1. Courtney Miles Frank Stewart

2. Born in 1949 in Nashville, Tennessee Grew up in Memphis, Chicago, and New York City Attended Art Institute of Chicago and received a BFA in photography from Cooper Union Work often features an emphasis on African Americans and their culture

3. Music and visual arts matter -father: sold recording equipment -mother: artist, designer, model Mother -inspired interest in drawing classes at young age -gave him his first camera…Million Man March Roy DeCarver -photographer who inspired, encouraged, and taught Stewart that photography is like jazz

4. The shared experience of music

5. Series to Mimic Windows http://www.frankstewartphoto.com/ windows.html

6. Sources http://www.frankstewartphoto.com/biography.html http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/events/frank-stewart- photographer/ http://conversations.africa.si.edu/themes/music-and-urban- culture/