Medium Festival Artist Talks
Weegee: Two Truths and a Lie
saturday, April 1, 7:00 - 8:00pm, San Diego City College, Room V-101
Weegee’s camera captured the random misfortunes and diversions of a modern metropolis. This lecture examines Weegee’s remarkable photography in detail, explores the urban milieu in which he worked, and includes related images that lend context to Weegee’s world.
Publishing Artist Books: A Practical Overview from A to Z
sunday, April 2, 9:00 - 10:30am, Bread & salt
Douglas Stockdale leads a panel discussion on different formats for publishing with artists Sarah Hadley, Jodie Hulden, Lorena Mostajo and Bil Zelman.
Interconnectedness and Nature
Sunday, april 2, 11:00am - 12:00pm pacific (online)
Asli Narin talks about her pandemic work, inspired by nature walks and her bodily disconnectedness from family and friends. These efforts led to her ongoing project, "Hand In Hand," which is fictitious work about her ancestral history and the cycle of immigration in her family.
Funding Book Publishing for Artists
Sunday, april 2, 1:30 - 3:00pm, bread & salt
Douglas Stockdale leads a panel discussion on how to finance your publishing project, with artists scott b. davis, Jay Reimer, Dotan Saguy and Hiroshi Watanabe.
Will Gibson: The Evolution of a Photographer
Wednesday, April 5, 7:00pm, San Diego City College room V-101
Will Gibson will describe the evolution of his photographic journey starting as an Ansel Adams 'clone', learning on the job in his commercial studio, and transitioning to teaching and taking his photography on the road.
Second Sight Lecture: Anh-Thuy Nguyen
Thursday, April 6, 7:00pm, Museum of Contemporary Art (La Jolla)
Anh-Thuy Nguyen is the 2023 Second Sight Award recipient, selected from participating reviewers in the 2022 Medium Review. Her talk describes the artist’s work, evolution, and process working in still photography, video, and installation.
David Freese: Tales of the Landscape and Dire Warnings
Friday, April 7 at 2pm Pacific (online)
An artist’s talk looking at the intersection of technological, scientific, and environmental timelines and connect a very brief history of landscape photography with humankind’s observations of adverse effects on the environment.
Keynote Conversation with Judith Joy Ross and Joshua Chuang
Friday, April 7 at 6:30pm, Museum of Contemporary Art (La Jolla), reception begins at 5:30pm
Judith Joy Ross will co-present the 2023 Medium Festival of Photography Keynote Lecture with curator Joshua Chuang. With a distinguished and celebrated career of more than fifty years as one of the most esteemed portrait photographers working in the world today.
Film Screening and talk: Debi Cornwall and Michael Trigilio discuss Pineland/Hollywood
Saturday, April 8 at 11am, Museum of Contemporary Art (La Jolla)
Using fair-use clips from almost 200 Hollywood films, Pineland/Hollywood challenges viewers to reassess how we consume fictionalized stories of real state violence.
Artist Talk and Exhibition by Annie Claflin
Wednesday, April 12th from 6-7pm, Grossmont Healthcare District’s Health & Wellness Library, La Mesa
The Grossmont Healthcare District’s Health & Wellness Library will host an artist talk featuring Annie Claflin discussing the work and answering questions about her creative practice and the intersection of her art with her wellness.
In Search Of Thoreau's Flowers
Thursday, April 13 at 4:00pm, San Diego City College room V-101
This artist talk by Leah Sobsey examines the exhibition In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, now on view at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers is an immersive installation that uses projected animations, data visualization, cyanotypes, soundscapes, and augmented spatial reality to offer an artistic interpretation of writer Henry David Thoreau’s preserved plant specimens as viewed through the lens of climate change.
Chip Thomas: A Life of Activism on the Navajo Nation
Thursday, April 13 at 7:00pm Pacific (online)
In this online artist talk, Chip Thomas, aka “jetsonorama” discusses his work as a photographer, public artist and activist who has been working between Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon on the Navajo nation since 1987. Drawn to street art, graffiti and old school hip-hop, he was attracted to the energy of the culture in the 80s before coming to the Navajo Nation, where he participated in a major billboard “correction” on the reservation shortly after his arrival.
Northern Exposure Artist Panel Discussion
Friday, April 14 at 11:00am (UABC Campus, Tijuana)
Ingrid Hernández shares a conversation with 2022 & 2023 Northern Exposure Scholarship recipients, examining their work and the process of receiving advice and feedback on a photographic project during a formal portfolio review.
Weaving a story of generations through art while raising awareness around mental health
Friday, April 14 at 7:00pm Pacific (online)
Indian-Canadian artist Twinkle Banerjee describes her experience of generational trauma and how it can look like from a personal standpoint. Understanding the pressure put on BIPOC artists for creating trauma-related work, she also tries balancing her work with introspective experiments with a focus on poetic imagery.
X Marks the Spot
Saturday, April 15 at 4:00pm, San Diego City College room V-101
A brief introduction to the history of Burlesque and my path documenting and performing within the community. This work and it's title reference the sweet spot that burlesque holds in the aritst’s life artistically-allowing them to play, perform and document all at once.