About This Event
Opening Reception for CPW's Fall 2025 Exhibitions
You are cordially invited to the opening reception for our Fall 2025 exhibitions. Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 5-8 PM, in CPW's galleries at 25 Dederick Street.
Everyday Culture: Seven Projects by Documentary Arts
Since 1985, the pioneering arts organization Documentary Arts has presented new perspectives on historical issues and diverse cultures. Exploring topics as varied as tattooing, blues music, border culture, and community photography, these seven projects by Documentary Arts investigate the place of art and creative expression in everyday life.
Curated by CPW Executive Director Brian Wallis.
Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive
Black community photographers in Texas in the 1950s and ‘60s recorded daily life in their segregated towns and urban neighborhoods: family portraits, school graduations, religious ceremonies, and other everyday achievements. These photographs comprise a remarkable collective self-representation, revealing a vibrant and self-sufficient Black culture during the Civil Rights era, amid a wider context of entrenched racial and political oppression.
Curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood.
Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me
Through richly detailed black-and-white imagery and newly commissioned color photographs, Rahim Fortune interrogates American identity, exploring histories embedded in the landscapes of Texas and Oklahoma, observing the deep connections between the families and the land they inhabit, and engaging with local communities and the traditions they carry forward.
Community Gallery: In Common Practice
This Community Gallery exhibition celebrates the work of participants from two vibrant CPW artistic communities: Lesly Deschler Canossi's Monthly Crit Group and the Project Salon led by Charles Purvis. Both programs embody the artists' ongoing commitment to developing their work and craft in collaboration with fellow creators through conversation and inquiry.
Top photo: Rahim Fortune. Prairie View Homecoming Parade, Prairie View, Texas, 2024. Courtesy Sasha Wolf Projects, New York.
About This Event
Opening Reception for CPW's Fall 2025 Exhibitions
You are cordially invited to the opening reception for our Fall 2025 exhibitions. Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 5-8 PM, in CPW's galleries at 25 Dederick Street.
Everyday Culture: Seven Projects by Documentary Arts
Since 1985, the pioneering arts organization Documentary Arts has presented new perspectives on historical issues and diverse cultures. Exploring topics as varied as tattooing, blues music, border culture, and community photography, these seven projects by Documentary Arts investigate the place of art and creative expression in everyday life.
Curated by CPW Executive Director Brian Wallis.
Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive
Black community photographers in Texas in the 1950s and ‘60s recorded daily life in their segregated towns and urban neighborhoods: family portraits, school graduations, religious ceremonies, and other everyday achievements. These photographs comprise a remarkable collective self-representation, revealing a vibrant and self-sufficient Black culture during the Civil Rights era, amid a wider context of entrenched racial and political oppression.
Curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood.
Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me
Through richly detailed black-and-white imagery and newly commissioned color photographs, Rahim Fortune interrogates American identity, exploring histories embedded in the landscapes of Texas and Oklahoma, observing the deep connections between the families and the land they inhabit, and engaging with local communities and the traditions they carry forward.
Community Gallery: In Common Practice
This Community Gallery exhibition celebrates the work of participants from two vibrant CPW artistic communities: Lesly Deschler Canossi's Monthly Crit Group and the Project Salon led by Charles Purvis. Both programs embody the artists' ongoing commitment to developing their work and craft in collaboration with fellow creators through conversation and inquiry.
Top photo: Rahim Fortune. Prairie View Homecoming Parade, Prairie View, Texas, 2024. Courtesy Sasha Wolf Projects, New York.