Join Meghan, our Member Program Experience Manager, for a casual brunch at BasBlue, followed by a short walk and excursion to the DIA to catch the current photography exhibition, James Barnor: Accra/London—A Retrospective.
We’ll meet in the cafe at 11am, share some coffee and brunch and then at 12pm we will make the short walk over the DIA. We’ll then explore the James Barnor exhibition together.
In honor of Women’s Equality Day, let’s take it upon our lady selves to enjoy arts and culture right in our hood. Admission to the exhibition is free with General Admission. General museum admission is FREE for residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties.
If you have any questions, email Meghan directly via meghan@basblueus.com. Feel free to invite friends. This is casual and meant to just be social, easy breezy, and fun.
Here’s more about the exhibition:
The DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts) proudly presents the exhibition, James Barnor: Accra/London—A Retrospective, a comprehensive survey of the work of Ghanaian photographer James Barnor whose career spans more than six decades. A studio portraitist, photojournalist, and Black lifestyle photographer, Barnor was born in 1929 in the West African nation of Ghana. He established his famous Ever Young Studio in Accra in the early 1950s and devoted his early photography to documenting critical social and political changes that animated the nation on the cusp of independence from Britain.
After moving to London in 1959 to further his studies, he began a hugely successful career with influential South African magazine Drum, which captured the spirit and experiences of London’s burgeoning African diaspora. Upon his return to Ghana in the 1970s, Barnor established the country’s first color processing photo lab. An avid music enthusiast, he embedded himself in the social and highlife scene while continuing his work as a portrait photographer. He returned to London in 1994.
A catalogue accompanying James Barnor’s major solo exhibition is available in the DIA Shop(opens in a new tab).
