July 9 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Free Lecture by Acclaimed Photographer Janna Ireland

Janna Ireland, Hillside Memorial Park, Number 1, 2019. Image courtesy of Janna Ireland.

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Free Lecture by Acclaimed Photographer Janna Ireland — “The 2022 Lorna Spencer Hedges Photography Lecture,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Janna Ireland discusses her multi-faceted practice that includes intriguing staged tableaux of family life and an extensive and ongoing photographic interpretation of the architecture of Paul R. Williams, the renowned 20th-century Black architect who designed many of Southern California’s iconic buildings. Janna Ireland’s three photographs of Paul R. Williams’s Hillside Memorial Park are now on view in the SBMA exhibition, The Lens of Architecture.

With thanks to SBMA PhotoFutures and the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai.

Location: SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St.
Free

Reserve a spot at tickets.sbma.net

Please note: This event is in person at Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium. Visitors who plan to attend an event in SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium must show proof of being fully vaccinated with a booster (if eligible) OR, in some cases, supply a negative Covid-19 medical test result (taken within 72 hours prior to each event), along with an official photo ID, before entering the venue. All visitors must also follow SBMA’s mask policy and wear a mask while attending events in SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium.

Archival pigment print. SBMA, Museum Purchase, Eric A. Skipsey Acquisition Fund. Image courtesy of Janna Ireland. © Janna Ireland