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DINNER DATE with Jesse Burke & Robert Morrison
April 27, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Please join us for The Print Center’s spring fundraiser, Dinner Date, with artist Jesse Burke and renowned collector Robert Morrison April 27, 2016.
Jesse Burke is known for his dramatically vivid photographs. His Wild & Precious series was created over the last five years, as he traveled across the country with his young daughter Clover exploring, communing and sometimes bumping up against nature. The series, and its accompanying book, have generated international attention, not only for its beautiful images, but also for its intimate depiction of the close relationship between the photographer and his collaborator/daughter. It also tells the story of our relationship to our environment, urging us to rebuild our connections with the natural world. Works from Burke’s Wild & Precious series are included in By the Book, The Print Center’s current exhibition.
Burke holds an MFA from RISD, Providence, RI, where he teaches photography, and a BFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI; ClampArt, New York, NY; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; and Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA. Burke’s work is included in many public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI; and, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. This past fall he was a guest host on The Print Center’s Instagram feed, as part of our Centennial celebration. An exhibition of Burke’s work, paired with the photographer Nils Ericson, was organized by The Print Center in 2011.
Dinner Date will begin at The Print Center at 6:00pm with a private champagne tour of Burke’s work in our exhibition By the Book led by the artist and John Caperton, Jensen Bryan Curator. A fabulous dinner will follow at Morrison’s exceptional Center City home.
Click HERE to purchase tickets.
Please RSVP by April 25, 2016.
Tour / 6 pm
Private champagne tour of By the Book: New Photography Publications with Jesse Burke and John Caperton, Jensen Bryan Curator
Dinner / 7 pm
An elegant dinner at the dramatic Center City home of renowned collector Robert J. Morrison.
Private champagne tour of By the Book: New Photography Publications with Jesse Burke and John Caperton, Jensen Bryan Curator
Dinner / 7 pm
An elegant dinner at the dramatic Center City home of renowned collector Robert J. Morrison.
Guests who join us at the Benefactor level or above will receive I’ll Fly Away II, 2014, created especially for this event by Jesse Burke. I’ll Fly Away II is an 10” x 8” inkjet print in an edition of ten.
Visionary: $1,200 for four individuals
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke
*Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Robert J. Morrison
*I’ll Fly Away II by Jesse Burke
Benefactor: $600 per person; $850 per couple
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke
*Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Robert J. Morrison
*I’ll Fly Away II by Jesse Burke
Patron: $300 per person; $550 per couple
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke
*Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Robert J. Morrison
Supporter: $100 per person
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke
Honorary Committee
Dr. Joseph Chazan
Emily Gowen
Gabriel Martinez
Allison & Matt Neff
Judith Tannenbaum
Bob Tursack
John Wind
For more information contact Jacqui Evans at 215.735.6090 x1 or jevans@printcenter.org