South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Todd Hido

Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 3:00pm, WCAD 101

Keynote Speaker

Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 4:00pm, WCAD Lobby

Exhibition Reception

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections... read more

Ameen Abdallah

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 4:30pm, WCAD 101

"I CAME HERE LOOKING"

Ameen Abdallah is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist working across photography, sculpture, video, and mixed media and a second year MFA student at Texas Tech University. His practice explores African identity, family, memory, and movements through... read more

Lauren Allen

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 10:00am, WCAD 205 (Darkroom)

Lumen Print Workshop

Lauren's work is an exploration of the psychological aspects that influence our ideas of self. Utilizing abstracted photographic imagery and fiber, viewers are encouraged to reflect on their own conscious and unconscious identity. read more

Amanda Breitbach

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 2:30pm, WCAD 101

Picturing the Invisible

Amanda Breitbach is an artist, educator, and mother who researches relationships between people and land. Her current project, Oil and Water, examines conflicting interests on the Texas Coast. Breitbach earned degrees from Montana State University... read more

Brianna Burnett

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 10:00am, WCAD 220

Zines! Mini-Photo Pamphlets! Quick Handmade Books!

Brianna Burnett is an artist, educator, and her current art demonstrates her evolving investigation of how photography can serve as both document and metaphor for memory and place. Through her practice and community leadership, Burnett... read more

Rose Cunningham

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 5:15pm, WCAD 101

The Chasm of the Reach: Photographic Strategies in Queering Desire

Rose Cunningham is an artist whose projects muse on queer desire, using analogue photographic processes to challenge the history of mage-making and engage the hapticality of photographic objects. She holds a BFA School of... read more

Dillon Bryant (b. Spearfish, SD) makes images, objects, and scripts exploring history, land and the American West. A finalist for the Windgate Accelerator Grant, Bryant was an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center... read more

Maryam (Nilu) Ghasempour Siahgaldeh

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 5:00pm, WCAD 101

Tāsiyān: What Remains Across Distance

Maryam (Nilu) Ghasempour Siahgaldeh is an Iranian artist and MFA candidate in Photography at Kansas State University. Her work moves between documentary and conceptual photography, focusing on migration, memory, and displacement. Through archival and layered... read more

Sierra Greenslade

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 12:00pm, WCAD 101

Focus. Aim. Trigger. Shoot.

Sierra Greenslade is a lens-based artist from Pampa, Texas, living and working in Dallas. Her work explores feminism and family archives. Through photography, collage, and performance, Greenslade investigates the power in what we inherit. read more

Colby Kohn

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 4:45pm, WCAD 101

One Step Forward, Ten Steps Back: Learning Through Failure

Colby Edward Kohn is a lens-based artist and MFA candidate at Texas Christian University. His work uses photography, sculpture, and
constructed environments to examine collective memory, public space, vulnerability, and the systems that shape everyday... read more

Michael Mulvey

Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 11:00am, WCAD 101

Chapter Meeting

Michael Mulvey is a Texas-based artist, educator, and journalist specializing in storytelling. His MFA is from Texas Women's University. In 2006, Mulvey was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News... read more

William Nieberding

Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 9:00am, Outside WCAD

Tintype Portraits on Location

Bill Nieberding is Associate Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. He has been investigating the wet-plate collodion process for a little over 5 years on both aluminum and glass. He holds a Ph.D. in... read more