Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Osmara Jaquez

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 1:00pm, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

Eastside Volume 1

Osmara Jaquez identifies as an eighteen years old Chicana and alumni of George Washington High School. During high school she conducted protests and guided students in social activism as well as participating in Gallery 37... read more

Glenna Jennings

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 10:10am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

From the Gallery to the Overpass: Negotiating Socially-Engaged Collaborations in Photographic Education

Glenna Jennings is an Associate Professor of photography at the University of Dayton whose work includes image-making curating and socially-engaged art. She is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and has... read more

Julie Renée Jones

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 10:10am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

From the Gallery to the Overpass: Negotiating Socially-Engaged Collaborations in Photographic Education

Julie Renée Jones lives in and makes work about the American midwest, concentrating on the complexities of aging and memory. She has exhibited across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Work from the award-winning series Umbra... read more

Jenny Kettler

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 1:00pm, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

Jenny Kettler

Jenny Kettler's work explores the complex and interwoven relationships with the natural world in the Anthropocene. She photographs plastic bags caught in trees that haunt the Midwest landscape and considers transforming the negative trajectory of... read more

Epiphany Knedler

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 9:00am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

Epiphany Knedler

Epiphany Knedler is an archiver of American life. Growing up in Vermillion, South Dakota, she finds comfort in Midwestern aesthetics and small-town familiarity. She graduated from the University of South Dakota with a BFA in... read more

Justine Kurland

Thursday, October 24, 2019 @ 7:30pm, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room

Justine Kurland

Justine Kurland is known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. Her early work comprises photographs, taken during many cross­country road trips, which reveal... read more

Michael Lagerman

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 9:00am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

Michael Lagerman

Michael Lagerman is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee after receiving his Bachelor's in Philosophy from Northern Michigan University in 2014. Lagerman is presently a Teaching Assistant for Digital Arts: Theory,... read more

Vaughan Larsen

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 9:00am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

Vaughan Larsen

Vaughan Larsen is a Milwaukee-based artist, and a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, emphasis in Photography. Larsen received the 2019 SPE Student Award for Innovations in... read more

Zora J Murff

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 6:00pm, MIAD: 4th Floor Raw Space

MIAD Creativity Series: Strange Fire Collective

Zora J Murff is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas. Murff holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska--Lincoln and a BS in Psychology from Iowa State University. Combining his... read more

Marivi Ortiz

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 10:10am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

Developing and Inclusive Classroom Curriculum

Marivi Ortiz is a professional photographer based in Chicago. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prevalent themes in her work include the desire for connection, identity construction,... read more

Darcy Padilla

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 7:30pm, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Union Ball Room

Darcy Padilla

Darcy Padilla is a documentary photographer focusing on long-term research about struggle and the trans-generational effects. She is a member of Agence VU' in Paris and the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Jeff Phillips

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 1:00pm, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

Jeff Phillips

Jeff Phillips is a photographic artist and educator living in Chicago, Illinois. He is interested in exploring new methods for engaging with photography--with a focus on zine making, public projections, and immersive visual installations. He... read more