Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Yaelle Amir

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 1:00pm, Lindell Ballroom - Chase Park Plaza

Yaelle Amir

Yaelle Amir is the Curator at Newspace Center for Photography, where she manages the exhibitions and public programs. Yaelle has worked as a curator and researcher for over a decade, focusing primarily on socially-engaged photography,... read more

Claude Baillargeon

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 9:00am, Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza

Claude Baillargeon

Claude Baillargeon, PhD, MFA, is associate professor of art history at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. His most recent curatorial projects include Shadows of the Invisible (2014), Revolutionizing Cultural Identity (2008), and Imaging a Shattering Earth... read more

Katina Bitsicas

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 10:00am, Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza

Katina Bitsicas

Katina Bitsicas is a new media artist who utilizes video, photography, and performance in her art works. Her works explore the effects of crime, traumatic personal events, and architectural containments on the human psyche.... read more

Jeremy Bolen

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 10:00am, Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza

Jeremy Bolen

Jeremy Bolen is a Chicago based artist, researcher and educator interested in site specific, experimental modes of documentation and presentation. Much of Bolen's work involves rethinking systems of recording in an attempt to observe... read more

Amanda Breitbach

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 9:00am, Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza

Amanda Breitbach

Amanda Breitbach is a photographer and multi-media artist whose research focuses on the complex relationships between people and land. She grew up on a family farm and ranch in eastern Montana. She received dual... read more

Kelvin Burzon

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 8:45am, Lindell Room A - Chase Park Plaza

Kelvin Burzon

Kelvin Burzon is a Filipino artist currently in the third year of his MFA studies at Indiana University's School of Art + Design. He received his Bachelor's from Wabash College where he studied studio... read more

Joy Christiansen-Erb

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 9:00am, Lindell Room B - Chase Park Plaza

Mothering on the Tenure Track: Paths for Choice and Empowerment

Joy Christiansen-Erb: Joy Christiansen Erb is a contemporary photographer and artist whose creative research explores themes such as memory, identity, and storytelling. Her most recent body of work explores the subjects of motherhood and... read more

Serhii Chrucky

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 11:00am, Lindell Room A - Chase Park Plaza

Serhii Chrucky and JaNae Contag

Serhii Chrucky received his BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art. His work has been included in exhibitions at Fort Gondo... read more

Elizabeth M. Claffey

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 9:00am, Lindell Room B - Chase Park Plaza

Mothering on the Tenure Track: Paths for Choice and Empowerment

Elizabeth M. Claffey is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is an honors graduate of Earlham College and has an MFA in photography from Texas Woman's University, where she also... read more

JaNae Contag

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 11:00am, Lindell Room A - Chase Park Plaza

Serhii Chrucky and JaNae Contag

JaNae Contag received her BA in Studio Art, Political Science, and Spanish from Trinity University in San Antonio and her MFA in Visual Art from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at... read more

Rachel Cox

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 11:00am, Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza

Rachel Cox

Rachel Cox lives and works in Dallas, TX. Prints from Cox's series have been presented at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Houston Center for Photography, David Weinberg Gallery in Chicago, and the Philadelphia Photo Art... read more

Katy DeZellar

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 9:10am, Lindell Room A - Chase Park Plaza

Katy DeZellar

Katy DeZellar is a photographer studying at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee working towards a BFA in Art and Design, with minors in Art History and Religious Studies. She creates photographs that focus on... read more