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FotoFocus Daytime Symposium
October 2, 2022, 1:00pm - 5:00pm National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The 2022 Biennial Symposium starts Friday, September 30, with a Film Screening and Conversation featuring Dara Freidman’s Dancer, and continues through Sunday, October 2, with talks, discussions, and keynote addresses at Memorial Hall and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
| 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 and 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 |
| Reception to follow |
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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
50 E Freedom Way
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 333-7500 - Visit the website
Wed–Sun 10am–5pm
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