MoCADA hosts "Kindred Cool: Portraits Inspired by the Jazz Friendship of Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden and Albert Murray"

Kindred Cool:

Portraits Inspired by the Jazz Friendship of Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden and Albert Murray

Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

On View: August 3 - September 14, 2008

Opening Reception:
Sunday, August 3, 3-6pm

Please join us on August 3, 2008 at 3pm for the opening reception of Kindred Cool: Portraits Inspired by the Jazz Friendship of Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden and Albert Murray.

Kindred Cool is a photography project that uses relationship between Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden and Albert Murray as an inspiration for documenting other friendships forged and fostered through a shared appreciation for jazz. Through photographic portraits, Kindred Cool serves as a visual documentary project showcasing the diversity of the jazz diaspora, that is, individuals who are inspired by American classical music: jazz. The subjects of Kindred Cool are a motley crew of jazz educators, vocalists and instrumentalists, rappers, aficionados, journalists, publicists, dancers and painters. A partial list of those photographed for Kindred Cool are Ellis Marsalis, Ladybug Mecca, Randy Weston, Mos Def, DJ Spooky, Vijay Iyer, Rhonda Ross, Brian Jackson, Farah Jasmine Griffin among many others of the 'jazz society.'

RSVP for the Kindred Cool opening reception at WWW.KINDREDCOOL.ORG.

Presented in part with the
Up South International Book Festival
www.upsouth.org

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Jazz at Lincoln Center
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ArtSpectra



Source: KindredCool