South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Lauren Allen

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 2:30pm, IPE Building

Zines Zines Zines

Currently residing in Denton Texas, Lauren E. Allen graduated from the University of North Texas in 2024 with a Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art with a concentration in photography and Cum Laude from... read more

Dillon Bryant (b. Spearfish, SD) is a lens based artist working between the West and Midsouth whose practice explores desire, landscape, and family mythologies through constructed images. Bryant is currently an MFA candidate at the... read more

Austin Cullen

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 10:00am, IPE Building

Photographic Clearance

Austin Cullen is a Houston based photographic Artist. He received his BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2019, and his MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022. His current project explores museum... read more

Fatmeh Fani

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 11:00am, IPE Building

Erasure

Fatemeh Fani (b. 1992) is a researcher, activist and MFA student at UW-Madison. Fatemeh is working on personal archival photographs, aimed at challenging the concept of mandatory hijab and the stolen identity of Iranian women.... read more

Jordan Funk

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 11:00am, IPE Building

The Land That Stains

Jordan Funk is a photographic artist in Denton, TX. Her work explores identity, memory, and topography and involves historical and experimental photographic processes. She primarily works with Polaroids and is drawn to them for their... read more

Steve Goff

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 5:30pm, IPE Building

Honored Educator: Steve Goff

Steve Goff, Retired Professor and former Program Head of Photography, taught at Odessa College since 1984. He has an extensive exhibition record, continues to teach part-time, gives Visiting Artist presentations, and conducts workshops throughout the... read more

Theo Johnson

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 4:45pm, IPE Building

The People of Quakertown

Theo Johnson (b. 2003, Houston, TX) is a photographer, writer, and student at the University of North Texas. His work explores Black memory, displacement, and community resilience through documentary and archival research. Centering suppressed histories,... read more

Colby Kohn

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 4:30pm, IPE Building

Work Ahead

Colby Edward Kohn is an artist and photographer based in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Maine, grounding his artistic practice in a... read more

Krista Leigh Steinke

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 2:00pm, IPE Building

Field Notes from the Texas Land, Sea, and Sky

Krista Leigh Steinke is an experimental lens-based artist, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor in Art+Design at Texas A&M University. Her creative research offers poetic reflections on time, place, perception, and the interconnection between human experience and... read more

Gabi Magaly

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 12:00pm, IPE Building

Reclaiming Soledad

Gabi Magaly is a Houston-based Chicana lens-based artist, born in Bryan-College Station, Texas. Her self-portraiture explores self-worth, independence, and the generational impact of traditional expectations on women in Mexican-American and Chicana cultures. Influenced by Nan... read more

Jennifer Marion

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 12:00pm, IPE Building

Until Further Notice

Navigating family dynamics as a queer mother, I create a place where all my identities intersect. Importance emerges as I sharpen a voice within the work--through dark humor, irony, or heavy responses--to highlight the weight... read more

Joshua Mokry

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 10:00am, IPE Building

Photographic Clearance

Joshua Mokry is an artist based in Texas that exercises alternative techniques that convey and connect materials, subject matter, and feeling. He is currently interested in the environment, researching cave ecosystems and the greater impact... read more