Una’s Lectures

Wendy Ewald, Una’s Lecturer 1997-1998

“The Innocent Eye” || March 31, 1998

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Wendy Ewald attended Antioch College and MIT, where she studied photography with Minor White. After teaching photography to Naskapi and MicMac Native children in Canada for several years, Ewald was sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Commission to teach photography and filmmaking to students in Whitesburg, Kentucky from 1976 to 1980. In 1982, after receiving a Fulbright fellowship, Ewald traveled to Raquira, Colombia. During her two years there, she helped transform children into young photographers. After completing a similar two-year project in Gujarat, India, in 1989, Ewald created the Literacy through Photography programs in Houston, Texas, and Durham, North Carolina. In 1996, she was a visiting associate professor at Bard College. Currently, she is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Project Director of the Literacy through Photography program.

Ewald has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts grants, and the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Visual Arts Fellowship for South Africa. In recent years, she has lectured widely through the recognition of the Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain; the Buffalo State College Distinguished Lecturer Series; and the Mondrian Foundation Commission and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Other Events with Wendy Ewald

“Learning to See: Innocence, Experience and the Photographer's Eye” || April 1, 1998

A colloquium with Ewald, Gilles Peress (author), and Wendy Lesser (The Threepenny Review).

Gallery walk-through || April 2, 1998