South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Kalee Appleton

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 9:00am, 301 Design Building

Leah Dyjak & Kalee Appleton - The Material Landscape: Failure and Fantasy

Kalee Appleton is a photography-based artist and educator living in Dallas. Originally from Hobbs, New Mexico, she attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock and received a B.F.A. (2005) in Photography. Shortly after graduation she worked... read more

Alexandra Bell

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 4:30pm, 103 Design Building

Alexandra Bell- Counternarratives

Alexandra Bell is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the complexities of narrative, information consumption, and perception. Utilizing various media, she deconstructs language and imagery to explore the tension between marginal experiences and dominant histories. Through... read more

Caleb Charland

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 3:00pm, 103 Design Building

Caleb Charland - Paper Mirror

Charland earned a BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as a Trustees Fellow, in 2010, and was... read more

Adam Crosson

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 2:00pm, 401 Design Building

Adam Crosson - The Oxbow Index

Adam Crosson received an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from The University of Texas at Austin where he was a Presidential Scholar. Crosson was a 2016/17 Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts... read more

Dorinth Doherty

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 11:00am, 103 Design Building

Dornith Doherty - Archiving Eden: An 8-Year Art / Science Collaboration

A 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Dornith Doherty received a BA from Rice University and a MFA in Photography from Yale University. She currently resides in Southlake, Texas and is Distinguished Research Professor at the University... read more

Diane Durant

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 11:00am, 301 Design Building

Diane Durant & Julia Wilson - Text & Image Today

Diane Durant is a graduate of Baylor University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and the University of Texas at Dallas, where she currently serves as Senior Lecturer in Photography and Assistant Director of the Photography Program. She... read more

Leah Dyjak

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 9:00am, 301 Design Building

Leah Dyjak & Kalee Appleton - The Material Landscape: Failure and Fantasy

Leah Dyjak is an interdisciplinary, lens-based artist splitting her time between New York and Massachusetts. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her site-specific work combines performance, labor, film, and photography... read more

Mathieu Grenier

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 9:00am, 301 Design Building

Bradley Marshall & Mathieu Grenier - The Exhibition Examined

For the last three years, Mathieu Grenier's work has explored the history of exhibitions and/or specific artworks through re-enactment strategies and the observation of the exhibition space as a photographic component. Free Standing Images examines... read more

Aaron Hegert

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 9:00am, 401 Design Building

Aaron Hegert - Self Publishing in the Post Internet Era

Aaron Hegert is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Texas Tech University. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Indiana University. He is a Fulbright Scholar (Paris 2008),... read more

Chris Ireland

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 10:00am, 301 Design Building

Chris Ireland & H. Jennings Sheffield - Collaboration is Easy ... and other fake news

http://chris-ireland.com His current research is based on representations of family and personal experience through the vernacular of photography. His works have been featured in exhibitions at numerous venues both nationally and internationally, including the... read more

Alfredo Jaar

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 5:30pm, Manship Theatre

Alfredo Jaar - It is Difficult

Lament of the Images, 2002
Three illuminated texts, light screen, text by David Levi Strauss
Overall dimensions variable
Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Museum of Modern Art,... read more

Amy Kim

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 10:00am, 301 Design Building

Amy Kim & Leah Schretenthaler - Altering Surfaces and Making the Optical Tangible

Amy Kim is an MFA candidate at Texas Tech University School of Art. Kim holds an MFA in arts administration from Texas Tech University School of Theatre and Dance and a BA in French from... read more