Stephen Marc

Awakened in Buffalo will feature the art of Stephen Marc through a major public transit art project including installations on metro buses and at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport. Marc’s digital montage work weaves together codes of African American culture and the assimilation and affirmation of ancestral roots and contemporary heritage. Awakened in Buffalo focuses on African-American life in Buffalo as well as the history of the underground railroad in the Western New York region. This project is a result of Marc’s “ARTWORKS!” residency at CEPA in summer 2000. The work will be featured for six weeks on ten Metro buses (inside and on both side and exterior taillight panels) and for eight weeks at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport.


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Stephen Marc is an Associate Professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University. He has published two photography monographs: The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience (1988) which studied street life in Jamaica, Ghana, England and the United States; and Urban Nations (1983) which investigated Midwestern African American life. Marc has been a recipient of the Arts Midwest Fellowship (regional NEA) and Illinois Arts Council Fellowships in 1988, ’91, and ’98. He has received awards from Columbia College, the Aaron Siskind Foundation and Chicago Seagram’s Commission for the African American Perspectives project.