The Third Annual Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture: RaMell Ross

Please join us for the third annual Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture

RaMell Ross
Toward Subjectivity

Friday November 1, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Ryerson University, School of Image Arts
122 Bond Street, room IMA-307 (third floor)
free and open to the public

RaMell Ross is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Rhode Island and Alabama. His work has appeared in places like the New York Times, Aperture, Harper’s Magazine, TIME, Oxford American, and the Walker Arts Center. He has been awarded an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and a Rhode Island Foundation MacColl Johnson artist fellowship. He recently had a solo exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York. His feature documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards, was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, and has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Hammer Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art – London, Museum of Moving Image, and Lincoln Center. RaMell double majored in English and Sociology at Georgetown University and teaches in Brown University’s Visual Art Department. Images from South County, AL (a Hale County) and new work will be displayed in a solo exhibition at the Ogden Museum in late 2020.

Trailer for Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6634646/videoplayer/vi1866054169?ref_=tt_ov_vi

More info on Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1Lu79Drh0

Contact: dkemp@ryerson.ca

The Lucy Molnar Wing lecture series is programed by faculty in the School of Image Arts, in honour of the late Lucy Molnar Wing, a friend to many in our community and a passionate supporter of film and photography. The series launched in 2017 with the American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, and continued in 2018 with award winning photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier.