Sunday, November 16: 4:30 pm

Deborah Willis, photographer and historian of African American photography at New York University, and Lonnie Graham, photographer and professor of fine art at Penn State University, present photographs from Embracing Eatonville, their 2003 collection of images of the United States' first all-Black municipality and childhood home of Harlem Renaissance author and accomplished anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Elaine Charnov, director, Education, Exhibitions and Programs at the New York Public Library, presents orphan archival footage from Hurston's fieldwork, tells of their discovery, and discusses some of the author's pioneering work as an early ethnographic filmmaker.
Multi-media presentation and panel discussion.