Previously On View
LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022
Date
November 3, 2024 - March 23, 2025
Overview
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s acclaimed installation More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 is the first of a series of exhibitions and projects presented as part of the BMA’s Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative.
Initially created for the 58th Carnegie International, where it won the Carnegie Prize, the installation features a series of portraits and related narratives mounted on 18 socially distanced, stainless-steel IV poles that capture and celebrate the essential work of community health workers in Baltimore during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. Powerful and deeply evocative, the large-scale installation monumentalizes the community health workers’ efforts and offers an alternative approach to monument-making that challenges us to consider the nature of how and who we honor.
Curated by Jessica Bell Brown, Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and former Curator of Contemporary Art at the BMA.
Select Artworks in this Exhibition
Archive Gallery Images
Sponsored By
This exhibition is sponsored by Johns Hopkins University & Medicine and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. Additional support provided by John Meyerhoff, M.D. and Lenel Srochi Meyerhoff.
Location
Special Exhibition Galleries
Special Exhibition Galleries
Accessibility
The BMA is committed to fostering accessibility to create an inclusive environment for all our visitors.
This exhibition features a seating area and a gallery displaying a three-by-sixteen grid of photographs mounted on IV poles spaced six feet apart. As you explore the artworks, please be mindful of your body, mobility devices, or service animals.
Textured dashed lines on the exhibition floors indicate accessible resources, including a BMA Digital Guide and a visitor survey.
Videos
Exhibition Video 1
Honoring Community Health Workers Through Research & Art
More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 is an outgrowth of artist LaToya Ruby Frazier's long-standing relationship with Dr. Lisa Cooper, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. The two first connected during a 2015 conversation hosted by The Contemporary and the Baltimore School for the Arts that explored the power of art, science, and medicine to address environmental racism and remained in personal dialogue following the event. During the pandemic, Frazier was awarded both the National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship (2020-2021) and a commission for the 58th Carnegie International. When she experienced an incident of medical injustice while trying to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination, she was inspired to develop a project that both revealed the depth of healthcare inequity and celebrated those individuals on the frontlines working for change.
Exhibition Video 2
Centering the Margins: Uplifting Community Health Workers to Advance Health Equity
Watch a panel discussion that speaks to the role of community engaged research in the new exhibition LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022, on view November 3, 2024—March 23, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Press Contacts
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Related Events
Saturday, Nov. 9, 8:30-10:30 a.m. | Contributors Brunch & Talk: LaToya Ruby Frazier
Join Jessica Bell Brown, Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and former Curator of Contemporary Art at the BMA, and LaToya Ruby Frazier for an enlightening and immersive conversation about the profound installation LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022.
Thursday, Nov. 21, 6-9 p.m. | Centering the Margins: Uplifting Community Health Workers to Advance Health Equity
Join us for a panel discussion and a reception in connection with the LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 exhibition. Learn about the experiences and essential contributions of community health care workers through the lens of scientific research spearheaded by leaders of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity.