Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Eric Lutz

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 10:30am, Lindell Room B - Chase Park Plaza

Getting Seen, Getting Shown

Eric Lutz is Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. He earned a Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He served as a... read more

Bridget Melloy

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 10:30am, Lindell Room B - Chase Park Plaza

Getting Seen, Getting Shown

Bridget Melloy is the Senior Director of projects+gallery, Barrett Barrera Projects' affiliate art gallery, where she is responsible for the oversight of efficient day-to-day operations and proper administration of the gallery's artistic direction. read more

Ben Schonberger

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

Ben Schonberger

Ben Schonberger is an artist and art teacher currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. Utilizing photography, appropriated
imagery, digital montage, and performance his work examines the complexities of identity through social
investigations. Ben has exhibited nationally... read more

James Robert Southard

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

James Robert Southard

Soon after I received my MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011, I started working on video and large scale digital photographs. Many of them were created while working as an artist in resident at... read more

Mark Valentine Sullivan

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 11:00am, Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza

Peter Glendinning/ Mark Sullivan

Mark Valentine Sullivan is photographer, composer, and educator. His images have been featured in books and exhibitions, and licensed by major agencies, and his compositions performed widely. He has taught photography, and music composition, computer... read more

Aimee Tomasek

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

When Must We Say Yes? Low Budget, Community-University, Social Justice Projects for the Common Good

Aimee Tomasek (MFA, University of Kentucky) is a documentary photographer addressing social and cultural relationships between industry and regionalism alongside personal institutions such as faith, ethnic foundations, and community. She chairs the art department at... read more

Adrian O. Walker

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 3:00pm, Lindell Ballroom - Chase Park Plaza

Art on Protest

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri currently based in Oakland, California working as a curator at VSCO. After earning my Bachelor of Arts degrees in sociology and photography from the University of Missouri-St. Louis,... read more

Roseann Weiss

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 10:30am, Lindell Room B - Chase Park Plaza

Getting Seen, Getting Shown

Roseann Weiss is Director of Artist and Community Initiatives at the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. In this position, she guides the Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute - a cross-sector program centered on the... read more

Morgan Willingham

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

Mothering on the Tenure Track: Paths for Choice and Empowerment

Morgan Ford Willingham is a photographic artist who incorporates mixed media and book arts into her photographic practice. She currently teaches photography at Emporia State University in Emporia, KS. Her work addresses social issues dealing... read more

Dr. Deborah Willis

Thursday, October 06, 2016 @ 7:00pm, Lindell Ballroom - Chase Park Plaza

Dr. Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of... read more

Liz Wuerffel

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

When Must We Say Yes? Low Budget, Community-University, Social Justice Projects for the Common Good

Liz Wuerffel (MFA, Columbia College Chicago) is an artist, filmmaker, and professor at Valparaiso University. She co-directs the Welcome Project (welcomeproject.valpo.edu), a first-person story collection about identity and inclusion. read more

Rana Young

Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 9:30am, Lindell Room A - Chase Park Plaza

Rana Young

Lie and Smile is an image-based series responding to my mother's archive and absence, through which I construct prosthetic memories to reinterpret her life and embalm her death. Since 2017, I've been investigating her lived... read more