Interview with Cecil McDonald, Jr.

Interview with Cecil McDonald, Jr.

Naluwa Adeyooye

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Description

Cecil McDonald, Jr. is a photographer and educator. He studied fashion, house music, and dance club culture before earning a BA and MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, where he currently serves as adjust professor. He also serves as lecturer at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. A focus of his work is the idea that people and their histories can both inform and free each other, particularly at the intersection with masculinity, family, and Black culture. McDonald’s work employs interdisciplinary elements such as sound, video, performance, and installation. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is present in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Chicago Bank of American LaSalle Collection, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Length: 63:33. Transcript: 12 pages.

Publication Date

Fall 2024

Publisher

Columbia College Chicago

City

Chicago

Keywords

photography, art, teaching, creativity, community, Illinois, Chicago

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Communication | History | Photography | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Comments

The Photography at Columbia College Chicago oral history project documents the program taught here from the perspective of faculty and alumni. Conducted as part of a larger Columbia College Chicago oral history project focused on capturing oral histories from people who shaped the modern Columbia, these interviews offer personal narrative insights into the evolution and history of the college photography program. Students in the Oral History: The Art of the Interview class taught by Dr. Erin McCarthy, conducted the interviews.

Interview with Cecil McDonald, Jr.

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