Blog/Updates
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Recent Acquisition & Interview | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
2021-04-08 05:37:11 UTCAaron Turner: An Interview by Jessica D. Brier, Ph.D., Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Photography Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College The Ongoing Moment: Recent Acquisitions of Photography at the Loeb March 13 - June 27, 2021 -
Smithsonian Magazine Cover & Opening Illustrations | April 2021 Issue | Tulsa 1921
2021-03-23 15:13:38 UTCSmithsonian Magazine Cover & Opening Illustrations | April 2021 Issue | Tulsa 1921THE PROMISE OF OKLAHOMA, How the push for statehood led a beacon of racial progress to oppression and violence BY VICTOR LUCKERSON
AMERICAN TERROR, A century ago in Tulsa, a murderous mob attacked the most prosperous black…
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Commission: The Atlantic Cover, March 2021 Issue
2021-02-28 15:03:49 UTCThe Atlantic, March 2021 Cover Thank you Christine Walsh , Luise Stauss, and Emily Jan for this opportunity! Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past. by Clint Smith
Photograph by Aaron Turner; archival image from Library of…
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Podcast: The Careful Photograph Ep. 2
2021-02-28 14:55:00 UTCThank you Tarrah Krajnak for inviting me to be a guest on The Careful Photograph podcast SpotifyIn this episode, we sit down with photographer Aaron Turner to discuss The joy of Roquemore #2 from the series Black alchemy: there may still be time left (2020). Aaron Turner’s series Black…
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Book - TIS03: Black Alchemy: if this one thing is true
2021-02-27 17:17:41 UTCTIS Books For TIS03 - the third installment of the TIS multi-artist series - we’ve taken advantage of this eventful time in history to expand beyond the TIS collective and include new friends and fresh outlooks.Social and political upheaval, a tumultuous election, and a crippling pandemic that’s forced the…
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In conversation w/Sonja Thomsen | Feb 27th, 2021 @ 12CST
2021-02-23 01:31:00 UTCSaturday, February 27 at 12pm CST Collaborative Conversations: Sonja Thomsen & Aaron Turner, a visual conversation on anewnothing https://saic-edu.zoom.us/j/81180780491 YOU WILL FIND IT WHERE IT IS: A READER©Sonja Thomsen
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Interview: F-Stop Magazine
2021-02-01 16:58:24 UTCThank you to Christy Karpinski, editor at F-Stop Magazine for the invite to be the featured photographer for their The Constructed Image issue. Also thank you to Cary Benbow, staff writer at F-Stop Magazine for conducting the interview with me. Feature: https://www.fstopmagazine.com/featured.html ; Interview: https://www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2021/02/interview-with-photographer-aaron-turner/ Interview on Medium: https://medium.com/f-stop-magazine/interview-with-photographer-aaron-turner-bad573cc9964
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Commission: New York Times
2021-02-01 00:22:29 UTCDo We Ask Too Much of Black Heroes? Every year for a month, we celebrate the heroes of Black history. But these stories can obscure how change happens and who gets left behind. Words by Imani Perry
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2020 Artist 3 60 Grant
2021-02-01 00:18:22 UTChttps://artists360.art/artists-2020/ Thank you to the Mid-American Arts Alliance for recently awarding me a 2020 Artist 360 Grant for my project Yesterday Once More!
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Art for the Isolated w/Daoone Huff
2021-02-01 00:12:03 UTChttps://www.artfortheisolated.org/ Art for the Isolated is an expanding and diverse collective of artists and poets who are creating generative dialogue between text and images. The resulting pairings are printed in the form of postcards and given to hospitals to be distributed to isolated patients and caregivers across the country. Participating…