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María Antonia Blanco Arroyo

María Antonia Blanco Arroyo

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 2:30pm, Embassy Suites, Fon du Lac A-C

Altered Landscapes: Contemporary Photography in the Anthropocene

María Antonia Blanco is a scholar and artist based in Seville, Spain. She holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University of Seville, and she has taught History of Contemporary Art at the Faculty... read more

Clarissa Bonet

Clarissa Bonet

Saturday, October 14, 2017 @ 11:00am,

Urban Constructs: City Space + Stray Light

Clarissa Bonet is a Chicago based artist. She was earned an M.F.A. in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and a B.S. in Photography from the University of Central Florida. Her work resides in the collections... read more

Ian Campbell

Ian Campbell

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 11:00am, Embassy Suites, Fon du Lac A-C

Ghost Flowers: A Botanical Catalog of Non-Place

Ian Campbell is an Arkansas-based artist and educator. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Lyon College in Batesville, AR. Ian holds an MFA in Photography + Integrated Media from Ohio University, and a BA... read more

Mónica Carabias Álvaro

Mónica Carabias Álvaro

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 2:30pm, Embassy Suites, Fon du Lac A-C

Altered Landscapes: Contemporary Photography in the Anthropocene

Professor and curator Mónica Carabias Álvaro holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art from the University Complutense of Madrid, and she is an specialist in Conservation and Restoration of Urban Heritage. She teaches Contemporary Art and... read more

Javier Carmona

Javier Carmona

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 2:30pm, Embassy Suites, River G-H

Shark Tank: Photography Book Edition

Javier Carmona lives and works in the Chicago area, while realizing many recent projects in Mexico and Italy. He is a Professor of Photography and head of Digital Cinema at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. Carmona... read more

Elizabeth M. Claffey

Elizabeth M. Claffey

Thursday, October 12, 2017 @ 7:30pm, Illinois Central College Art Gallery, 1 College Dr

Exhibition and Reception: Matrilinear

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

Chadric Devin

Chadric Devin

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 6:30pm, Bradley University - Heuser Art Center Catwalk

Gallery Night: Alternative Processes

Saturday, October 14, 2017 @ 9:00am, Bradley University, Heuser Art Center, Room 300

The Physical Image: Van Dyke Brown Workshop

Chadric Devin holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently an Instructor of Art at Central Community College-Columbus where he teaches drawing, printmaking and painting as well as... read more

Sean Dyroff

Sean Dyroff

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 6:30pm, Bradley University - Heuser Art Center Catwalk

Gallery Night: Alternative Processes

Sunday, October 15, 2017 @ 9:00am, Bradley Univ., Heuser Art Ctr., digital darkroom

DASS Sauce Inkjet Transparency Transfer Workshop

Sean Dyroff recently relocated to Cleveland, Ohio. He currently focuses on making books and photographs, but is also fond of typing sweet nothings into computer terminals at any time of the day and carrying around... read more

Juan Fernandez

Juan Fernandez

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 6:30pm, Bradley University - Heuser Art Center Catwalk

Gallery Night: Alternative Processes

Sunday, October 15, 2017 @ 9:00am, Bradley University, Heuser Art Center, darkroom

Wet Plate Collodion Photogram Workshop

Juan Fernandez is an artist based in the suburbs of Chicago. He has taught photography at Elgin Community College, Northern Illinois University, Waubonsee Community College, and Grand Rapids Community College. His work references the perceptions... read more

Jason Flack

Jason Flack

Sunday, October 15, 2017 @ 10:00am, Bradley University

Spending Other People’s Money: The Craft and Joy of Grant Writing

Jason Flack is an artist and educator living in Rochester, New York. He has written and received over $250,000 in grants to procure equipment and facilities upgrades in educational settings. He teaches photography and... read more

William Fox

William Fox

Saturday, October 14, 2017 @ 1:45pm, Embassy Suites, River G-J

Featured Speaker: William L. Fox

William L. Fox is a writer whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. His numerous nonfiction books rely upon fieldwork with artists and scientists in extreme environments to... read more

Dana Fritz

Dana Fritz

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 11:00am, Embassy Suites, River G-H

The Imagined Landscape

Friday, October 13, 2017 @ 7:00pm, Peoria Public Library

Gallery Night: Views Removed

Dana Fritz is the Hixson-Lied Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Through photography and artist books, she investigates the ways we shape and represent the natural world in cultivated and constructed landscapes. Her... read more

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