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Ground Zero with Peter Turnley: A Photographer’s Presence on 9/11

Dillard Lobby Gallery, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Twenty years ago, nearly 3,000 people died due to coordinated attacks against the United States by terrorists who hijacked four passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Center buildings in New York, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. Photojournalist Peter Turnley arrived at the site of the World Trade Center — "ground zero" — at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. "I pulled up to a police barricade that was turning all cars away and showed my NATO press pass from work in Kosovo," he said. "The police looked at the pass, shrugged their shoulders, and said hesitantly, 'go ahead.'" He worked over the next 10 days, documenting the devastation and the courage of first responders and rescue workers, and the grief of families and friends of the dead.

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Into Light: Erasing the Stigma of the Disease of Drug Addiction

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Theresa Clower's son Devin died in 2018 and returning to her artistic roots helped her begin to grieve the loss of her son. Since then, she founded Into Light, a powerful art project consisting of graphite portraits and narratives intended to honor the lives of those who have died from drugs and create a forum for sharing stories, providing support, and offering education and activities that address the drug epidemic.

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Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

For over three decades, documentary photographer and activist Donna Ferrato has advocated for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights by revealing the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their children. Photographing in emergency rooms, women's shelters, courtrooms, batterers' groups, women's detention centers, and while riding along with law enforcement, Ferrato aims to expose "the dark side of family life." More importantly, Ferrato's work has ignited decades of advocacy work for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights that has helped to attract funding for domestic violence shelters nationwide and educated people on the warning signs of abuse, as well as the obstacles survivors face when trying to leave their abusers.

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Ground Zero with Peter Turnley: A Photographer’s Presence on 9/11

Dillard Lobby Gallery, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Twenty years ago, nearly 3,000 people died due to coordinated attacks against the United States by terrorists who hijacked four passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Center buildings in New York, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. Photojournalist Peter Turnley arrived at the site of the World Trade Center — "ground zero" — at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. "I pulled up to a police barricade that was turning all cars away and showed my NATO press pass from work in Kosovo," he said. "The police looked at the pass, shrugged their shoulders, and said hesitantly, 'go ahead.'" He worked over the next 10 days, documenting the devastation and the courage of first responders and rescue workers, and the grief of families and friends of the dead.

Free

Into Light: Erasing the Stigma of the Disease of Drug Addiction

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Theresa Clower's son Devin died in 2018 and returning to her artistic roots helped her begin to grieve the loss of her son. Since then, she founded Into Light, a powerful art project consisting of graphite portraits and narratives intended to honor the lives of those who have died from drugs and create a forum for sharing stories, providing support, and offering education and activities that address the drug epidemic.

Free

Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

For over three decades, documentary photographer and activist Donna Ferrato has advocated for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights by revealing the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their children. Photographing in emergency rooms, women's shelters, courtrooms, batterers' groups, women's detention centers, and while riding along with law enforcement, Ferrato aims to expose "the dark side of family life." More importantly, Ferrato's work has ignited decades of advocacy work for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights that has helped to attract funding for domestic violence shelters nationwide and educated people on the warning signs of abuse, as well as the obstacles survivors face when trying to leave their abusers.

Free

Ground Zero with Peter Turnley: A Photographer’s Presence on 9/11

Dillard Lobby Gallery, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Twenty years ago, nearly 3,000 people died due to coordinated attacks against the United States by terrorists who hijacked four passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Center buildings in New York, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. Photojournalist Peter Turnley arrived at the site of the World Trade Center — "ground zero" — at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. "I pulled up to a police barricade that was turning all cars away and showed my NATO press pass from work in Kosovo," he said. "The police looked at the pass, shrugged their shoulders, and said hesitantly, 'go ahead.'" He worked over the next 10 days, documenting the devastation and the courage of first responders and rescue workers, and the grief of families and friends of the dead.

Free

Into Light: Erasing the Stigma of the Disease of Drug Addiction

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Theresa Clower's son Devin died in 2018 and returning to her artistic roots helped her begin to grieve the loss of her son. Since then, she founded Into Light, a powerful art project consisting of graphite portraits and narratives intended to honor the lives of those who have died from drugs and create a forum for sharing stories, providing support, and offering education and activities that address the drug epidemic.

Free

Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

For over three decades, documentary photographer and activist Donna Ferrato has advocated for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights by revealing the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their children. Photographing in emergency rooms, women's shelters, courtrooms, batterers' groups, women's detention centers, and while riding along with law enforcement, Ferrato aims to expose "the dark side of family life." More importantly, Ferrato's work has ignited decades of advocacy work for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights that has helped to attract funding for domestic violence shelters nationwide and educated people on the warning signs of abuse, as well as the obstacles survivors face when trying to leave their abusers.

Free

Ground Zero with Peter Turnley: A Photographer’s Presence on 9/11

Dillard Lobby Gallery, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Twenty years ago, nearly 3,000 people died due to coordinated attacks against the United States by terrorists who hijacked four passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Center buildings in New York, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. Photojournalist Peter Turnley arrived at the site of the World Trade Center — "ground zero" — at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. "I pulled up to a police barricade that was turning all cars away and showed my NATO press pass from work in Kosovo," he said. "The police looked at the pass, shrugged their shoulders, and said hesitantly, 'go ahead.'" He worked over the next 10 days, documenting the devastation and the courage of first responders and rescue workers, and the grief of families and friends of the dead.

Free

Into Light: Erasing the Stigma of the Disease of Drug Addiction

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Theresa Clower's son Devin died in 2018 and returning to her artistic roots helped her begin to grieve the loss of her son. Since then, she founded Into Light, a powerful art project consisting of graphite portraits and narratives intended to honor the lives of those who have died from drugs and create a forum for sharing stories, providing support, and offering education and activities that address the drug epidemic.

Free

Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

For over three decades, documentary photographer and activist Donna Ferrato has advocated for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights by revealing the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their children. Photographing in emergency rooms, women's shelters, courtrooms, batterers' groups, women's detention centers, and while riding along with law enforcement, Ferrato aims to expose "the dark side of family life." More importantly, Ferrato's work has ignited decades of advocacy work for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights that has helped to attract funding for domestic violence shelters nationwide and educated people on the warning signs of abuse, as well as the obstacles survivors face when trying to leave their abusers.

Free

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