Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards
November 4, 2023 - April 21, 2024Exhibition open November 4, 2023 – April 21, 2024
Presented in partnership with the African Wildlife Foundation and Nature’s Best Photography, the Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards includes 48 prints and 4 videos. Named after the late Tanzanian president H.E. Benjamin Mkapa, a dedicated conservationist, the Mkapa Photo Awards feature 13 categories intended to capture beauty, uniqueness, and challenges facing African wildlife. Two of the categories are dedicated to youth: youth in Africa and international youth; others include “coexistence and conflict,” “African conservation heroes,” and “Africa’s backyard wildlife.”
Kaddu Sebunya, CEO of the African Wildlife Foundation, was integral in the formation of the contest, and the structure allows for a diverse roster of entrants. “It was absolutely intentional,” Sebunya says. “The diversity is clear not only in the photos, but in the photographers themselves. Our vision was to illustrate so many aspects of conservation and of Africa. We wanted to address all of the different issues that impact and support conservation on the continent.”
With this traveling exhibition, Sebunya is that much closer to the competition’s mission, which is to “bring the world to Africa and to bring Africa to the world.” Sebunya helped found the prestigious photography contest in partnership with the Nature’s Best Photography Fund in 2021 with the ambitious goal of raising awareness about the importance of empowering Africans to take the lead in conservation. “To be sustainable, conservation must be led by Africans because we are the stewards of these resources,” says Sebunya. “These images and videos help start the conversation. They help define and refine Africa’s agenda for conservation and development.”
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Out of the Shadows: Prints from the Permanent Collection
Through April 27, 2025Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso, Warhol—while many of the works in this show may be small in size, they are created by some of the biggest names in the canon of art history.
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Tony Foster: Watercolour Diaries from the Green River
Through May 4, 2025Artist Tony Foster became fascinated with the 50-million-year-old Green River fossilized fish when he first saw them in 1985. It was from these small special objects that he comprised the idea to make a group of artworks about the Green River. He began his project in 2018, creating a major painting of Steamboat Rock and the horseshoe bend from his vantage point up a 400 foot cliff. In the summer of 2019 he took a rafting trip from the Gates of Lodore to Split Rock, creating five smaller paintings en route. From these initial works he created this exhibition about, in Foster’s words: “this magnificent river.”
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