Expanding the Walls: We Come With the Beautiful Things August 27, 2009

'Expanding the Walls: Making Connections between Photography, History and Community is an annual, seven-month, photography-based program that uses the James VanDerZee (1886-1983) archive as a springboard for conversation and art-making. The juxtaposition of the student's contemporary work with VanDerZee's timeless photographs in the exhibition illustrates the enduring relationship between photographer and subject. This year's exhibition, 'We Come with the Beautiful Things,' is comprised of twelve raw, distinct visual narratives. Using black-and-white photography as a medium, each artist has created a body of work that articulates and documents their surroundings in a cleverly threaded patchwork of unique themes.