Speakers
- Lewis Watts
- UC Santa Cruz, Professor Emeritus
Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist/curator and Professor Emeritus of Art at UC Santa Cruz His research and artwork centers around the “cultural landscape” and those who occupy it, primarily in communities in the African diaspora. He is the author of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era” Chronicle Books 2006, Heyday Books 2020 and “New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition” UC Press 2013. His work has been exhibited at and is in the collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Citè de La Musique, Paris France, The Berkeley Museum, Autograph London, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, The Oakland Museum of California, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase NY, The Amistad Center for Art and Culture, Hartford, Conn, Light Work, Syracuse NY, The Paul Sack Collection, Art Mill Horaždovice Czech Republic among others.