2022 FotoFocus Biennial Program Week

September 29, Thursday

Taft Museum of Art

4–7pm Member Preview Opening & Reception for Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones

Cincinnati Art Museum

5–8pm Member Preview Opening & Reception for Natural World
A conversation with the artists Jason Allen-Paisant, John Edmonds, and David Hartt, with Cincinnati Art Museum Curator of Photography Nathaniel M. Stein, will begin at 7pm.

September 30, Friday

Michael Lowe Gallery

4–6pm Opening for Tony Oursler: Crossing Neptune

Contemporary Arts Center

5–7pm Members Reception & Tours for On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith; Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s; Baseera Khan: Weight on History
7–8pm Film Screening and Conversation
Introduction by Marcus Margerum, Contemporary Arts Center Interim Director & Chief Business Officer and Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator
View a screening of Dara Friedman’s Dancer (2011, 25 mins), followed by a conversation between Friedman and artist/singer Lizzi Bougatsos.
8pm–12am Public Opening Reception & Performance for On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith; Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s; Baseera Khan: Weight on History, and Cameron Granger: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Heaven

October 1, Saturday

Memorial Hall

9am–4:30pm FotoFocus Daytime Symposium
9am Breakfast
9:45am Opening Remarks by Mary Ellen Goeke, FotoFocus Executive Director
10am Introduction by Kevin Moore: Photographs are the Monuments of Our Online Visual Culture
Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator
10:30am Discussion of Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s
Moderated by: Ariel Goldberg, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Independent Writer and Curator, New York, NY, with panelists: JEB (Joan E. Biren), Photographer, Filmmaker, and Activist, Washington, D.C.; Lola Flash, Photographer, New York, NY; Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Co-coordinator, Lesbian Herstory Archives and Associate Dean, NYU Libraries, New York, NY; and Diana Solís, Photographer and Educator, Chicago, IL
11:30am Artist Talk by Ian Strange
Ian Strange, Transdisciplinary Artist, Perth, Australia
Noon Lunch Break
1pm Artist Talk by Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant, Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
1:30pm Discussion of On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith
Co-moderated by Makeda Best, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, and Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator, with artists: Mitch Epstein, Photographer, Holyoke, MA, and Xaviera Simmons, Artist, New York, NY
2:30pm Conversation with Baseera Khan and Ylinka Barotto
Ylinka Barotto, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Independent Curator, Houston, TX with Baseera Khan, Artist, New York, NY
3:30pm Keynote Lecture by Makeda Best, Devour the Land
Makeda Best, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Art Academy of Cincinnati

6–10pm Opening Reception and Street Party for Ian Strange: Disturbed Home and Annex

October 2, Sunday

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

1–5pm FotoFocus Daytime Symposium
12:45pm Opening Remarks by Mary Ellen Goeke, FotoFocus Executive Director, and Woodrow “Woody” Keown, Jr., President & Chief Operating Officer at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
1pm Reading by Deborah Willis on J.P. Ball
Deborah Willis, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, New York, NY
1:30pm Artist Talk by Myra Greene
Myra Greene, Artist and Photographer, Atlanta, GA
2pm Conversation with Tony Oursler and Kevin Moore
Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator, with Tony Oursler, Artist, New York, NY
3pm Discussion of ‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory
Co-moderated by Cheryl Finley, FotoFocus Guest Curator, Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, and Deborah Willis, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, New York, NY, with artists: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Artist and Assistant Professor at Columbia University, Brooklyn, NY; Daesha Devón Harris, Artist and Photographer, Saratoga Springs, NY; and Wendel A. White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies at Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
4pm Keynote Lecture by Jeff Orlowski-Yang
Jeff Orlowski-Yang, Director, Producer, and Cinematographer, Boulder, CO
5–6pm Reception for ‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory

October 4, Tuesday

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library

5:30–8pm Open Reception & Panel Discussion for City Under Exposure
Participating Venue Event Highlight

Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery

7–8pm Gallery Talk with Artist for Michael Coppage: American+
Participating Venue Event Highlight

October 5, Wednesday

i.imagine at the Cincinnati Zoo

3–5pm Opening Reception, Artist Talk, and Photo Walking Tour for Wildest Dream
Participating Venue Event Highlight
Discounted Admission for Passport Holders

Wave Pool

7–8pm Curator Talk for Photography And Tenderness

October 6, Thursday

Taft Museum of Art

6:30–8pm Curator Talk for Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones

The Garfield Theatre

7–10pm Film Screening of Landfall & Conversation for Jurakán: A Film Series
Participating Venue Event Highlight

October 7, Friday

Xavier University Art Gallery at A.B. Cohen Center

6:30–8:30pm Opening Reception for Searching of Life: Re-growth & Display
Participating Venue Event Highlight

Flag Studio

6–7pm Reception & Gallery Talk for Collecting and Receiving
Participating Venue Event Highlight

October 8, Saturday

Kennedy Heights Art Center

Noon–2pm What’s Left Behind Curator & Artist Talk
Participating Venue Event Highlight

The Carnegie

3:30–5pm Panel Talk for These Things Are Connected
Moderated by author Sergio Aguillón-Mata, featuring curators: Matt Distel, Esther Callahan, Daniel Fuller, Cameron Granger, and Tif Sigfrids for These Things Are Connected at The Carnegie.
5-7pm Reception for These Things Are Connected

CampSITE Sculpture Park

7–9pm Reception and Talk for Liz Roberts: Post Blonde
Introduction by Dennis Harrington, Weston Art Gallery Director