyn-based artist Jamel Shabazz, who has followed in Parks’s footsteps from the 1980s to the present day. 

In Conversation: Artist Jamel Shabazz and Curator Robin Hickman-Winfield
 Hickman-Winfield and Shabazz will discuss the deep bond they developed over their shared commitment to social justice, the empowerment of Black youth, and the healing power of art. This artist talk is FREE, but please RSVP.
 

More Upcoming Events Associated with this Exhibition
 

Curator Tour
IN MEMORY OF GORDON PARKS, led by Curator Robin Hickman-Winfield
Saturday, March 7, 1:00 p.m.
Free, but please RSVP.
Commemorate the anniversary of the death of legendary photographer Gordon Parks with a tour of A Choice of Weapons, Honor and Dignity with Robin HIckman-Winfield, exhibition curator and great-niece of Gordon Parks.
 

Artist Talk - CANCELLED
DEN-ZELL GILLARD
Saturday, April 4, 1:00 p.m.
Free, but please RSVP.
Minneapolis-based documentarian Den-Zell Gilliard will discuss the influence of Gordon Parks on his practice. From Parks, he inherited a belief that photography can serve as a weapon against racism. Gilliard will talk about the photographs on view in the M's Alley Gallery, which he selected to respond to the M's exhibition, A Choice of Weapons.