Photography
Charlene Foggie-Barnett
Teenie Harris Community Archivist, Carnegie Museum of Art
Areas of focus: Teenie Harris, Photography
Charlene Foggie-Barnett hails from Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District and was born to Civil Rights leaders Bishop and Mrs. Charles H. Foggie. She researches the Teenie Harris Archive’s photos, conducts outreach, collects and records oral histories that result from the Archive’s exhibitions, events, lectures, blogs, and tours. Currently, Foggie-Barnett is vice president of the African American Historical and Genealogical Society of Pittsburgh and is a member of the Association of African American Museums. Foggie-Barnett knew and was photographed by Harris from the age of 3 months through adulthood.
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Dan Leers
Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art
Areas of focus: Photography, Contemporary African Art
Prior to joining Carnegie Museum of Art in May 2015, Dan Leers was an independent curator in New York City and a curatorial advisor to the 2013 Venice Biennale. From 2007 to 2011, he served as the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. During his tenure at MoMA, Leers organized the exhibition New Photography 2011: Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali. He graduated with a BA from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and an MA from Columbia University. Since arriving in Pittsburgh, Leers has curated Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups and William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography.
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