Join us for a Scholl Lecture Series, presented by Goldman Sachs, featuring world-renowned photographer Marilyn Nance. Across the past five decades, Nance has produced photographs of unique moments in the cultural history of the United States and the African Diaspora.
Serving as a photographer for the U.S. delegation of the FESTAC 77, also known as the Second World Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria, Nance produces a very comprehensive photographic account of the festival and recently published her documentation of it, Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos.
About Marilyn Nance
Over the course of five decades, Marilyn Nance has produced photographs of unique moments in the cultural history of the U.S. and the African Diaspora, culminating in an archive of images of late-twentieth-century African American life. A two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography, Nance is a recipient of the 2022 Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Grant and 2023 New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artists Grant. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), and the Library of Congress. She has work published in The World History of Photography, History of Women in Photography, and The Black Photographers Annual.
While serving as the photographer for the US delegation of the FESTAC 77, Nance made one of the most comprehensive photographic accounts of the Second World Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture. In 2022, she published Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos, a focused study of Nance through an archival encounter with her documentation of FESTAC 77.
