Events
ART ON A FRIDAY: Women Photographers in Wichita
June 14, 2024 | 5:30pm
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ / WORK, Featured Event, Exhibitions, WAM Nights, Friends of the Wichita Art Museum
Cost:
Happy Hour: $25 general public/$20 WAM members | Panel Discussion: FREE, open to the public
Location:
Wichita Art Museum
Organizer:
Friends of the Wichita Art Museum
Art on a Monday is now Art on a Friday! Inspired by the summer featured exhibition ANNIE LEIBOVITZ / WORK, a panel of local female photographers will discuss their different approaches to this art form during a conversation moderated by Jennifer Ray, Associate Professor of Photo Media at Wichita State University.
5:30 pm – New! Art on a Friday Happy Hour
Includes mingling with the panelists, tasty hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, and seating in the “Reserved Section” of the Great Hall.
$25 general public/$20 WAM members
Reservations required, click button below to reserve your spot!
FREE, open to the public, no reservations required.
Panelists include Kendra Cremin, Kelsy Gossett Dennis, and Amanda Pfister.
Event Sponsored by The Friends of the Wichita Art Museum
The Panelists
Jennifer Ray received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and BA in Studio Art from Oberlin College. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Ulrich Museum of Art, the Museo del Barro, the Fundación Bienal Asunción, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. It was selected for the 1st Asunción Biennial (Paraguay) and Bienal de Curitiba (Brazil) and has been exhibited at the RISD Museum of Art, the Chelsea Art Museum, Gallery 44, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Hyde Park Art Center, and Chicago Cultural Center, among other venues. She’s been awarded residencies at Latitude Chicago, ACRE, and Unpack (Havana/Toronto). Her work is included in the Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography, published by Humble Arts Foundation. She’s received research grants from the Illinois Arts Council, Columbia College, the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, Oberlin College, and Wichita State University. Her long-term project, Shouting Fire, will be published by Push/Pull Editions in 2024. She is currently Associate Professor of Photo Media at Wichita State University and Associate Director of the School of Art, Design & Creative Industries.
Kendra Cremin a Freelance Photographer, Artist and Instructor out of Wichita, KS. She loves being part of a story. If you aren’t in a hurry, ask her about her photography work with the International Rescue Committee, The Shout or The City of Wichita, to name a few. Addicted to photography and caffeine, she jumps at the chance to access unique locations where one moment can be a whole story within itself. All photography work is good work to her and she has likely taken your picture at an event or you’ve seen her work published locally. Currently she is working on her own art show concentrations while teaching as an Adjunct Instructor at Wichita State University
as well as continuing her freelance schedule.
Kelsy Gossett Dennis is an artist and educator. Her work has been featured worldwide including venues in Germany, Romania, Belgium, Hungary and extensively across the United States in galleries and museums such as Center for Fine Art Photography, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Her short films have been showcased in film festivals including the Seattle Queer Film Festival, Defy Film Festival, Los Angeles CineFest, and Femmes’ Video Art Festival. She received her MFA from Wichita State University and is currently the Assistant Professor of Photography & Art at McPherson College.
Amanda Pfister Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and living in various places throughout the Midwest and currently residing in Wichita, Amanda Pfister earned her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Kansas and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is a visual artist using photography to explore ideas of identity, feminism, place, community social engagement, and collaboration. In October of 2022, she organized the community event DADA Ball bringing together art, music, avant-garde fashion, and drag performances for a one-night event as part of her social practice. She curated GAZE: Power & Politics through a feminist view, an exhibition of women’s art, for Mark Arts in April 2023. Amanda founded ICT Soup, a grassroots effort for crowdfunding creative projects through community meals from 2016-2022. She was a Community Fellow with Harvester Arts and a Concept Focus artist with the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.
