Lisa McCarty: Transcendental Concord

The PRC and Radius Books present a lecture and booksigning with Lisa McCarty (lisamccarty.com), in honor of her new book, "Transcendental Concord." This lecture connects to, and resonates with, this region and locale -- only a few miles away -- and will be of great interest to photographers as well as those who study history, literature, and nature. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

LOCATION: Lunder Arts Center, Room 119, Lesley University, 1801 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
T-STOP: Red Line, Porter Square. NB: after 7PM, you must go through the elevator at the guard’s desk.
ADMISSION: $10 members / $15 non-members / $5 full-time students
FREE for students of PRC Institutional Member schools and no charge for members of the Lesley and Lesley University College of Art and Design community (students, faculty, staff)

McCarty's new book, "Transcendental Concord" (Radius Books, 2018) documents the spirit of Transcendentalism, the literary, social, and philosophical movement that arose from Concord, Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. In the course of a year and in every season, McCarty photographed the sites where the Transcendentalists lived and wrote in Concord. The book also includes texts by Rebecca Norris Webb, photographer, and Kirsten Rian, independent photography curator, multidisciplinary artist, and writer.

Lisa McCarty is an artist, curator, and educator based in Durham, North Carolina. McCarty has participated in over 70 exhibitions and screenings at venues such as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Houston Center for Photography, and the Visual Studies Workshop. McCarty’s photographs have also been featured in a variety of international festivals and her moving images have been screened at festivals from New York to Chicago to Cairo. McCarty holds a MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. She currently teaches at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies and is curator of the Archive of Documentary Arts.