West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Center for Cultural Innovation

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was founded in 2001 as a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Its mission is to promote knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing... read more

Doug Dertinger

Doug Dertinger lives and works in Sacramento, CA where he is an assistant professor of photography at Sacramento State University and a volunteer professor at Patterson University's Prison Program at San Quentin State Prison, CA.... read more

Darius Himes

Darius Himes is Assistant Director of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. He is a co-founder of Radius Books, a non-profit publisher of books on photography and the visual arts, where he serves on the Board and... read more

Chris Johnson

Saturday, October 06, 2012 @ 2:30pm, Nahl Hall

Question Bridge: Black Males

Chris Johnson is a photographic and video artist, writer, curator and arts administrator. He studied photography with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Wynn Bullock.

In 1994 with Suzanne Lacy he co-produced with a large... read more

Richard Newman

Richard Newman has worked in media production for the past four decades. He was part of the "Hill Street Blues" Emmy Awardwinning sound team and was awarded a Golden Reel Award for his sound work... read more

Nigel Poor

Saturday, October 06, 2012 @ 3:30pm, Nahl Hall

San Quentin Prison University Project

Nigel Poor's work has been shown at: San Jose Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Friends of Photography, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary... read more

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Saturday, October 06, 2012 @ 7:30pm, Nahl Lecture Hall

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York, 1968, lived and worked in Argentina from 1970 until 2003, and is currently based in San Francisco., A recipient of numerous awards: a Guggenheim Foundation... read more

Esther Teichmann

Saturday, October 06, 2012 @ 5:30pm, Nahl Hall

Esther Teichmann

German–American artist Esther Teichmann (b. 1980) received a Masters of Fine Art from the Royal College of Art in 2005 and a PhD by project also from the RCA in 2011. She continues to live... read more