‘Full of Grace’ Discussion, Reception Highlights Exhibit Opening in Delaware
Ray Merritt, author of the book “Full of Grace” and curator of the acclaimed photography exhibit of the same name, will moderator a panel discussion about the show and then attend an exhibit reception at Ohio Wesleyan University in historic Delaware, Ohio, on Thursday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m.
[/media-credit] : The “Full of Grace” photography exhibit, now on display at Ohio Wesleyan University’s Richard M. Ross Art Museum, includes “Labhuben, India,” by Fazal Sheikh. This 2007 image is a carbon pigment print on Hahnemuhle archival photo rag paper and is exhibited courtesy of The Cohen Family Collection.
The panel discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 312 of the R.W. Corns Building and will be immediately followed by a reception in the Ross Art Museum. Both events are free and open to the public.
Scheduled panelists include Joe Baio, a New York art patron who loaned several images to the “Full of Grace” exhibit; Catherine Evans, photography curator for the Columbus Museum of Art; and practicing photographers/photography educators Fredrik Marsh, John Fergus-Jean, and Jeff Nilan. Marsh is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow who lecturers at The Ohio State University; Fergus-Jean teaches at Columbus College of Art & Design, and Nilan teaches at Ohio Wesleyan.
Panel moderator Merritt has authored and edited five books on photography, including” A Thousand Hounds,” “Shared Space,” and “Full of Grace.” Oprah Magazine has called the “Full of Grace” collection “dazzlingly elegant, elegiac, moving, and exhilarating. … This is childhood seen through the clear lens of curiosity, filtered with compassion and respect.”
Merritt also has served as a trustee of the photography committees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the International Center of Photography, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (all in New York), as well as the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla. His philanthropic activities include work with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the Third Millennium Fund.
“Full of Grace” will be on display in Ohio Wesleyan’s Ross Art Museum through Oct. 7. During the academic year, the museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is fully handicap-accessible and admission is always free.
The R.W. Corns Building is located at 78 South Sandusky Street and the Ross Art Museum is located at 60 South Sandusky Street in historic Delaware, Ohio.
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