The d.i.y. panel discussion series at the Columbia College Chicago Library focuses on ‘do it yourself’ fields, in which many from the Columbia community are active.
Each session brings together three independent artists who share their work experience and discuss the evolution of and inspiration for their art, ingredients for success, and advice for up-and-coming artists.
Podcasts will be available for most sessions.
Next Session: THURSDAY, October 22, 2009, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Library, 3rd Floor
Alternative Perspectives: Photography
Gain insights into the world of professional photography. Join the director of Columbia's MoCP and two professional photographers to hear perspectives on collecting work, curating shows, and getting your work seen.
Jodi Adams received her BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2008. Her work was recently exhibited in Champaign and Chicago, Illinois galleries and in shows and exhibits at Columbia College Chicago. She was selected for the 2008 All Staff Arts & Media Award at Columbia College for her Carwash Project and she was a David R. Rubin Scholarship recipient. Publications include pieces in South Loop Review, vol. 10, the Best of Photography Annual, Champaign News Gazette, and Buzz. She served as the chair of the John H. White Photojournalism Seminar and developed the John H. White, Keep in Flight Scholarship at Columbia College Chicago. Jodi also was curator of the Columbia College Critical Encounters Human/Nature Faculty Exhibit in 2009 and as co-curator of the Human/Nature Photography Exhibition in 2008.
Curtis Mann received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago in 2008 and received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton in 2002. His recent photographic work helped him receive SPE's top student award, the Crystal Apple in 2006, a Follett full tuition fellowship from Columbia College Chicago, three Albert P. Weisman Memorial Project Grants and nomination for the Santa Fe Award for 2007 and 2009. Curtis had a solo show of his Modifications work at the Kusseneers Gallery of Antwerp, Belgium in the Fall of 2008 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago as part of their UBS 12x12 series in February 2009. A book of the Modifications series was recently released by Aperture Books as part of the Midwest Photographers Publication Project.
Rod Slemmons has served as the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago since 2002. A museum professional, teacher, curator, writer, editor and printmaker, Rod teaches undergraduate classes and graduate seminars at Columbia College Chicago and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously, he taught photography and museum studies courses for twelve years at the University of Washington, Seattle and before that, he was the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Seattle Art Museum for fourteen years. He has served as a peer review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and as a grant reader and site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Rod has organized numerous exhibitions including: Diane Arbus; Like a One-Eyed Cat - a 30-year retrospective of the photography of Lee Friedlander; Shadowy Evidence: the Art of E. S. Curtis and his Contemporaries; Persistence of Vision - a retrospective of the digital work of Paul Berger; and Witness: Contemporary Mexican Journalism. His essays and reviews have appeared in dozens of publications including Afterimage, Black Flash, image, and Reflex. Rod holds an MA in Literature and Writing from the University of Iowa and a MFA in Photography and Museum Studies from the Rochester Institute of Technology where he also trained as a graduate intern at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.
Refreshments will be served.