Bill Tennessen @ Haggerty Museum of Art

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Bill Tennessen @ Haggerty Museum of Art

February 8th, 2024 by fstop

Bill Tennessen, American, b. 1934, Juneteenth Day Celebration, 1985 (detail), 8 x 10”, Silver nitrate print, Collection of the artist

Bill Tennessen: Dynamic Range
January 19 – May 12, 2024

Gallery talk by Bill Tennessen at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, February 21, 2024

“Bill Tennessen was born in 1934 and grew up on North 39th Street in Milwaukee. He is a 1956 graduate of Marquette University’s College of Business Administration. Tennessen is a self-taught photographer who began contributing photos to the Milwaukee Community Journal, Wisconsin’s largest African American newspaper, in 1981. He has documented the Ernest Lacy demonstrations, Juneteenth Day celebrations, activities of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and the Ko-Thi Dance Company. He captured many of Milwaukee’s Central City storefront churches and the appearance in town of numerous important cultural and political personalities of our time. He has photographed the Milwaukee Bucks and Marquette University basketball and many other sports and community events.”

Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University
1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI 53233

https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/tennessen.php

Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Type: Exhibition

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