{"id":4939,"date":"2018-03-07T20:52:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:44:15","slug":"artist-lecture-brings-1960now-to-dsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/artist-lecture-brings-1960now-to-dsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist lecture brings #1960NOW to DSC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michele Meyers
\nIn Motion Staff Writer<\/p>\n

\"Sheila
Sheila Pree Bright speaking with Ashley, Treyvon Robertson and Katy Cardinale, DSC photography students, about her portraits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sheila Pree Bright opened her artist\u2019s lecture at the Southeast Museum of Photography with the provocative statement, \u201c#1960Now started with Trayvon Martin,\u201d referring to the infamous Florida shooting of the 17-year-old by George Zimmerman.
\n\u201cI started looking at young people more and saying young people are the ones that are really going to change the room because it takes them to really start the revolution. I\u2019m talking about globally,\u201d said Bright.
\nThe artist and activist passionately answered questions presented by interviewer India Pantin, a Daytona State College photography student. Pantin was chosen by the SMP\u2019s director, James Pearson, to interview Bright for the #1960Now opening reception on Feb. 22.
\n\u201cI was just eating my lunch in the museum and James approached me and said he had an idea and asked if I would interview Sheila Bright. Of course, I was honored but, wow, I had to think about it, let it sit in my head!\u201d
\nBright refers to herself as a visual cultural producer not someone to be labeled by the media as a fine arts photographer. The discovery that young social activists\u2019 struggles today mirrored that of their parents and grandparents, led the artist to Atlanta where she found living legends of the 60s Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n

\"Sheila
Sheila Pree Bright discussing her #1960Now project with Ashley Major, a student at DSC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of them was the president of the Atlanta Student Movement, Charles Black, who brought greater understanding regarding the plight for equality in 1960 America.
\nInspired by that encounter, she has been following the Black Lives Movement ever since. In addition to Atlanta, Bright\u2019s travels took her to Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Baton Rouge, where the activists were protesting against, among other topics, police brutality.
\n\u201cI have been to everywhere and it\u2019s that same thing that I see. It\u2019s a lot of hurt and a lot of pain. The young people are tired like the young people of the 60s. I don\u2019t want to show the anger as much as I want to show the hurt and sadness,\u201d she said of her exhibition, which consists of a couple dozen photos.
\nAfter the SMP\u2019s reception, Bright was headed to Detroit, then was lecturing at the Society for Photographic Education\u2019s 55th annual conference in Philadelphia in March. Her exhibit at the SMP closes March 5.
\nBright attracted an entourage of students following the lecture. They asked technical questions regarding her photography, personal questions regarding fear and how she balances family life.
\nThe photographer was motivated to impart as much knowledge as time allowed fueling a parade of students that followed her to her exhibition upstairs, where they continued peppering her with questions.
\nIn the midst of it all, Senior Professor, Eric Breitenbach ran over to the event photographers.
\n\u201cAre you getting this? This is a historical moment! Sheila is the first African-American woman to speak at this museum,\u201d he exclaimed, emphasizing the importance of Bright as a female, an African-American artist and civil rights voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michele Meyers In Motion Staff Writer Sheila Pree Bright opened her artist\u2019s lecture at the Southeast Museum of Photography with the provocative statement, \u201c#1960Now started with Trayvon Martin,\u201d referring to the infamous Florida shooting of the 17-year-old by George Zimmerman. \u201cI started looking at young people more and saying young Continue reading Artist lecture brings #1960NOW to DSC<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4940,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/4940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}