Episode 17: Bob Thall and Cecil McDonald Jr.
In this episode, MoCP Executive Director Natasha Egan leads a discussion with Chicago-based artists and educators Bob Thall and Cecil McDonald, Jr.
Thall was an educator at Columbia College Chicago from 1978-2017, and both Egan and McDonald were once students in his classroom. Thall and McDonald discuss their mutually influential relationship to artmaking and to teaching, and the legacies of photographic education in Chicago. They also discuss their thoughts on work by Kathryn Harrison and Joseph Jachna in the MoCP permanent collection.
View Bob’s work here and Cecil’s work here.
Works Discussed:
Kathryn Harrison, Untitled, Sarasota, Florida, from the Blue-Stained Walls series, 2016
Joseph Jachna, Slough Grundy, 1967
