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SUMMARY:Artist Talk and Book Signing: Lisa McCord
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in-person for an artist talk and book signing with Lisa
  McCord for her exhibition Rotan Switch\, on view in our Griffin
  Library Gallery July 31 - September 6\, 2026. 
 
 In Rotan Switch\, Lisa McCord documents life on her grandparents'
  cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its
  name from the community's central landmark - the railroad switch where
  farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta.
  Although it has not been used in years\, it remains a potent symbol of
  the complex intersections of industry and agriculture\, of racism and
  injustice. This project spans forty-five years\, from 1978 to 2021\,
  following five generations of a community. 
 
 © Lisa McCord© Lisa McCord
 
 About the artist:
 
 Lisa McCord is a fine art and documentary photographer from the
  Arkansas Delta\, who lives and works in Los Angeles and Arkansas.
  Focusing on her experiences on her family's cotton farm\, her creative
  practice explores concepts of storytelling\, memory\, and the passage
  of time. 
 
 McCord received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and earned an
  MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She also attended New York
  University\, Le Contrejour\, Paris\, and The Visual Studies Workshop\,
  Rochester\, NY. She taught photography at Pepperdine University. 
 
 Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Leica Gallery
  LA\, Slow Exposures\, Bruce Lurie Gallery\, Gallery 825\, Fabrik
  Projects\, and Memphis Cotton Museum. McCord's work has also been
  exhibited in galleries and museums\, including Annenberg Space for
  Photography\, Building Bridges Art Exchange\, Museum of Nature of
  Cantabria in Spain\, MIA Photo Fair in Milan\, and Alta Vista in
  Paris. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Arkansas Museum
  of Fine Arts and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. 
 
 Her first monograph\, Rotan Switch\, was published in 2024\, by Kehrer
  Verlag\, and was a finalist in the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Awards.
  Book signings include Paris Photo\, Photo London\, and Coston Arts
  Center\, in Arkansas. 
 
 Her work has been featured in numerous publications including The
  Guardian\, Arkansas Democratic Gazette\, AAP Magazine\, Black & White
  Photography (UK edition)\, and Float Magazine. In 2025\, she was a
  Critical Mass Top 50 with her series\, Rotan Switch.
LOCATION:Griffin Museum of Photography\, 67 Shore Road\, Winchester\, MA 01890
URL:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/artist-talk-and-book-signing-lisa-mcco
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CATEGORIES:Cultural\,Education
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