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Public Program – Through the Lens: American Photographs from the Carter Collection

Name: Public Program – Through the Lens: American Photographs from the Carter Collection
Start: 2026-04-10T18:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-04-10T19:00:00.000Z
Location: The Joslyn Art Museum

Fri Apr 10, 6PM–7PM

Join us on April 10 for the Public Program marking the opening of Through the Lens: American Photographs from the Carter Collection. Through the Lens, on view from April 11 through August 16, presents a selection of more than fifty works from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, demonstrating the aesthetic potential, documentary value, and social power of photography.

Reserve your spot here.

Public Program, 6–7 pm
Join us for an opening talk in Witherspoon Hall, featuring a conversation with The Joslyn’s Elise Armani, Assistant Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, and Charles Wylie, Curator of Photography at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. $15 for General Public (includes admission to the talk and exhibition); FREE for Joslyn members; walk-ins accepted as space allows. Check-in begins at 5:30 pm; exhibition and cash bar open until 8 pm.

Members are invited to a reception prior to the talk. Interested in becoming a member? Join today!

Member Preview Reception, 4:30–6 pm
Joslyn members are invited to preview Through the Lens before it opens to the general public. Explore the exhibition and enjoy a reception with light bites and a cash bar.

For questions, please contact Maggie Koenig at mkoenig@joslyn.org or (402) 933-8229.

About Guest Speaker, Charles Wylie of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Charles Wylie began his tenure as Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas in May 2025. From 2016 to 2025, he served as Curator of Photography and New Media at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where he curated Janna Ireland: True Story Index (with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara), the largest solo exhibition of this emerging Los Angeles-based artist’s work, which includes poignant investigations into issues of identity, race, class, home, and the Black experience. Just prior, Wylie organized Shape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth Kelly (2023), the first museum exhibition solely dedicated to this lesser-known aspect of Kelly’s celebrated life’s work, along with a catalogue, the only museum monograph on Kelly’s photographs to date. From 1996 to 2022, Wylie served as the Dallas Museum of Art’s (DMA) Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, where he was responsible for all post-World War II art, including photography, and with colleagues launched the DMA’s collection of media art. While in Texas, he also worked as an independent curator, writer, and advisor for private collections in Dallas and New York. Earlier he was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, and a Graduate Intern in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He earned a BA in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and an MA in the History of Art from Williams College in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute.

Pictured: Martine Gutierrez (American, b. 1989), Neo-Indeo, Cakchi Lana Caliente, p29 from Indigenous Woman, 2018, dye coupler print, 54 1/4 × 36 1/4 in. (137.8 × 92.1 cm), Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase with funds provided by the Photo Forum, P2023.12, © Martine Gutierrez

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