The 2024 Earth Day Breakfast will take place on Thursday, April 18, from 8-10 a.m. in the Brown Ballroom. Tickets will go on sale March 4. More information will be released in the new year.
The Earth Day Breakfast will include a sustainable selection of local foods, vegan options, fair trade coffee and teas, and will feature keynote speaker LaToya Ruby Frazier.
As an artist-activist, Frazier’s artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art, and books. Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, environmental justice, access to health care, access to clean water, workers’ rights, human rights, family, and communal history.
Frazier spent five months living in Flint, Michigan, documenting the lives of those affected by the city’s water crisis for her photo essay, Flint is Family. Frazier’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions in the U.S. and Europe and is held in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and many others.
The event is open to both campus and community. Add it to your calendar and make plans now to attend with your students, colleagues, and friends.
For questions or sponsorship opportunities, contact the Office of Sustainability at sustainability@illinoisstate.edu.
