Haynes, a dynamic speaker and talented artist, will be exhibiting prints from his exquisite photography collection in the Lovejoy Library now through December 2023. Haynes exhibited his Whispering Quilts collection at Proctor in 2019 before the Currier Museum purchased the collection. 

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Richard Haynes, Jr., and his family were part of “the Great Migration” and moved to Harlem in 1958. He was a first-generation student, strongly encouraged by his middle school teacher to continue his education and become an artist. After serving in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, he earned a BFA from Lehman College and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Formerly an art and photography professor at McIntosh College, he is now Director of Admissions for Diversity at the University of New Hampshire. Through his art, he is a culture keeper and visual storyteller.

Richard is nationally recognized for his paintings and photographs. His work is part of the permanent collections of the Currier Museum of Art, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Center, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library, Avery Art Institute, Bronx Museum of Arts, Houghton and Mifflin, Historic New England, Proctor Academy, the University of New Hampshire, and many other public and private collections. He has also been an artist-in-residence for many of these organizations and New Hampshire public schools. 

Not to miss! Artist Talk “Finding the Call” – Richard will share his technique on how he uses large format cameras on Thursday, October 19, 3:00-4:00 PM; Art Reception following, 4:00-5:30 PM.

*To reserve a space for these events, please email campus Art Curator, Molly Leith at LeithMo@nullproctoracademy.org.  

To see more of Richard’s work, please visit his website at artistrichardhaynes.com.