An award-winning artist who grew up in Duluth is the featured speaker for the University of Minnesota Duluth’s 1st celebration of this year’s Visual Culture Lecture Series.
Photographer Wing Young Huie is recognized for his large-scale tasks that encompass overall neighborhoods, regardless of whether it is really the portraits shown in store windows and bus stops along Lake Street in Minneapolis or an installation in St. Paul’s Frogtown that provided photos and prices.
He is scheduled to communicate at 6 p.m. Sept. 14 in UMD’s Solon Campus Centre 120, a lecture that will also be out there via Zoom. It really is free of charge and open up to the general public.
Huie was named the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s artist of the yr in 2000 and he been given the McKnight Distinguished Artist award in 2018.
At the time, the arts programming director for the basis explained him as “an professional photographer, but he’s also an qualified in participating.”
“His work starts off with a picture and proceeds with a conversation with men and women,” Vickie Benson mentioned.
Huie is also a teacher and the author of “Chinese-ness,” which won a Minnesota Ebook Award.
In 1996, a News Tribune reporter described the Duluth Central Higher School graduate as “a chronicler of the human ailment.”