Thursday September 29, 2022
Passport-holder exclusive. The museum welcomes Members and FotoFocus Passport Holders to celebrate the opening of Natural World with a self-guided exhibition preview and refreshments. Co-hosts for the evening include FotoFocus and The Donald P. Sowell Endowment Committee.
A conversation with the artists Jason Allen-Paisant, John Edmonds, and David Hartt, with Curator of Photography Nathaniel M. Stein, will begin at 7pm.
*Complimentary shuttle service runs continuously between Cincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum of Art throughout the evening, with service available for Members and FotoFocus Passport Holders.
In celebration of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, J.P. Ball: A Black Daguerreotypist, Entrepreneur, and Activist in 19th Century Cincinnati join us for a reception and talk by University of Cincinnati Art History Professor Theresa Leininger-Miller. Reservation Required: https://mercantilelibrary.com/calendar/fotofocus-exhibit-opening-james-presley-ball/
Friday September 30, 2022
Saturday October 1, 2022
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 Reading 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, Artists, 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
Sunday October 2, 2022
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, Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies at Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, and TBC...
4pm Keynote Lecture by Jeff Orlowski-Yang
Jeff Orlowski-Yang, Director, Producer, and Cinematographer, Boulder, CO
Reception to follow
Monday October 3, 2022
Tuesday October 4, 2022
Reception & Panel Discussion: Exploring the Historical Archive: How a Community of Users Can Give Different Perspectives for New Understandings. Britni Bicknaver (Artist/Educator), James DaMico (Archivist/Curator), and Larry Richmond (Mgr. Local History, Genealogy) discuss the impact of our historical visual archives on understanding collective moments.
Wednesday October 5, 2022
Thursday October 6, 2022
Friday October 7, 2022
Saturday October 8, 2022
About the 2022 MWSPE Regional Conference: This year's theme highlights works concerned with the ebb and flow of social, political, and artistic trends and how these tropes and themes can return with differing focus and intensity. This conference and corresponding exhibitions focus on the incoming swell of ideas, explorations, and concerns of artists within the Midwest and how they see, process, and contextualize the recurrence and reemergence of social, political, and artistic tropes and trends in their own practices. In turn, this conference will serve as an artistic interpretation of world events / records from the perspective of artists from across the Midwest.
Sunday October 9, 2022
Monday October 10, 2022
Wednesday October 12, 2022
Thursday October 13, 2022
The lecture is at 4pm until 5pm at the Meyer's Gallery on the UC Main Campus. Paul Briol documented Cincinnati for several decades and the photographs in the exhibition were selected from the prints in the UC collection. Maureen France, photographer and Professor of Design at UC, will discuss Briol's work in the exhibition space.
Friday October 14, 2022
Saturday October 15, 2022
Sunday October 16, 2022
Tuesday October 18, 2022
Wednesday October 19, 2022
Thursday October 20, 2022
Friday October 21, 2022
The Summit Gallery opening reception features an immersive installation as well as additional works created during the Maidens’ year-long Summit Hotel residency. For the Artist Talk the artists behind the fictional group, Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running, discuss strategies and challenges related to their year-long residency at the Summit Hotel, and their work in general with a performance to follow.
Artist Talk: 6-7pm
Performance: 7:30-8pm
Saturday October 22, 2022
Sunday October 23, 2022
Wednesday October 26, 2022
Thursday October 27, 2022
Friday October 28, 2022
Saturday October 29, 2022
Thursday November 3, 2022
Friday November 4, 2022
Wednesday November 9, 2022
Saturday November 19, 2022
Thursday December 1, 2022
Friday December 2, 2022
Thursday December 8, 2022
Wednesday January 18, 2023
Against the backdrop of the exhibition Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic Record by J. Miles Wolf, enjoy an illustrated lecture by Skirball Museum director and exhibition curator Abby Schwartz about Cincinnati’s rich legacy of Jewish art and history. Visit the exhibition following the lecture with Schwartz and photographer J. Miles Wolf.