West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Amber Hoy

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 1:00pm, Agate Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

Justice, Representation & Responsibility—Hour 1

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 2:00pm, Agate Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

Justice, Representation & Responsibility—Hour 2

Amber Hoy grew up in Yankton, South Dakota. Hoy enlisted in the US Army and deployed to Iraq as an ammunition specialist from 2006-2007. She received her BA with an emphasis in photography from the... read more

Tarrah Krajnak

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 1:00pm, Emerald Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

The Academic Job Search—Hour 1

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 2:00pm, Emerald Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

The Academic Job Search—Hour 2

Tarrah Krajnak was born in Lima, Peru in 1979. She received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Pitzer College. She taught previously at Cornell University and... read more

Joseph Marotta

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 7:30pm, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

Honored Educators Presentation

Joseph Marotta is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah. His work has been exhibited and collected extensively over the past thirty-five years. His work can... read more

Zora J Murff

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 8:30am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

Fade Like a Sigh

Zora J Murff is an MFA Candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Zora studied Photography at The University of Iowa and holds a BS in Psychology from Iowa State University. Combining his education in human... read more

O. Gustavo Plascencia

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 1:00pm, Crystal Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

Mapping Intersections: Identity, Place & The Body—Hour 1

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 2:00pm, Crystal Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

Mapping Intersections: Identity, Place & The Body—Hour 2

Plascencia is a visual artist and educator whose creative work explores the constructive nature of identity, the conflict that individuals face building their identity and the duality--sometimes conflict--between domesticity and utilitarianism, personal and communal, and... read more

Emma Powell

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 10:40am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

Svala's Saga: A Collaborative Fantasy by Emma Powell and Kirsten Hoving

Emma Powell is an Assistant Professor of Art at Colorado College, where she teaches all levels of photography including; digital printing, alternative processes, and traditional darkroom techniques. Powell has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Powell... read more

Kristen Roles

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 9:10am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

The Same Impossible: Shared Subjectivities, Making Toward Disappearance, and Other Fugitive Becomings

Kristen is currently making fragile images, susceptible objects, and contingent gestures in Albuquerque while teaching photography and pursuing her MFA from the University of New Mexico.

She received her BFA in Studio Art and... read more

Ian Ruhter

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 1:00pm, Ski Hut

Wet Plate Collodion Demonstration—Hour 1

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 2:00pm, Ski Hut

Wet Plate Collodion Demonstration—Hour 2

Photography, which for me had started as an art form, over the last several years has evolved into something less personal and true, a process that has become vapid, much less inspiring, and therefore significantly... read more

Bailey Russel

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 11:40am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

Animals of the West, or How to Collaborate with Scientists

I grew up in New Jersey, attended Princeton for undergrad and NYU for a MA in photography and now teach at the University of Wyoming, a world apart. My work is mostly process based, ranging... read more

Gazelle Samizay

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 11:20am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

Manzanar: Tracing Shadows of Oppression Across Time and Space

Gazelle Samizay's photographs and videos have been exhibited across the US and internationally, and most recently at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach; Whitechapel Gallery, London;... read more

Cintia Segovia

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 8:50am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

All Griefs with Humor are Less

I was born and raised in Mexico City, where worked in the entertainment industry. Learning English in the US as an adult gave me a unique perspective on the language's nuances. I employ video, performance... read more

Paul Stock

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 9:30am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

New Farmers

Paul (b. 1979) was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. His B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology (2001) from Truman State University in northeastern Missouri. After completing his Ph.D. in sociology from Colorado State University(2009),... read more