Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Terry A. Ratzlaff

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 11:00am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

Terry A. Ratzlaff

Terry A. Ratzlaff is 2nd year MFA candidate and instructor of record at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his BA from the Art Institute of Colorado in 2007. His work is inspired by encounters... read more

John-David Richardson

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 9:20am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

John-David Richardson

John-David Richardson is a photographer based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2018. He was named the Grand Prize Winner of PDN's 2018 Student Photo Contest, Second Place... read more

Areca Roe

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

Artist-Run Gallery Collectives 101: The Nuts and Bolts of one Midwestern Model

Areca Roe is an artist based in Minnesota. She works in many media; primarily photography, as well as video, sculpture, and installation. A recurrent theme in her work is the interface between the natural and... read more

Jacinda Russell

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 11:20am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

Jacinda Russell & Camden Hardy

Jacinda Russell is a conceptual artist who transforms objects into self-portraits, representations of place, and symbols of fixation. She received her BFA from Boise State University in Studio Art and her MFA from the University... read more

Jaclyn Silverman

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

Eastside Volume 1

Jaclyn Silverman is a photographer and professor from Youngstown, Ohio living in Chicago, Illinois. She is a founder of Chicago non-profit artist residency, CPS Lives, Part-time Professor of Arts and Humanities with the City Colleges... read more

Rafael Soldi

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

MIAD Creativity Series: Strange Fire Collective

Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian­-born, Seattle-based photographer and curator. He holds a BFA in Photography & Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, American... read more

James R Southard

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

James R Southard

After receiving his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011, James R Southard started working with video and large-scale digital photography. Many of these projects were created while working at one of the ten artists... read more

Marc Tasman

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 9:20am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

Marc Tasman & Ann Hanlon

Marc Tasman is an Intermedia artist focusing his research on the strengths of social technologies to create and preserve culture. He encourages students to look at theories of media and to test them using various... read more

Dianna Temple

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

Dianna Temple

Dianna has a Bachelor's degree in Photography from Bowling Green State University and an Occupational therapy Doctorate from the University of Toledo. Her current work explores the relationship between her and her sibling with... read more

Emily Wiethorn

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 2:10pm, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

Emily Wiethorn

Emily Wiethorn is an artist and educator based in Cincinnati, OH. She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her BFA in Photography from Northern Kentucky University. She attended the New York Times... read more

Krista Wortendyke

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 2:00pm, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room A

Krista Wortendyke & Daniel Dowling

Krista Wortendyke is a Chicago-based conceptual artist. She received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College in 2007. Her ongoing work examines violence through the lens of photography. Her images are a result of a... read more

Rana Young

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 9:20am, Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B

Rana Young

Rana Young is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. Rana holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was an Othmer Fellow and... read more