Join photographer Jim Dow and Dr. April Watson, Senior Curator of Photography at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, for a conversation about his early black-and-white prints as well as a small selection of recent color work on view in the exhibition Signs: Photographs by Jim Dow. During his first decade as a young photographer—between 1967 and 1977—Dow drove along old US highways on numerous cross-country road trips, focusing his large format camera on time-worn signage extracted from billboards, diners, gas stations, drive-in theaters, ice cream stands, burger joints, and other small businesses. These photographs convey Dow’s fascination with the ingenuity and creative spirit found in the built environment and celebrate the desire to express individual agency and creativity in the landscape we inhabit.

5:30 pm – Bar (cash/credit) opens; exhibition open
6:30 pm – Program begins