Sarah Lewis
Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Founder, The Vision & Justice Project
Sarah Lewis is an associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University, and founder of The Vision and Justice Project. Her research focuses on the intersection of visual representation, racial justice, and democracy in America. Lewis authored The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery and Carrie Mae Weems, which won the 2021 Photography Network Book Prize, and guest edited the “Vision and Justice” issue of Aperture magazine, which received the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research. A former curator at MoMA and the Tate Modern in London, her board service includes Thames and Hudson, Creative Time, Harvard Design Press, and Civil War History journal.
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Is a thing of beauty, as Keats wrote, “a joy forever?” Or is it, as in the view of Camus, “unbearable”? The precise nature of beauty and how to understand its role in our live...
For more than three decades, artist Carrie Mae Weems has created a body of work — including photographs, fabric, text, audio, and video — that probes the fault lines of race,...
How do we “read” a photograph? What is the relationship between art production, culture, and justice? And how can photography, which has been used to shape notions of racial i...
Art historian Sarah Lewis (Harvard University) and architect Michael Murphy (MASS Design Group) discuss the art and architecture of social justice in America. How do our artis...
“Truth,” wrote Frederick Douglass, “belongs, like the earth, to all the earth’s inhabitants.” In the search for truth, how do storytellers of all types “pay honor to the full...