Art Ed Central: Gordon Parks

About this event

Overview Designed for art educators This month’s workshop connects to the upcoming exhibition, Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come. Participants will hear about the upcoming ArtWorks Community Gallery exhibition call and engage in a lesson that combines portraiture and creative writing. This program is free to all. Space is limited and registration is required. For more information, please email Elisabeth Palmer at epalmer@mmfa.org. Register Here This Month’s Instructor: Emily Thomas MMFA Manager of Learning + Programs Above: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, In their home outside Algiers, Parks photographed Cleaver and his wife Kathleen beneath a picture of Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, who is now in prison for manslaughter, from the series Black Panthers: The Hard Edge of Confrontation, 1970, printed 2017, chromogenic print, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation; Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Muhammad Ali, 1966, printed 2017, gelatin silver print, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation Images courtesy of and copyrighted by The Gordon Parks Foundation. Related Programs + Events