Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Jeffrey Sauger

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 3:20pm, Wayne State University

Where Furrows Run Deep

Jeffrey Sauger grew up in Troy, Michigan. He has a BAA in Journalism from CMU and was the Photo Editor of CM Life, the student-run newspaper. After eight years at the Newport (RI) Daily News,... read more

Katherine Hope Savelle

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 2:20pm, Wayne State University

Practicing Revolution

Katherine Hope Savelle is an artist based in the metro Detroit area of Michigan, USA. She received her degree as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College for Creative Studies in 2025. Her motivation... read more

Christopher Schneberger

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 9:00am, Wayne State University

Gaining Perspective: Stereo Photography in the Classroom

Christopher Schneberger is a photographer, educator, and curator. Exhibitions include: Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles; Dorsky Projects in New York City; Geocarto International in Hong Kong; Blank Wall Gallery in Athens; and a... read more

Through photography, film, performance and sculpture, Sheida Soleimani offers both a poignant analysis of image-building in the contemporary media landscape and a critical view on international politics and its power relationships. Source images from press... read more

Sarah Thomas

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 2:40pm, Wayne State University

Transparency in a world of plastic waste

Sarah Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist and photographer based in the Toledo, OH. She received her BFA from Bowling Green State University in 2013 and received her MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art... read more

Terri Warpinski

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 1:00pm, Wayne State University

Creative Lineage: The Significance of Artistic Mentor Relationships

Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural and natural histories through her lens-based, mixed media creative practice. Her current work, Restless Earth, draws attention to her home ground in the Great Lakes Watershed... read more

Shelby Welte

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 9:40am, College for Creative Studies

The Authority of Legacy

Shelby Rayne Welte is an experimental based photographer, papermaker, and bookmaker born and raised in Illinois whose work focuses on relationships through the lens of her family archive. She received her B.A. in Film &... read more

Cherry Wood

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 10:20am, Wayne State University

Patterns steps away from performance, seeking new ways to speak through art

Cherry Wood, is an artist with a Bachelor and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Canada. Over the past few years, he has attended art residencies across Europe, Mexico, and... read more

Fengyi Xu

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 10:40am, College for Creative Studies

At the Threshold

Fengyi Xu was born and raised in China, where she studied literature at Northwestern University in Xi'an. She immigrated to the United States and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Bowling Green State... read more

Zihan Yuan

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 9:00am, Wayne State University

Bodhisattva with a Camera: Reimagining Subjectivities in Photography Portraiture

Zihan Yuan is a senior at Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she leads a Philosophy Club while serving her community through image-making. Born and raised in Kunming, on China's southwestern periphery, she has... read more

Rebecca Zeiss

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

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

Rebecca Zeiss MFA currently teaches design, photography and printmaking at the University of Michigan Flint. Frequently Ms. Zeiss uses a large format camera with antiquarian processes such as wet plate collodion, tintypes and ambrotypes, cyanotypes,... read more