Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Kyle Agnew

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 1:00pm, RM 909

...About You: A Look at Queer Love and the Landscape

Kyle Agnew is an Indiana native who received his BFA from the University of Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana and is currently pursuing his MFA at The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Kyle's practice... read more

Keith Davis

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 11:00am, RM 905

Jeffrey Wolin- Measuring Time

Keith Davis received a B.S. in Photography from Southern Illinois University, and an MA in Art History, (photography), from the University of New Mexico. Davis served as Curator of the Hallmark photography collection before founding... read more

Abbey Hepner

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 2:00pm, RM 905

The Light at the End of History

Abbey Hepner is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. She frequently works at the intersection of art and science,... read more

Daniel Hojnacki

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 12:00pm, Darkroom - Columbia College Chicago

Cliché Verre Workshop

Through experimental approaches to the apparatus of the camera and alternative printing techniques, Daniel investigates the quietness of being an observer within the world. Creating work that explores materiality of the image through emotional responses... read more

Karen Irvine

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 11:00am, RM 905

Jeffrey Wolin- Measuring Time

Karen Irvine is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. She has organized over sixty exhibitions of contemporary photography, at the MoCP and other venues including... read more

Lali Khalid

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 6:00pm, Ferguson Auditorium, 1st Floor

Lali Khalid

Lali Khalid is a visual artist living and working in the US. She holds a B.F.A. in printmaking from the National College of Arts in Lahore (2003) and an M.F.A. in Photography from Pratt Institute... read more

Erica McKeehen

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 3:00pm, RM 905

Framing Perspectives: Picturing Sex Workers

Erica McKeehen is an artist, performer, and educator. McKeehen works with images and text to create long-form documentaries about herself and fellow sex workers and burlesque entertainers, most interested in photographer-sitter relationships, performativity, visibility/representation, and... read more

Joseph Mougel

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 1:00pm, RM 905

Collaborations with the Natural World: Experiments, Follies, and Discoveries

After serving as a combat correspondent in the US Marine Corps, Joseph Mougel completed studies at University of Georgia and University of New Mexico. He has created site-responsive work spanning photography, video, and performance for... read more

Eleanor Oakes

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 11:00am, RM 909

milk and tears

Eleanor Oakes is Assistant Professor of Photography at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. Her recent exhibitions include solo presentations at Belle Isle Viewing Room (Detroit) and the University of Notre Dame, and group... read more

Terry Ratzlaff

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 9:00am, RM 905

The Marches: A Photographic Labyrinth of Time, Memory, and Absence.

Terry A. Ratzlaff's particular obsession with trains and time--and the point in which these phenomena collide -- informs his current artistic research on time, vision, and modernity. Working primarily in photography and book art, his... read more

Christopher Schneberger

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 11:00am, RM 905

Jeffrey Wolin- Measuring Time

Christopher Schneberger is a photographer and educator in Chicago. He is adjunct faculty at Columbia College and the College of DuPage. His work has been exhibited at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles,... read more

Kristin Taylor

Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 10:00am, RM 913

Exhibitions as Creative Practice

Kristin Taylor is Curator of Academic Programs & Collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, where she also teaches in the photography department. She has organized the MoCP exhibitions Beyond the Frame... read more