South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Bradley Marshall

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

Bradley Marshall & Mathieu Grenier - The Exhibition Examined

Bradley Marshall is an artist working in photography and video. His work explores and forms questions around the coming of age narrative and the American suburban and domestic experience. He received his MFA from East... read more

Andrew O'Brien

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 9:00am, 401 Design Building

Andrew O'Brien - Drift Alignment

Andrew O'Brien is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Media Art at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His current work looks at the social, historical, and cultural motivations behind landscape formation and the built... read more

Jared Ragland

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 10:00am, 401 Design Building

Jared Ragland - Where You Come From Is Gone: Examining the Political Dimensions of Remembrance Through the Wet-Plate Collodion Photographic Process

Jared Ragland (MFA Tulane) is a fine art and documentary photographer and former White House photo editor. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Photography at Utah State University. Jared's visual practice incorporates social science,... read more

John Rash

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 2:00pm, 301 Design Building

John Rash - The Creative Identity Complex: An American Documenting China in Stills and Motion

John Rash is a filmmaker, photographer, and video artist who earned his M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Art from Duke University in 2014. John has worked simultaneously in higher education and as a freelance photographer/videographer... read more

Leah Schretenthaler

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

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

Leah Schretenthaler was born and raised in Hawaii. She completed her BFA degree from the University of South Dakota and holds a Masters degree in art education from Boston University. She is currently an MFA... read more

Julie Shafer

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 11:00am, 401 Design Building

Julie Shafer - We are always, only, ever walking in ghosts.

Julie Shafer is a Los Angeles based artist and educator. She works in photography, photographic installation, and creative non-fiction. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Cypress College in Southern California. Shafer received... read more

H. Jennings Sheffield

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

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

H. Jennings Sheffield is a contemporary artist working in lens based media, video and sound. Sheffield received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and her MFA from the University of Texas at San... read more

Julia Kier Wilson

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

Diane Durant & Julia Wilson - Text & Image Today

Julia Kier Wilson is a photographic-based artist who investigates the ways in which language--both visual and verbal--create meaning and ideological perception. Julia's work studies the creation and fluidity of meaning through text and image to... read more

Rana Young

Friday, October 05, 2018 @ 10:00am, 401 Design Building

Rana Young - The Rug's Topography

Rana Young is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska' Lincoln where she was an Othmer... read more