ODWODL - Marc Fasanella 12/02/2021

Marc Fasanella talks about his father, Ralph Fasanella, one of the most important and influential painters of the late Twentieth Century. Ralph Fasanella’s works captured the lives, struggles, aspirations, and joys of workers and the labor movement for five decades from the 1940’s until his death in 1997. Fasanella is best known for his series of paintings on the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike, his canvases looking at his neighborhood and immigrant family, and his paintings that captured baseball in both professional ballparks and local sandlots. His paintings also have a strong political flavor with some of his works focusing on the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and the death of John F. Kennedy among others. Marc Fasanella is the author of Ralph Fasanella: Images of Optimism, which was published in 2017 by Pomegranate.  Marc has taken a strong hand in the website, www.Fasanella.org, which is hosted on MSU’s Matrix site.  Marc Fasanella is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program (MSU Museum) and the Labor Education Program (MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations).