South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

MJ Alexander

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 1:00pm, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom A

“Making it!”: Oklahoma City Based Professional Photographers Discuss their Careers and Current Trends Today

M.J. Alexander is a writer and photographer who documents people and places of the Great Plains and American West. The International Photography Hall of Fame describes her work as “combining the vision of an artist... read more

Megan Badger

Saturday, September 26, 2015 @ 1:00pm, University of Oklahoma - FJC 203

All of Our Secrets Are the Same

Megan Badger is a photographer, mixed-media artist and educator working in Houston, Texas. Her work has strong ties to the metaphysical and the poetic, and it stems from personal narratives that are veiled by her... read more

Sunday Ballew

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 1:00pm, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Mezzanine

Integrating Experience: Incorporating performance, time-based and three-dimensional media into photographic practice

Sunday Ballew is a multimedia artist (video, film, photo, text & sound), educator and activist that is working towards making the world a better place, one creative project at a time. She believes inspired art... read more

Nate Billings

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 1:00pm, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom A

“Making it!”: Oklahoma City Based Professional Photographers Discuss their Careers and Current Trends Today

Nate Billings never planned to become a photojournalist. He took pictures as a hobby growing up and worked as an assistant for his father, a commercial still and video photographer, but chose to study English... read more

Lily Brooks

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 9:00am, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom A

We Have to Count the Clouds

Lily Brooks holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and featured in... read more

Hannah Cooper McCauley

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 9:00am, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Mezzanine

Graduate Student Panel

Hannah Cooper McCauley (b.1989, Tupelo, MS) received a BFA from Jacksonville State University in 2012 and is currently pursuing an MFA from Louisiana Tech University. She enjoys working in narrative photography, both digital and analogue,... read more

Stephen Crompton

Saturday, September 26, 2015 @ 9:00am, University of Oklahoma - FJC 203

The American Mall

Stephen Crompton is a British filmmaker and photographer whose work explores the American-made landscape. His work has featured in festivals and exhibitions in the US and abroad, including the Virginia Film Festival, Strange Beauty Film... read more

Brett Deering

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 1:00pm, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom A

“Making it!”: Oklahoma City Based Professional Photographers Discuss their Careers and Current Trends Today

Brett Deering is an Oklahoma City based photographer focusing primarily on commercial and editorial location portraiture, along with architecture and journalism and the occasional special and unit production for the film industry. Editorial clients include... read more

Sarah Engel-Barnett

Saturday, September 26, 2015 @ 10:00am, University of Oklahoma - FJC 203

Future Kansas, New Texas, and The Cyber Okies: Images of Speculative Regional Reactions to Climate Change

Sarah Engel-Barnett is a multidisciplinary artist. She received both her BFA in Media Art and MFA with an emphasis in photography from the University of Oklahoma. In 2014, Sarah founded the Digital Photography Program at... read more

Dan Farnum

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 10:00am, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom A

Photographing in the Shadows of Tulsa’s Legends

Dan Farnum was born in the blue-collar town of Saginaw, Michigan. His photographs address the American experience, landscape, and culture and have been showcased nationally in several exhibitions and galleries in San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia,... read more

Colleen Fitzgerld

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 10:00am, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom B

A Collaborative Practice Course within a Photography Department: A Case Study

Colleen Fitzgerald is a visual artist and educator. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography, Visiting, at Memphis College of Art and works out of Memphis, Tennessee and the Northeast. She has also taught... read more

Marita Gootee

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 2:00pm, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom B

Talking to Ghosts

Marita Gootee is a Professor of Art at Mississippi State University. She received a MFA from Indiana State University in 1985 and a BA from the College of Mount Saint Joseph on the Ohio in... read more