Northeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Robin Michals

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 12:15pm, Lecture Center 102

Pecha Kucha Presentations

Robin Michals is a photographer whose work explores the specificity of place with a focus on environmental issues. Trained as a painter, she uses the color of light at the end of the day to... read more

Jen Moon

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 12:15pm, Lecture Center 102

Pecha Kucha Presentations

Jen Moon is an artist and educator living in Rochester, New York. Throughout her career she has photographed the landscape to question how we use space and ways in which it shapes our both social... read more

Susan Morelock

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 3:15pm, Lecture Center 102

Landscapes Alike: Perceptions of Practice from Teacher/Student to the Present

Susan Morelock is an artist whose practice is compelled at once by beauty and theory. Her photographs have been widely exhibited in venues across the United States as well as in Italy and South Korea.... read more

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Sepuya's recent works queer the historically sexualized space of the photographer's studio, using reflection, fragmentation, and formalism to complicate and choreograph the voyeuristic relationship between viewer and subject. These constructed images, in which information is... read more

John Murphy

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 12:15pm, Lecture Center 102

Pecha Kucha Presentations

John Murphy (b. 1997, New York) is a photographer and visual artist who will receive his Bachelors in Fine Arts in the spring of 2019. His ongoing work is an exploration of the gay male... read more

Marc Ohrem-Leclef

Sunday, October 07, 2018 @ 2:00pm, Lecture Center 102

Imagemaker Presentation: Jugaad / Of Intimacy and Love

Marc Ohrem-Leclef (German, based in Brooklyn, NY) collaborates with communities-whether they are formed by bloodlines, social circumstance or cultural movement-to generate visibility for people and issues lacking representation. A MacDowell Colony Fellow (2018), his photographs... read more

Dan Pavsic

Sunday, October 07, 2018 @ 10:00am, Lecture Center 102

Pecha Kucha Presentations

Dan Pavsic is an emerging artist who focuses on the documentation and subsequent interpretation of the ever-changing social and cultural climates he finds himself in. Dan draws inspiration from his roots in skateboard culture and... read more

Morgan Post

Sunday, October 07, 2018 @ 3:30pm, Lecture Center 102

Imagemaker Presentation: Utah's Uranium: Seen and Unseen

Morgan Post's current project explores the environmental impact of the mining and refining of radiological materials. His focus is to educate the public on the widespread ecological and anthropogenic disaster pertaining to mining uranium in... read more

Andreas Rentsch

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 12:15pm, Lecture Center 102

Pecha Kucha Presentations

Andreas Rentsch teaches photography at Lycoming College. Having grown up on a prison compound where his father was the warden, Andreas' work is an ongoing exploration of the connection of fate, geography and politics in... read more

Alejandro Rubin

Sunday, October 07, 2018 @ 10:00am, Lecture Center 102

Pecha Kucha Presentations

I was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After finishing high school I came to the United States with scholarships to learn and grow professionally in the arts, and to practice swimming at a competitive... read more

Steven Rubin

Saturday, October 06, 2018 @ 1:50pm, Lecture Center 102

Imagemaker Presentation: Shale Play: Poems & Photographs from the Fracking Fields

Steven Rubin is a documentary photographer whose work highlights numerous critical and contemporary issues including rural poverty, health equity, refugee migration, immigrant detention, and the social and environmental impacts of energy development. He has photographed... read more

Kimberly Ruth

Sunday, October 07, 2018 @ 10:00am, Lecture Center 102

Pecha Kucha Presentations

Kimberly Ruth is a New York based multimedia artist. Her work explores the failures and inconsistencies of language, especially in the digital age. Through text, photography, video and performance, she works to unveil, de-construct, poke... read more