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“I am honored to be part of a growing women's network that embraces education, empowerment, advocacy, and change on behalf of our sisters around the world. We are painters, sculptors, fiber artists, photographers, business women and educators with a passion to share not only our talents, but our story.”
For full story copy/paste the link below for the National Museum of Women in the Arts:
http://womeninthearts.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/jambo-tanzania-women-artists-in-northwest-ohio-and-tanzania-2/
July 2009 - After careful and considerate review, LaTreice V. Branson is selected as one of six applicants nominated for travel on the second delegation from northwest Ohio to Tanzania in July 2009 to conduct professional arts workshops, participate in an art exhibition, and conduct leadership workshops with the newly formed Women’s Art Network Leadership. Selected participants range in age from twenty-two to forty-six years and will present three categories of art media including painting, photography and sculpture. These six people are excellent candidates who will represent the goals of the project, deliver quality workshops, and will present in the best interests of this U.S. program. Additionally, these artists have all worked directly with the first Tanzanian delegation in Ohio on collaborative projects. These six candidates will enhance and compliment the work already accomplished by the first U.S. delegation to Tanzania. Additionally, the director of the Arts Council Lake Erie West and co-director of the ‘International Women’s Arts Exchanges with Tanzania’ grant program will accompany the delegation to provide leadership, assist in special arts administration and leadership aspects of the workshops identified by Tanzanian partners, interview potential Tanzanian candidates that will be selected to travel to the U.S., work with the U.S. Embassy, and provide oversight on the project to see that goals are met and with appropriate documentation. He traveled to Tanzania leading the first successful U.S. delegation in February 2009, and in 2006 on a four-week GLC ‘workforce development project’ presenting workshops in four cities and rural communities on grant writing, marketing, collaboration and co-operative building, and product development. The six participants include Anne Pletz, painter/photographer/sculptor artist from Toledo OH; Raja Aossey, painter from Toledo OH; Alecia Robinson, painter artist from Toledo OH; Ellen Przybylski, jeweler/sculptor/art educator from Swanton OH; LaTreice Branson, photographer/painter/art educator from Columbus OH; and, Shari Densel, sculptor/painter/art educator from Waterville OH. The following snapshots provide an overview of the artists, and the artists’ full information may be found on the project website: www.artistsoftanzania.org.
April 2008 - Artist to give talk, performance, April 24
Local artist LaTreice Branson will give a talk and performance at the opening of her exhibit in the Educational Resources Center on Thursday, April 24, at noon in the TV studio on the lower level. The exhibit will run through April 30 in the Level 1 Gallery.
Branson started her career selling her art in 2002 at age 18. She graduated from Cheney University in Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Fine Arts, and from Ohio State with her Master of Fine Arts in Photography. She teaches digital and film photography at Ohio State.
Branson’s most recent artwork is titled “Reflected Blackness,” and her exhibits are accompanied by lectures on race, identity and blackness. The artist’s reception is free and open to the public. Visit Branson’s Web site to learn more.
LaTreice is honored to have her portrait ( top right) and three of her other self-portraits included in this wonderful exhibition catalog, "OTHER HEROES: African American Comics Creators, Characters, and Archetypes". The catalog from the 2007 Jackson State University art exhibition featuring a who's who of famous and award winning African American comics creators and characters. Preface by Dwayne McDuffie, essays by RC Harvey, Turtel Onli, Alex Simmons, Nancy Goldstein, William Foster, and curators John Jennings & Damian Duffy. All profits past printing costs are donated to the Scholarship America Disaster Relief Fund to help Hurricane Katrina and Rita survivors seek post-secondary education. For more information go to: http://www.eyetrauma.net/brain/curation.htm
LaTreice Branson has used the same mirror for self-portraits since she was a teenager. After experiences such as being the valedictorian of her undergraduate class, s pageant winner and a Christian stand-up comedian, she rounds things out with an MFA in photography. Her Cindy Sherman-esque show Face 2 Face: Mirrored Self Portraits will be on exhibit June 8 to July 27 at OSU's Hale Black Cultural Center.
http://www.columbusalive.com/live/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=alive/2007/0510/a-masters.html
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