Cranberry Ginger Muffins

These two ingredients make each other better. Enjoy these while listening to Ming Smith and Russell Frederick in conversation, live at the Brooklyn Museum.

Cranberry ginger muffins with a brown sugar walnut topping.

Ming Smith is known for her portraits of cultural figures, from Alvin Ailey to Nina Simone. She was an early member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a renowned collective of Black photographers. Smith is the first Black woman to have her photography included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has also been collected by the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Schomburg Center, the Whitney Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Russell Frederick is known for his twenty years of documentary photography– from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn to Ethiopia. His photographs of notable figures like Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have been featured in publications including the New York Times, NBC News, the Daily Beast, Vice and the Wall Street Journal. Russell’s work is in the permanent collections of the Gordon Parks Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library & the Open Society Foundation.