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Photographer, Educator, Visual Artist, People,cat and dog dad
• Based in Philadelphia

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Today we got out of the classroom to meet a contemporary photographer @rontarver and get inspired to keep telling meaningful stories. Thanks Ron and @theprintcenter

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🤠 RESCHEDULED!
Want to hang out with some horses, see the historic club that inspired “Concrete Cowboy,” AND enjoy a cowboy BBQ?! 🐴 On Sunday, November 8, The Print Center and @swarthmorecollege are partnering to host a Field Trip and Picnic at Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club! Guests will enjoy a tour of the club and a picnic lunch. Tickets required.

Fletcher Street is pictured in many of Ron Tarver’s photographs, currently on view in The Print Center's exhibition “The Long Ride Home, Black Cowboys in America.” Fletcher Street's mission aims to preserve Philadelphia’s Black horsemen history and traditions, create bonds in the community and create a safe space where local youth can learn and grow through equestrian activities. Learn more on @fletcherstreeturbanridingclub’s website.
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📅 Sunday, November 8
🕐 12 – 3pm
📍 At Fletcher Street
🎟 Ticket required: $10 for general public (link 🔗 in @theprintcenter bio)
🎟️ Tickets free for Swarthmore students (sign up via swarthmore.edu/cooper-series)
➡️ Ticket includes a picnic lunch. Transportation not included.
Thank you to @uniquephoto for sponsoring the program!
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Images courtesy of Fletcher Street
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#ThePrintCenter #ThePrintCenterPhiladelphia @rontarver

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NEXT WEEK we are excited to host an Artist Talk with Ron Tarver about his latest series!
FREE TO ATTEND
5:00 PM
Musser Auditorium, Pfahler Hall Artist Talk, Ron Tarver

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Some versions of American history are so familiar that we can picture them before anyone finishes the sentence.

But familiarity isn’t the same thing as the full story.

New exhibitions in Philadelphia and San Diego are putting Black people back into landscapes we helped shape, from cowboy culture to centuries of Black life on the water.

What piece of Black history did you not learn until you were older?

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Right now at @theprintcenter The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America by @rontarver

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This Thursday! Join us for a conversation between Ron Tarver, Jordan Bullock and Art T. Burton, presented at The Print Center and on Zoom (6pm ET). Tarver, Bullock and Burton will reflect on their lifelong journeys shaped by Black cowboy culture, their commitment to preserving its vital cultural history, and how they have come together for “The Long Ride Home” project. 🐎
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➡️ Thursday, October 1, 6pm (ET)
➡️ Presented both in-person and on Zoom (link 🔗 in bio)
➡️ Free and open to the public
➡️ Registration not required for in-person attendance
➡️ Presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, “Ron Tarver: The Long Ride Home, Black Cowboys in America,” on view through November 14
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Ron Tarver was a staff photojournalist at “The Philadelphia Inquirer” for more than 30 years. He has received a Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim, along with numerous other awards, and has exhibited his work extensively. He is currently Associate Professor/Department Chair of Art, @swarthmorecollege.

Jordan Bullock is a Philadelphia-based racehorse trainer whose work is rooted in the city’s tradition of Black urban horsemanship. Raised in North Philadelphia, he gained attention as a young subject of Tarver’s series about Philadelphia's Black cowboys in the early 1990s.

Art T. Burton is an award-winning author who published the first books on African American and Native American outlaws, lawmen and soldiers in the Wild West. He has received numerous recognitions and appeared in documentaries and TV shows. Burton also wrote an essay for Tarver’s award-winning book, “The Long Ride Home.”
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Images (left to right):
1. Ron Tarver
2. Jordan Bullock at age 10 in Tarver's image, “Bumpsey and Jordan (Philadelphia, PA),” 1993
3. Art T. Burton
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#ThePrintCenter #ThePrintCenterPhiladelphia #TheLongRideHome @rontarver @swatartdepartment

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September is prime Pennsylvania weather. And while art is always in season, we’ve entered peak art-viewing season here on the East Coast. Yesterday, I went to NYC to preview The Armory Show (expect a round-up soon). The upcoming Duchamp retrospective opens at the @philamuseumart on October 10, 2026, and @collectivefutures.info , a six-week citywide project activating Philadelphia’s network of artist-run spaces, begins October 2, 2026. There is no shortage of art to see. You can view more upcoming exhibitions on @phillyartmap .

I’ve begun a new tradition of taking long walks on Fridays. This past week I picked up a copy of The Brooklyn Rail from Locks Gallery and strolled through Washington Square Park, where preschoolers held hands and jumped with excitement as an airplane flew overhead. Despite the doomscroll media narrative, I don’t think the world is ending. And if it is, it’s been ending for a very long time. Can we sit in the darkness? In the preface to Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (2021), Teju Cole writes that he “sought out the help of photographers, poets, painters, composers, translators, voyagers, mourners, and mentors to apprehend the wisdom latent in the dark.” As Thomas J. Millay writes in the LARB about Cole’s book, “darkness is not a void, but a luminous place, a place of revelation. Darkness calls forth the urgent use of the senses.” In making this round-up, I noticed that each of the following six exhibitions, in some ways, works with darkness. —EEL

Swipe through and read about six standout exhibitions in Philadelphia this September and October 2026.

Slide 4- the exhibition is titled 2026 EDT not EST.

Image captions:

Ron Tarver, The Basketball Game (Philadelphia, PA), 1992, pigment print, 24 x 38 inches.

Image courtesy the artist and Fleisher/Ollman.

Exhibition shot of 2026 EST. Image credit: Constance Mensh.

Exhibition image of Nightfall courtesy of Locks Gallery.

Image courtesy of Peep Projects.

Image courtesy of Big Ramp.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Opening Reception for “Ron Tarver: The Long Ride Home, Black Cowboys in America.” It was a lively evening and we were grateful to see so many colleagues, friends, special guests and new faces who enjoyed a gallery talk by Tarver and our Executive Director, Liz Spungen.
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Huge thanks to El-Dog, founder of @fletcherstreeturbanridingclub, and all of the wonderful students who joined us on Latimer Street to help facilitate horseback rides with the beautiful mares, Frida and Sage. They made this our most unique opening to date!
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Grab a friend and join us this Wednesday to enjoy a guided tour of the show! The free tour will offer a closer look into the photographs on view and some of the stories behind them.
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Public tour times:
➡ THIS WEEK! Wednesday, September 23 @ 12pm
➡ Wednesday, October 7 @ 12pm
➡ Friday, October 23 @ 5:30pm
➡ Friday, November 13 @ 5:30pm
(registration requested, but not required, 🔗 link in bio)
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Images:
1. Opening Reception
2. @rontarver and El-Dog, founder of Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club, pose with Frida the horse
3. Sage the horse on Latimer Street
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#phlarts #visitphilly #ThePrintCenter #ThePrintCenterPhiladelphia

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Que de beaux souvenirs avec @reseau_lux à la @maccreteil pour l’exposition Lux 200.
Je ne remercierai jamais assez toutes celles et ceux qui nous ont aidés à monter notre exposition : Félix, Marion, Annaka, Claire, Charlotte et, bien sûr, notre Juliette nationale.
Merci à nos artistes Jenna Garrett @particulr et @rontarver pour leur confiance. Un énorme bravo à toute l’équipe de @reseau_lux . L’expo est ouverte jusqu’en Décembre. Profitez ! Merci pour les beaux portraits @clairepathe @glaz.festival @juliette_mzc

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🎉 In the News!
Thank you to Mina Llona and The Philadelphia Tribune (@phillytrib) for the thoughtful coverage of our current exhibition, “Ron Tarver: The Long Ride Home, Black Cowboys in America.”
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We are also excited and grateful to have the exhibition featured in The Eye of Photography (loeildelaphotographie)!
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Find the links for both pieces using the 🔗 link in our bio!
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"The Long Ride Home" is on view at The Print Center through November 14, 2026. We hope you will visit!
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#ThePrintCenter #ThePrintCenterPhiladelphia @rontarver

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Le GLAZ Festival est très heureux de participer à 200LUX EXPO, l’exposition collective du @reseau_lux, qui réunit ses 33 membres à la MAC – Maison des Arts de Créteil.

À cette occasion, le GLAZ présente 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 de Ron Tarver (@rontarver) et 𝘛𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘧 de Jenna Garrett (@particulr) .

📍 MAC – Maison des Arts de Créteil 
📅 Du 19 septembre au 19 décembre 2026 
🥂 Vernissage le 19 septembre à partir de 15h

Une belle occasion de découvrir la richesse et la diversité de la photographie contemporaine !

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Saturday & Sunday were days of fun, creativity, sharing and seeing friends at @2020photofest .

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