Schedule

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Morning Session: Material Economics

Centering on the materials of photographic processes, such as silver, platinum, and bitumen, these conversations consider photography’s embeddedness with economies of mining, industrialization, land use, and environmental degradation.

9am	Light Bites and Coffee
9:45am	Welcome
10am	Panel: Photography’s Resource Dependencies Moderated by Monica Bravo, Assistant Professor at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, with panelists: Katherine “Kappy” Mintie, Head of Collections at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; and Kristen Gaylord, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
11am	Artist Spotlight: Lauren Bon Lauren Bon, Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles, CA
11:30am	Break
Noon	Conversation: Lee Ann Daffner and Alison Rossiter Lee Ann Daffner, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservator of Photographs at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and Alison Rossiter, Photographer, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
1pm	Lunch

Afternoon Session: Social Economics

The afternoon session examines photography’s role in communicating the human consequences of extractive capitalism, documenting and disseminating narratives ranging from post-industrial poverty to boom-time wealth.

2pm	Critic Spotlight: Danielle Jackson on Tulsa Danielle Jackson, Critic and Researcher, Bronx, NY
2:30pm	*Panel: After Allan Sekula’s* Fish Story** Moderated by Benjamin Young, Clinical Assistant Professor of Art History & Museum Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, with panelists: Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Riverside, CA; and Jill Dawsey, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
3:30pm	Break
4pm	Artist Spotlight: Katy Grannan Katy Grannan, Photographer, Big Lagoon, CA
4:30pm	Keynote Conversation: Mitch Epstein and Robert Slifkin Mitch Epstein, Photographer, New York, NY; and Robert Slifkin, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, New York, NY
6–8pm	Red Cedars Performance and Reception Red Cedars: Patrick Kennedy, Musician, Petersburg, KY; and Dinah Devoto, Musician, Villa Hills, KY

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