#1960now

Sheila Pree Bright @shepreebright 📸 “Untitled 14”, from the Plastic Bodies series. We’re happy and honored to reveal our membership postcard for June! Sheila Pree Bright is an Atlanta-based, award winning American fine-art photographer known for her photographic series Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, and her most recent work, #1960now.  “Untitled 14” is from Sheila’s 2003 series “Plastic Bodies”, which shows the impact that media and advertising play in defining beauty for girls and women and how Barbie is used in Western culture to encourage one standard of beauty. Postcards have been sent out and our last batch was sent today! Feel free to tag us in photos of you with your postcards so we can share them in our stories. Also be sure to follow Sheila @shepreebright and continue to support her work! #SupportBlackArt #SheilaPreeBright #PlasticBodies #BlackWomenPhotographers #PutYourMoneyWhereYourMouthIs https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUGNtWB5id/?igshid=1i7hjtorvaob0

Acclaimed photographer Sheila Pree Bright will be at the #ICPMuseum tonight! Her work is featured in the “Black Lives (Have Always) Mattered” section of #PerpetualRevolution. http://buff.ly/2lLIClI  📷 Sheila Pree Bright, #1960Now: Art + Intersection, [Still], 2015 Video

📱📸 #ArtIsAWeapon #IGTakeover #ArtistTalk Photographic artist @shepreebright will takeover @supportblackart 's @instagram today - tune into their IG LIVE at 6PM EST. Check out Sheila's book @1960now "#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests” and her other stunning work at www.sheilapreebright.com . #SupportBlackArt #SheilaPreeBright #PhotographicArtist #photography #BlackWomenPhotographers #ATLartist #BlackPhotographers #Grillz #PlasticBodies #Suburbia #YoungAmericans #PhotoSeries #WomenArtists #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-rxBdPgWm2/?igshid=434i5sg2f5p6

My copy of @shepreebright’s book #1960nowthebook arrived in the mail today! #sheilapreebright #photographer #1960now https://www.instagram.com/p/BpDTmiOD0eN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11z6nxl3wc0zn

#Repost @spelmanmuseum ・・・ Collection Spotlight | Sheila Pree Bright, "Suburbia" Sheila Pree Bright (@shepreebright, American, b. 1967) is an Atlanta-based, award-winning fine art photographer nationally known for her photographic series Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, 1960 Who, and #1960Now. Bright is described as a “social cultural anthropologist” whose works combine a wide range of contemporary culture including photographic portrayals and provocative commentary on American beauty standards, urban and suburban themes, citizenship, and social movements. Suburbia is a nuanced and self-reflective meditation on race and class in the suburbs that focuses exclusively on the homes of African Americans. This body of work disrupts the American media’s projection of the “typical” African American community and depicts a more realistic and common ideology of African American life. Suburbia also examines the variations and similarities of an existence that subverts lifestyle and culture, particularly as it relates to Americanism. In 2006 Bright won the Santa Fe Prize from the Santa Fe Center for Photography for this extensive series. Sheila Pree Bright is currently documenting the protests and youth leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement in the series #1960Now and is incorporating the moving image and archival materials. #BlackWomenArtists #SpelMuse20 #BeYourOwnMuse #Permanent Collection Image: Sheila Pree Bright (American, b. 1967) Untitled #5, #3, #28 (from the Suburbia series), 2008, Chromogenic prints, 15 x 15 Acquisitions Initiative Purchase, 2012.2, 2012.1, 2012.9 COLLECTIONS SPOTLIGHT The Spelman College permanent collection dates to the 1940s and includes more than 350 objects. The growing collection also includes African art and works by celebrated artists of African descent. To honor its unique mission, the Museum acquires art that highlights the wide spectrum of works that women artists of the African Diaspora create. Look forward to a monthly inside peek on a work from the College’s permanent collection. (at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)

Collection Spotlight | Sheila Pree Bright, "Suburbia" Sheila Pree Bright (@shepreebright, American, b. 1967) is an Atlanta-based, award-winning fine art photographer nationally known for her photographic series Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, 1960 Who, and #1960Now. Bright is described as a “social cultural anthropologist” whose works combine a wide range of contemporary culture including photographic portrayals and provocative commentary on American beauty standards, urban and suburban themes, citizenship, and social movements. Suburbia is a nuanced and self-reflective meditation on race and class in the suburbs that focuses exclusively on the homes of African Americans. This body of work disrupts the American media’s projection of the “typical” African American community and depicts a more realistic and common ideology of African American life. Suburbia also examines the variations and similarities of an existence that subverts lifestyle and culture, particularly as it relates to Americanism. In 2006 Bright won the Santa Fe Prize from the Santa Fe Center for Photography for this extensive series. Sheila Pree Bright is currently documenting the protests and youth leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement in the series #1960Now and is incorporating the moving image and archival materials. #BlackWomenArtists #SpelMuse20 #BeYourOwnMuse #Permanent Collection Image: Sheila Pree Bright (American, b. 1967) Untitled #5, #3, #28 (from the Suburbia series), 2008, Chromogenic prints, 15 x 15 Acquisitions Initiative Purchase, 2012.2, 2012.1, 2012.9 COLLECTIONS SPOTLIGHT The Spelman College permanent collection dates to the 1940s and includes more than 350 objects. The growing collection also includes African art and works by celebrated artists of African descent. To honor its unique mission, the Museum acquires art that highlights the wide spectrum of works that women artists of the African Diaspora create. Look forward to a monthly inside peek on a work from the College’s permanent collection. (at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)

Finally met the wonderful Sheila Pree Bright @shepreebright today as we gave back to back talks to high school photography students gathered by @johnedwinmason at @look3festival. Here, Sheila describes her exhibition #1960Now which "examines race, gender, and generational divides to raise awareness of millennial perspectives on civil and human rights." @everydayblackamerica #everydayblackamerica #everydayeverywhere

Sheila Pree Bright discussed her series, #1960Now at the #SayHerName panel presented at NYU Tisch School of the Arts on Dec. 12, receiving some shine in American Photo Magazine, @americanphotomag. See her protest footage in Art + Intersections by visiting the link in my profile bio. ☝🏾️ From the desk of the Cultural Producer. (Photo courtesy of NYC) (at NYU Tisch School of the Arts)