“Meet the Artist”
Brenda Ann Kenneally
October 19, 2023
Doors 5:30 pm. Artist talk 6 pm.
474 Broadway, Kingston, NY
On Thursday, October 19, we welcome Brenda Ann Kenneally to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. She will be discussing the origins of her Upstate Girls project and its evolution into her current exhibition Upstate Girls to Grown Upstate: Unraveling Collar City 2004–23, currently on view at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. This extraordinary project is one of the most fully realized documentary projects to trace the roots of intergenerational, community trauma to wealth and class inequality in America. Kenneally plans to read excerpts from her book Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City, as well as from her upcoming book. This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s Youtube Page at 6 pm.
Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
About the Artist:
Brenda Ann Kenneally is a multi-media documentary maker, Guggenheim Fellow, and activist whose visceral, long-form projects have broadened the humanistic scope of the documentary form. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Kenneally has won several major awards, including the The W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, a Soros Criminal Justice Fellowship, The Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award, the World Press Photo Award, a NYFA Grant, the Best of Photojournalism Award by the National Press Photographers Association, and several grants from New York State Council for The Arts.
Her 2006 book, Money, Power, Respect; Pictures of My Neighborhood (Chanel Photographics), is a decade-long look at the Brooklyn neighborhood where she and her son lived.
Her 2018 book Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City 2004–2013 (Regan Arts, 2018) sold out. Published with Regan Arts, the book powerfully captures how the paucity of social, legal, and economic opportunities straight-jacket and harm the psyches of two generations of young people growing up in Troy, NY.
Kenneally founded A Little Creative Class in 2018 to address the social, and economic obstacles that deter low-income youth from participation in the idea-based, creative economy.
Banner image credit © Brenda Ann Kenneally