Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Sam Berger

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 3:00pm, College for Creative Studies

Transmutation

Sam Berger is an artist who received her Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. She now has returned to the Detroit area. As a lens based, and primarily... read more

John H. Clarke has been teaching photography and new-media for the past two decades. Clarke's academic appointments include The University of Arizona, Southwest University of Visual Arts, Central Michigan University, and he is currently... read more

Gina Dabrowski

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 10:00am, College for Creative Studies

Cyanotypes: A hands-on workshop for creating distinctive camera-less Blue prints

Gina Dabrowski is an artist and educator who teaches black and white photography, digital imaging, and alternative processes that include pinhole, platinum, and cyanotype at North Hennepin Community College. She received her MFA from California... read more

Carlos Diaz lives in Brighton, MI. He is currently a Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Photography Department (1995-2000) at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI where he taught for 37 years.
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Robert Dickes

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 1:30pm, College for Creative Studies

Hollywood Portrait Workshop

Rob Dickes is an artist, educator, and commercial photographer. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky. His... read more

Andrea Eis

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 9:20am, Wayne State University

The Carl Toth Archive: Fluent Articulations in a Mutable Medium

Andrea Eis recently retired as Distinguished Professor of Film at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, where she taught since 1983. She has a BA in classics and anthropology/archaeology from Beloit College; BFA in photography, film, and... read more

Dana Fritz

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 1:00pm, College for Creative Studies

Material Ways of Seeing: Using Special Collections and Archives for Inspiration

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

Marcella Hackbardt

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 10:00am, College for Creative Studies

Tablescapes: Veritas and Vanitas

Marcella Hackbardt is a curator, writer, visual artist, and professor of art and photography at Kenyon College in Ohio. She received her MFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She has lectured on the... read more

Andrew Hershberger

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 11:20am, Wayne State University

Gearshifts and Whitewalls: Automobiles in Histories of Photography

Historian of photography Andrew E. Hershberger received a Ph.D. from Princeton. He has been an Ansel Adams Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography in AZ, a Coleman Dowell Fellow at NYU, the inaugural Teti... read more

I am Bob Hewitt, Photo Facilities Manager at the College for Creative Studies. I oversee the departments darkrooms, digital labs, studios, equipment and work study. My MFA is from the School of the Art Institute... read more

Delaney Hoffman (they/them) is an artist, writer, and image maker exploring the misinformation economy through photographs, sound and sculpture. They primarily work between the darkroom and the woodshop to produce works that blur the line... read more

Deborah Hollis

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 1:00pm, College for Creative Studies

Material Ways of Seeing: Using Special Collections and Archives for Inspiration

Deborah Hollis is a professor on the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries faculty and curates special subject collections of rare books in Boulder, Colorado.  With over twenty-five years of experience acquiring unique materials such as... read more