West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Martha Díaz Adam

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 4:00pm, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

The Middle Eastern Headscarves; a symbol of Intangible Cultural Heritage, or a symbol of terror in the Western Hemisphere?

Martha Díaz-Adam is a visual artist-anthropologist and documentary photographer. Lebanese descendant born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Has a penchant for conducting investigations regarding cultural heritage and seeks to foster understanding among cultures and... read more

Tracy Fish

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 9:00am, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Post-New Topographic Photography as an Approach for Increasing Social Awareness

Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Tracy Fish received her MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts from Duke University (2015) and a BA in Art Studio from Coastal Carolina University. She is currently the Assistant... read more

Katie Fitzgerald

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 10:00am, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Who Tells Your Story: Reimagining Broadway in Rural Nicaragua

Katie Fitzgerald is an artist who is living and working in Nicaragua. After taking a course called "Social Justice in the Arts" at her alma mater, Santa Clara University, Katie decided to dedicate her life... read more

Lindsay Godin

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 9:00am, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Post-New Topographic Photography as an Approach for Increasing Social Awareness

Lindsay Godin is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Iowa. Lindsay creates photo documentaries that shed awareness on contemporary American cultural norms and political values and how they affect American society on the... read more

Ken Gonzales-Day

Friday, November 01, 2019 @ 5:00pm, Edward Dowd Bldg: 1st Floor Foyer

Exhibition Reception

Friday, November 01, 2019 @ 7:00pm, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Keynote: From Absence to Unseen

Ken Gonzales-Day's interdisciplinary and conceptually grounded projects consider the history of photography, the construction of race, and the limits of representational systems ranging from the lynching photograph to museum display. Gonzales-Day was awarded a Guggenheim... read more

Meggan Gould

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 7:30pm, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Honored Educator Talks

Meggan Gould is a photographer living and working in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. She received her MFA from... read more

Charlotta Maria Hauksdottir

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 2:45pm, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

A Feminist View of the Landscape: An Intimate, Political and Emotional Relationship to the Land

Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic artist, residing in California, working primarily in photography. Her work centers around the unique connection one has to places and moments in time, and how memories embody and elevate... read more

Victoria Mara Heilweil

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 2:45pm, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

A Feminist View of the Landscape: An Intimate, Political and Emotional Relationship to the Land

Sunday, November 03, 2019 @ 10:00am, Edward Dowd Bldg

Portfolio Reviews

Victoria Mara Heilweil is a feminist photographic artist, curator and educator. Her artwork has been included in exhibitions at the de Young Museum, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, University... read more

Abbey Hepner

Sunday, November 03, 2019 @ 10:00am, Edward Dowd Bldg

Portfolio Reviews

Abbey Hepner is an artist and educator whose work focuses on health and technology. She frequently works at the intersection of art and science, navigating through collaborative and research-oriented practices. Hepner holds degrees in Art... read more

Ron Herman

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 11:30am, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

In Search of Representational Justice: from the Abolitionists to the Black Lives Matter Movement

Ron Herman is an award-winning educator and Chair of the Photography Department at Foothill College. He has lectured at Cornell, Stanford, and Yale Universities, and his work is included in such collections as the Fototeca... read more

Dan Herrera

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 2:30pm, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Memes as a Pathway to Social Justice

Dan Herrera is an image maker and educator based in Sacramento, CA. Herrera uses an elaborate means of image capture, composition, and output that merges 19th century printing techniques with digital production. His work explores... read more

Scott Hinton

Saturday, November 02, 2019 @ 9:00am, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Post-New Topographic Photography as an Approach for Increasing Social Awareness

Scott Hinton is a photographer and educator documenting the complex geographies of the human environment in landscapes of the evolving American West. The stimulus to photograph in the West is to experience the grandeur of... read more