Ron Tarver
Associate Professor of Art
Areas of Expertise
- Photography
- Photojournalism
- Socially engaged art
- History of photography
Affiliations
In the News
- WHYY - "Michener Museum shows 40 years of helping artists get a leg up"
- 6abc - "House of the Living greenhouse in Montgomery County honoring victims of gun violence"
- The Philadelphia Inquirer - "The House of the Living is a fitting name for a new monument in Elkins Park honoring the victims of gun violence"
- The Philadelphia Citizen - "House of the Living"
- Fun Times Magazine - "For Black cowboys – from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas – horses and riding are a way of life"
- KRQE - "The life of the Black cowboy rides into history at the Harwood Museum of Art"
- The New York Times - "Restoring Black Cowboys to the Range"
- Milwaukee Independent - "Where Horses And Riding Are A Way Of Life: Ron Tarver’s Journey To Document The Black Cowboy Experience"
- The New Yorker - "Black Cowboys, Busting One of America’s Defining Myths"
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