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Ron Tarver comes from a family of African American cowboys. He grew up in Ft. Gibson, a small agricultural community in rural northeastern Oklahoma. His grandfather was a working cowboy during the 1940s, and Tarver spent many long, hot summer days hauling hay and working on local farms. The recipient of a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, in Photography Tarver has distinguished himself in the field of fine-art photography. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and two Independence Foundation Fellowships. As a long-time staff photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, he shared the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his work on a series documenting school violence in the Philadelphia public school system, was nominated for three additional Pulitzers, and honored with awards from World Press Photos and the Sigma Delta Chi Award of the Society of Professional Journalists. Tarver is currently Associate Professor of Art at Swarthmore College. He is co-author, with journalist Yvonne Latty, of We Were There: Voices of African American Veteran from World War II to the War in Iraq (Harper Collins, 2004), which was accompanied by a traveling exhibition that debuted at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Art T. Burton retired in 2015 after spending thirty-eight years in higher education as a professor of history at Prairie State College and South Suburban College and as an administrator in African American Student Affairs at Benedictine University, Loyola University Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several groundbreaking books on African-American history in the West, most recently Cherokee Bill: Black Cowboy-Indian Outlaw (Eakins Press, 2020) and Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves (Bison Books, 2022). Elizabeth Cheng Krist was a Senior Photo Editor with National Geographic magazine for more than 20 years and a founding member of the Visual Thinking Collective, a community of creative, independent women committed to visual storytelling through projects and mentorships. She is also a board member of Women Photograph and the W. Eugene Smith Fund, advises the Eddie Adams Workshop, has helped program National Geographic's Storytellers Summit (formerly the Photography Seminar) for more than a decade, and has produced stories for Literary Hub, The New Yorker, Magnum Photos, and Smithsonian Journeys, among others, and teaches for the International Center of Photography and La Luz. Honors include the 2021 John Durniak Mentor Award from National Press Photographer's Association for mentoring photojournalists as well as recognition from Pictures of the Year International, the Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts.
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