Join us at the ICP for the second installment of the fall Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lectures series featuring Naima Green in conversation with Carmen Winant to discuss the role of motherhood in photography, on the occasion of Green’s exhibition Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies. The conversation will be moderated by Elisabeth Sherman, Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York, who also curated Green’s exhibition on view at ICP through January 12.
This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.
Image credit: Naima Green, Half on a Baby (Don Christian), 2025. Naima Green
Image credit: Carmen Winant
About the Series
The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.
ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2024-2025 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.
About the Speakers
Naima Green is an artist, photographer, and educator from New York. Her work is an invitation to participate, observe, and consider safety, utopia, and intimacy. Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Fotografiska New York, Smart Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, International Center of Photography, Houston Center for Photography, Bronx Museum, BRIC, Gallery 102, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Arsenal Gallery, amongst others. Naima’s works are in the collections of Barnard College Library, Decker Library at MICA, Fleet Library at RISD, International Center of Photography Library, Leslie-Lohman Museum, MoMA Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Hirsch Library, National Gallery of Art, Olin Library, Cornell University, Smart Museum of Art, Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds an MFA in Photography from ICP–Bard, an MA in Art & Art Educator from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA in Urban Studies and Sociology from Barnard College.
Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and transnational coalition building. Winant's projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and el Museo Universitario ArteContemporáneo. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. Winant is mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.
Elisabeth Sherman is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York. She most recently served as Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP where she curated numerous exhibitions including Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh, Yto Barrada: Part-Time Abstractionist, David Seidner: Fragments, 1977–99, and Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño. Previously, Elisabeth held curatorial roles at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she organized and co-organized many critically acclaimed exhibitions, including Dawoud Bey: An American Project, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, and Zoe Leonard: Survey, among others.
Header Image credit: ©Scott Rudd for ICP
