Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Katherine Hope Savelle is a photographer/filmmaker 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

After 32 years of teaching and administrative service at the University of Oregon, Terri Warpinski is now a Professor Emerita of Art dedicated to a full-time practice as a studio artist, curator and art activist.... 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

Jorge Arturo Herrera Nuñez, also known as Cherry Wood, is a Honduran, Canadian American artist who earned both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Fine Arts at the University of Windsor in Canada. Over the... 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