Join us on Thursday, October 9, 4:45-6:30pm EST for Visual Voices with Carolyn Drake. This event will be held at Harris Theater on GMU's Fairfax Campus, and via Zoom. RSVP is required to receive the zoom link via email the day of!

Questions should be emailed to Jeff Kenney (jkenney5@gmu.edu)

About the Artist

Carolyn Drake works on long term photo-based projects seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and creatively reimagine them.  Her practice embraces collaboration and has in recent years melded photography with sewing, collage, and sculpture. She is interested in collapsing the traditional divide between author and subject, the real and the imaginary, challenging entrenched binaries. 

Drake was born in California and studied Media/Culture and History in the early 1990s at Brown University. Following her graduation, Drake moved to New York and worked as an interactive designer for many years before departing to engage with the physical world through photography at the age of 30. She has published six photo books. The most recent of these, “Ill let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,” is a collaboration with her partner Andres Gonzalez in towns along the border between the US and Mexico. Drake has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Henri Cartier Bresson Award, and a Fulbright fellowship, among other prizes. She is represented by Magnum Photos and Yancey Richardson Gallery and is based in Vallejo, California.