Current & Upcoming programs
2025 Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Institute
Aspen, Colorado
June 29, 2025
How Photography Shapes Perception, Tyler Mitchell & Sarah Lewis
A celebrated artist and renowned art historian explore how photography can dissolve hierarchies between fine art and the everyday, and how the embrace of beauty, fantasy, and the fantastic can be a powerful form of cultural intervention. Together, they examine photography’s unique ability to shape public perception, and its potential to foster a more empathetic public.
June 30, 2025
Creating Justice, Sarah Lewis, Imani Perry, and Neal Katyal
As debates about our national identity and values persist, how do the stories we tell and the art we make influence the world we inhabit and our sense of belonging in it? What role does culture play in mediating or intensifying our disagreements? Does Art matter for Justice?
Edinburgh International Festival
August 18, 2025
The Hub
Edinburgh, Scotland
Sarah Lewis will participate in the Edinburgh International Festival with a discussion about her book The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America and an exploration of visual representation, justice, and democracy in the United States. Learn more.
2025 Aperture Gala
October 29, 2025
Aperture
New York, NY
Sarah Lewis and Vision & Justice will be honored at the 2025 Aperture Gala alongside photographer Tyler Mitchell. In 2016, Sarah guest-edited the landmark “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture magazine, which ignited a new conversation about visual representation and laid the foundation for the Vision & Justice Book Series published by Aperture.