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Tickets to Frazier s talk are $10 for the general public, and free for UCSB students (registration required). For tickets and more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Treating art as activism, Frazier’s body of work includes The Last Cruze, which documents the devastating effects of a GM plant closure in Lordstown, Ohio; a chronicle of the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, for Elle Magazine; and an aerial photography series depicting Memphis, Baltimore and Chicago in The Atlantic’s Martin Luther King issue.
For “Flint is Family,” “Frazier spent five months with a family encompassing three generations of women, chronicling daily life at the heart of a man-made ecological disaster. The project was a natural extension of her already well-established commitment to social justice,” The New York Times reported, noting Frazier donated the proceeds from her exhibition to help
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By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Managing Editor | @magnoli
February 2, 2021
| 7:50 p.m.
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution Tuesday recognizing February as Black History Month and this year’s national theme of The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.
“We know that Black history is American history,” said Lawanda Lyons-Pruitt, president of the Santa Maria-Lompoc NAACP.
“Black History is not just about the struggles Black families have been through, but rather it is a time of rejoicing, celebrating the accomplishments, integrity, leadership and determination and showing true character,” the resolution states. “We honor history and celebrate progress that we have made. We are resilient and resolute in creating new opportunities for future generations.”