exhibits tapestries. 2004: Columbia University's School of International Affairs in conjunction with "The plight of the Rom" host a conference sponsored by Hillary Clinton. Monacelli Press publishes The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies, including photographs and memoirs. 2005: The Bruce Museum mounts an exhibition. Foto Museum in Antwerp organizes a survey of Belgian photography. 2007: "The Heroic Present: Jan Yoors Photographs" opens at Kenneshaw, Atlanta; Kansas State University, and Asheville, North Carolina. 2009: Fifty-One Fine Art, Antwerp shows Yoors's work at "Paris Photo". L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, NY shows Yoors's work in "La France de Profil". 2010: L. Parker Stephenson Photographs presents "Jan Yoors: Harlem, c. 1963". "Mid Century Style and Studio Pottery" at Greenwich House Pottery NY includes Jungle (1977). ReGeneration Furniture organizes "Tapestries, Drawings, and Photographs from the Estate of Jan Yoors". The gallery will organize two additional exhibitions. "Wandering the World City: Jan Yoors' New York Photographs, 1960s" is presented at Columbia University. 2011–2012 Stormy Sky (1976) is hung at the 2011 "Armory Show" at the ReGeneration Furniture lounge. The Museum of Arts and Design, NY presents "Crafting Modernism". "Couleurs shock", a solo-exhibition of tapestries is presented by Galerie Chevalier, Paris. Fifty-One Fine Art, Antwerp includes Yoors's photographs at "Paris Photo". L. Parker Stephenson, New York Gallery presents Yoor's photographs at "AIPAD Photography Show". Fifty-One Fine Art photography, Antwerp exhibits Yoors's photographs. FeliXart Museum in Drogenbos-Brussels organizes the first retrospective of Yoors's work since his death L. Parker Stephenson, New York, organizes "Jan Yoors: Abstractions 1960s −1977 Photographs, Gouaches, and Drawings" on view 4 September – 1 November 2014. Awards 1969 – Europaprijs voor literatuur 1973 – Christophe Plantin Prize References External links JanYoors.com L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York Metropolis Magazine – Tied in the Wool 1978 article about Yoors and his family, first printed in Mother Jones Magazine 1922 births 1977 deaths American people of Flemish descent Photographers from Antwerp 20th-century Belgian sculptors 20th-century Belgian painters Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni Burials at Green River Cemetery French Resistance members Belgian prisoners sentenced to death People condemned by Nazi courts Belgian emigrants to the United States