The Gordon Parks Foundation will mount American Family – a special exhibition featuring the works of photographer Deana Lawson (Rochester, NY) and multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams (Baltimore, MD) who were both selected as 2018 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellows earlier this year. In celebration of the exhibition, the Foundation will host an artists’ reception on Friday, October 19th from 6:00 – 8:00 PM that is free and open to the public. Both artists will attend and will sign copies of their books, which will available for purchase.

The Gordon Parks Foundation announced exhibition dates for Beneath These Restless Skies, a new interactive multimedia exhibition by British documentary photographer and 2017 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow Harriet Dedman.  The exhibition, which explores issues of identity and opportunity in West Harlem, will be on view at the Foundation’s exhibition space from February 23 through May 4, with an opening reception with the artist to be held on February 23.  The reception is free and open to the public. 
 

Opening reception for the exhibition: Thursday, February 15th from 6 – 8 PM at 524 West 24th Street. 

Opening reception for the exhibition: Thursday, January 11th from 6 – 8 PM at 524 West 24th Street. 

A Beautiful Ghetto showcases the work of photographer Devin Allen, recipient of the 2017 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship. His photographs document the landscape and community of Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray. An artist reception and book signing will be held at The Gordon Parks Foundation on Friday, September 15 from 6:00 - 7:30pm. Allen’s publication A Beautiful Ghetto (Haymarket Books, 2017) will be available for sale throughout the run of the exhibition.

Art Basel is an annual art event that brings together the work of over 4,000 artists from around the world. The week-long festival features exhibitions from 291 galleries, including Jenkins Johnson Gallery from San Francisco, which will be showing work by Gordon Parks.

The event is open to the public 11am-7pm, Thursday, June 15 through Sunday, June 18.

The Gordon Parks Foundation is pleased to announce a group exhibition Fifty Years After: Gordon Parks, Mickalene Thomas and LaToya Ruby Frazier. It has been fifty years since the Civil Rights movement and since Gordon Parks’ remarkable photographs opened the door for successive generations of black photographers.  At our opening reception, LaToya Ruby Frazier will be participating in a discussion about her work as well as signing her book The Notion of Family, which will also be available for sale. The reception will take place on October 28th from 6:00-8:00pm.

The Gordon Parks Foundation visited Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square in celebration of the Foundation’s 10th anniversary Awards Dinner and Auction. The event will be held on Tuesday, May 24 at Cipriani 42nd Street.  In honor of the occasion, board member and event co-chair Alexander Soros rang the opening Bell. During the hour of the opening Bell, iconic Gordon Parks photographs were broadcast across Times Square on the Nasdaq Tower and Marquee as well as photos taken during live during the ceremony.

The Dean Collection presented No Commission, a three day art and concert series in Miami, Florida from December 3- 5. The Gordon Parks Foundation was pleased to take part in this event, where we offered publications for sale, as well as free posters featuring Gordon Parks' iconic works.The fair was free and open to the public from 11-8.

During the week of October 19 Steidl took over the Strand Book Store to present new books, stage talks and book signings. Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Executive Director of The Gordon Parks Foundation, spoke about the pertinence of Gordon Parks’ work today, and the making of several Gordon Parks books with Steidl.

The opening celebration of the Gordon Parks Arts Hall at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools was held over the weekend of October 2, 2015. The Gordon Parks Arts Hall, recently opened on the schools’ historic Hyde Park campus, will support programs in theater, music and the visual arts with new performance halls, studios, rehearsal and practice rooms, a digital media lab, and more.

CBS visited the Gordon Parks Foundation in Pleasantville, New York to feature Gordon Parks' Segregation Story. The CBS This Morning Saturday special aired on June 13, 2015.

The Gordon Parks Foundation recognized a special guest at the 2015 gala. Barbara Wilkerson Bailey was photographed by Gordon Parks in 1950.

The Gordon Parks Foundation celebrated its Grand Opening on May 15, 2015 in Pleasantville, New York.

Jackson Fine Art and The Gordon Parks Foundation Gordon Parks: Segregation Story book party hosted by Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help. Special guests included Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Maurice Berger.

We are pleased to announce that The Gordon Parks Foundation archive has moved to Pleasantville, New York! The new space allows for better access to the collection not only for researchers, but also for the public through an exhibtion center. The inaugural exhibtion Gordon Parks: Segregation Story opened in April 2015.

Dr. Roscoe Brown commanded the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II, the first unit of African American fighter pilots, famously known as the Tuskegee Airmen. In 1943, the Office of War Information assigned Gordon Parks to photograph the group during their training in Selfridge Field, Michigan.

Joanne Thornton Wilson was our Special Guest at the 2013 Gala. Gordon Parks photographed Joanne in 1956 in Mobile, Alabama as part of a Life magazine story on segregation.