Photographer talks October 25 about the role
of art in building diverse communities
MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—Award-winning photographer Bill Bamberger will give a talk about his work, "Public Art: An American Journey," on Tuesday, October 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 216 of Middlebury College's McCardell Bicentennial Hall.
For two decades Bill Bamberger has been photographing Americans and the rhythms of their daily lives. In his lecture at Middlebury, he'll discuss the role of art in building diverse communities.
His photographs have appeared in Aperture, Doubletake, and the New York Times Magazine. He has appeared as a featured guest on CBS Sunday Morning, About Books (CSPAN2), and North Carolina People with William Friday. His recent book, Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (DoubleTake-Books/Norton, 1998; text by Cathy Davidson), won the Mayflower Prize in Nonfiction and was a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Bamberger has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He is one of 56 American artists to participate in Artists and Communities: America Creates for the Millennium, the National Endowment for the Arts millennium project. His most recent work Stories of Home, an exhibition about the importance of home ownership in the lives of families and neighborhoods, appeared at the National Building Museum from December 2003 to March 2004.
Bamberger, a Morehead Scholar, earned a B.A. with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in American Studies. He lives in Mebane, North Carolina.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Offices of the Dean of the College and Institutional Diversity at Middlebury.