Renowned Photographer and MassArt professor emerita Barbara Bosworth to Present Artist Lecture

Award-winning professor returns to campus amidst distinguished exhibition and award.

Fresh off receiving the prestigious Cleveland Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievement, celebrated MassArt professor emerita Barbara Bosworth will return to campus on September 24 as a distinguished lecturer. Her remarks will focus on her life’s work as a renowned landscape photographer, bookmaker, and educator. An informal reception will follow. 

Bosworth, who currently has a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston called The Meadow, uses her large-format photographic images to explore people’s overt and subtle relationships with the natural world. Her approach emphasizes the essential role of light and time, using cameras and telescopes to collect and record light over specific periods. She shot the 17 photographs in The Meadow, for instance, over the course of 15 years at a meadow in Carlisle, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe says the photographs “are so beautiful in their understated way that any more than that might seem overwhelming.”  Her celestial photographs evoke the mystery of ancient light landing on film.

Bosworth has exhibited at esteemed institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  

The September 24 lecture, hosted by the MassArt Photography Department, will begin at 6:30 PM in the Tower Auditorium, with the reception to follow in the West Tower Lobby. You can reserve tickets in advance.