West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Alejandro Cartagena

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 1:00pm, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Cross-currents in Photobook Publishing

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 3:30pm, Univ. of Arizona, CCP Lobby

Panel Book Signings

Alejandro lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of... read more

Coriana Close

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 9:00am, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Coriana Close Lecture

Coriana Close is Assistant Professor and Photography Area Coordinator at The University of Memphis. Her visual research is primarily inspired by, and often constructed from, archival media. She creates both still photographs and appropriated layered... read more

Conor Elliott Fitzgerald

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 10:00am, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Graduate Student Presentations

Conor currently resides in Tucson, where he is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arizona. His photography practice began while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras and El Salvador. Conor's experience in... read more

Rhianna Gallagher

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 10:00am, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Graduate Student Presentations

Rhianna Gallagher received a BA from Humboldt State University in 2013, and is presently working on her MFA at San Jose State University. Her practice is grounded in traditional black and white darkroom, and more... read more

Mishka Henner

Friday, November 04, 2016 @ 7:00pm, Proscenium Theatre, Pima Community College

Keynote Speaker

Mishka Henner is among a new generation redefining the role of photography in the internet age. Since 2010, he has embraced print-on-demand publishing as a means to distribute his work and ideas. In 2013 he... read more

William Jenkins

Friday, November 04, 2016 @ 6:00pm, Proscenium Theatre, Pima Community College

Honored Educators Presentation

William Jenkins majored in economics at St. Lawrence University where, almost by chance, he enrolled in photography workshops by Minor White and Paul Caponigro. Having thus become serious about photography he attended several graduate schools,... read more

Kate Palmer Albers

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 2:30pm, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Kate Palmer Albers Lecture

Kate Palmer Albers is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, where she teaches history and theory of photography, museum studies, and contemporary art at the graduate and undergraduate level. Previously,... read more

Sheila Pinkel

Friday, November 04, 2016 @ 6:00pm, Proscenium Theatre, Pima Community College

Honored Educators Presentation

Since graduating from UCLA with an MFA in 1977, Sheila Pinkel has taught photography at California Institute of the Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois Circle Campus, Otis Art... read more

Atis Puampai

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 10:00am, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Graduate Student Presentations

Atis Puampai is a MFA Candidate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His work primarily focuses on photographing unseen motion with modified analogue cameras. He is currently working on a series "Earth at 970MPH."... read more

Sallie Scheufler

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 10:00am, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Graduate Student Presentations

Sallie Scheufler is currently pursuing her MFA from University of New Mexico. She is an interdisciplinary artist. Scheufler grew up in the Sonoran Desert where she received her BFA from Arizona State University. Focusing on... read more

Mike Slack

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 1:00pm, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Cross-currents in Photobook Publishing

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 3:30pm, Univ. of Arizona, CCP Lobby

Panel Book Signings

Mike Slack is the author of several photobooks including OK OK OK (J&L Books, 2002), Scorpio (The Ice Plant, 2006), and Pyramids (The Ice Plant, 2006), as well as Shrubs of Death (self-published, 2014). His... read more

Mary Virginia Swanson

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 1:00pm, Univ. of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

Cross-currents in Photobook Publishing

Saturday, November 05, 2016 @ 3:30pm, Univ. of Arizona, CCP Lobby

Panel Book Signings

Mary Virginia Swanson is an author and educator who helps artists find the strengths in their work, identify appreciative audiences and present their work in an informed, professional manner. Her seminars and lectures on... read more