Cecil McDonald Jr. — Focal Point

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Oct 30

Oct 30 Episode 17: Bob Thall and Cecil McDonald Jr.

Max Hatlem

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 art-making 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.