The Lens

Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth, Biennial Director of FotoFocus, will moderate a discussion with regional curators regarding current exhibitions for the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record. The FotoFocus Biennial, the largest photography biennial in America, presents over 100 projects at 90 venues throughout the month of October, including museums, galleries, universities, and public spaces throughout Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton, and Columbus, Ohio. Panelists include: Maria Seda-Reeder, Director of Exhibitions and Artist Support Initiatives at Wave Pool: A Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center, venue for exhibition, Photography and Tenderness Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions at Miami University Art Museum and curator of A Lens for Freedom: Civil Rights Photography... Continue reading World Record: 2022 FotoFocus Biennial Exhibitions Panel

A 60-minute love letter to our collective trade in stereotypes and the pleasures and perils of being Black. *Parental discretion is advised* 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... Continue reading SPE Midwest Conference Keynote Lecture: Zora J Murff

FotoFocus and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra present Sun Dogs. Named after an atmospheric optical phenomenon, the program features pairs of composers and filmmakers in collaboration, each offering a unique perspective of the natural world through short-format films fused with new music performed by the CSO, conducted by CSO Creative Partner, Matthias Pintscher. Produced in collaboration with Liquid Music as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record, Sun Dogs seeks to understand the natural world that cannot be touched or measured. Typically a composer responds to a director’s ideas in a film scoring capacity, or a filmmaker is given music to respond to visually,... Continue reading Sun Dogs Performance

FotoFocus and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra present Sun Dogs. Named after an atmospheric optical phenomenon, the program features pairs of composers and filmmakers in collaboration, each offering a unique perspective of the natural world through short-format films fused with new music performed by the CSO, conducted by CSO Creative Partner, Matthias Pintscher. Produced in collaboration with Liquid Music as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record, Sun Dogs seeks to understand the natural world that cannot be touched or measured. Typically a composer responds to a director’s ideas in a film scoring capacity, or a filmmaker is given music to respond to visually,... Continue reading Sun Dogs Performance