Special Events

This Thursday at 12 o’clock noon PT, we are thrilled to host a "Virtual Brown Bag" with talks by Morgan Byrd and Taylor Kowgios, both graduate students in UArizona's Art History division. Byrd and Kowgios will present their final research projects for Dr. Jeehey Kim's graduate seminar "Vernacular Photographies," an expansive conversation about photography made for purposes other than fine art. This event is free and open to the public via Zoom here. 

12:00PT - Welcome

12:05 - 12:25 - Morgan Byrd, "Gris-Gris: How Voodoo Photographs Function as Representations of New Orleans"

12:25 - 12:45 - Taylor Kowgios, "Control of the Narrative: The Role of the Photographic Archive in Nazi Germany"

12:45 - 1PT - Q&A with Dr. Jeehey Kim, Morgan Byrd, and Taylor Kowgios 

About Morgan Byrd:

Morgan Byrd is an MA Candidate in Art History with a focus in the History of Photography at the University of Arizona. After receiving her BFA in Photography from Georgia State University in 2015, she worked for many organizations such as ART PAPERS Magazine, The Do Good Fund Photography Collection, the Atlanta Contemporary, and Marcia Wood Gallery. She has also curated several exhibitions including SPECTER, exploring the representation of death in art, at ArtLab Gallery at Columbus State University, and Creature of What You Are, the inaugural exhibition at Day & Nights Projects in Atlanta, GA. Most recently, she co-curated FEMME, an all-female exhibition in Tucson, AZ. 

About Taylor Kowgios:

Taylor Kowgios is an Art History Masters student at the University of Arizona and she is the recipient of the Graduate Assistantship in Art History and the Ellwood C. Parry III Endowed Award in Art History. Kowgios received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Lafayette College in English Literature and Art with a concentration in Photography and Art History. Graduating Summa Cum Laude, she fulfilled her undergraduate thesis in Art History while also completing an (unofficial) Studio Photography thesis. At Lafayette College, she was the recipient of the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship in Studio Art, the Dorian Scholarship in Art History, and the Charles A. Dana Foundation Scholarship for merit-based achievement. 

About Dr. Jeehey Kim:

Jeehey Kim's research encompasses the history of photography, visual culture, and film studies in East Asia. Kim is currently working on two book projects: Imagining Korea through Photography, on the history of photography in Korea, and Photography and Death: Funerary Photo-Portraiture in East Asia. She also has been writing articles on vernacular photographic practices as well as on documentary films and visual culture in relation to the Cold War and to gender politics in East Asia. 

As a curator, Kim has organized exhibitions such as the recent “Pyongyang Bookstore,” at Seoul Metropolitan Library, which presented North Korean artists of the 1950s and ’60s. Kim earned her doctorate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a dissertation on funerary portrait photography in East Asia. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

In the interest of the health and welfare of our patrons, staff, faculty, and students, the Center will be closed through the end of the year. This includes our galleries as well as our in-person programs, events, and research spaces. We believe this is a responsible and ethical step, and we look forward to coming together again as a community when the time is right. 

This decision was made in line with public health guidelines regarding COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus), as well as appropriate procedures determined by the University of Arizona. The University of Arizona has established a dedicated website that provides updates and resources, and we encourage you to refer to that site for ongoing information.

During the time when our physical doors are closed, we look forward to connecting with you virtually, through our website, social media, and our new app, CCP Interactive. Our staff is excited to offer you new and engaging content through these channels over the next months.

For information about other Arizona Arts closures, please visit their website.

We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you here at the CCP again soon.

Join us online from 1:00-4:00pm on Friday, March 27th, 2020 for a virtual kickoff of Tucson’s Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. This kickoff event marks the start of a month-long, community-wide effort towards editing Wikipedia pages concerning womxn and non-binary artists, makers, poets, photographers. Our collective goal is to improve coverage of womxn, non-binary and femme-identified people and the arts on Wikipedia and encourage diverse editorship. The kickoff event will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, lightning talks and collaborative group editing. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate, with a special welcome to womxn, non-binary, and femme people. This event is free and open to the general public as well as the University of Arizona community and runs from March 27th through April 30th, 2020.

Editors who register before or during the on-going event will have the opportunity to connect with other editors and get support throughout the month as well as attend an in-person keynote presentation and performance by local artist and activist, Natalie Brewster Nguyen. Food will be provided at the family-friendly celebratory event, to be scheduled at a later date.

This event is generously sponsored and co-hosted by CATalyst Studios, the Center for Creative Photography, the Poetry Center, the Department of History, the Public History Collaborative, and the Wikimedia Foundation, making it free and open to the general public as well as the University of Arizona community.

Register for free here. 

Tucson Festival of Books has been cancelled. 

Visit the Center for Creative Photography at Tucson Festival of Books! Chief Curator Rebecca Senf will give a talk on her new book, Making A Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams on March 15 at 2:30pm as part of the presentation National Parks Experience: A Picture of Preservation, with Frank Ruggles and Jon Waterman, and will sign books after the talk. 

The Center will have a booth throughout the weekend with copies of Making a Photographer for purchase. Rebecca Senf will sign books at the CCP booth on March 14 from 10am to noon and March 15 from 11am to noon.

Additionally, make your way down to University Ave and surrounding areas for a David Hume Kennerly outdoor pop-up exhibition co-presented by The Marshall Foundation and Main Gate Square. 

Marshall Foundation, established in 1930 by Louise Marshall, seeks to enhance the lives of the citizens of Tucson, AZ and Pima County through its support of charitable and educational institutions. The Foundation focuses its community giving on early childhood through undergraduate education and supportive wrap-around social services to aid underserved populations in attaining education. We also fund projects, programs and scholarships at the University of Arizona, including post-secondary levels.

Join us for an exclusive sneak peek of the new Heritage Gallery exhibition Ansel Adams: Signature Style before the Center hosts more than 1,000 guests during our Ansel Adams birthday weekend. Walk through the exhibition during the installation process with Chief Curator Becky Senf. 

RSVP to dillardd@ccp.arizona.edu.

This is a Director's Circle exclusive event. Find information about joining the Director's Circle here.

5:30pm Members-only Curatorial Tour of The Qualities of LIGHT

The Center for Creative Photography has built a research exhibition about the 1970s/1980s New York City photography gallery LIGHT, and raises questions about our contemporary connections to photography’s histories. On this curator-led exhibition tour for CCP members at 5:30pm, Drs. Rebecca Senf and Meg Jackson Fox dive deep into the themes and materials of the exhibition, the artists included and the discoveries made, and the transformation of the Heritage Gallery into the LIGHT Lab. Then stay for the film screening and print viewing that extends the sight line of the creative processes and critical histories found in the exhibition. Space is limited for this portion of the event - please RSVP to ccp-events@email.arizona.edu.

6:15pm - 7:30pm Public Film Screening and Print Viewing

At 6:15pm in the CCP Auditorium, you will not want to miss the first public screening of the new documentary by Lisa Immordino Vreeland that combines archival documents, contemporary interviews, and historic footage to explore the significance and impact of LIGHT Gallery. The screening will be followed by a print viewing of additional artists who showed with LIGHT, drawn from the CCP collection.

The curatorial tour is for members only, and the film screening and print viewing are free and open to the public.

For more information on the postponement of this lecture series, click here. 

Photography moves nimbly across the spectrum of lived experience. So much of how we identify—our physical appearance, social connections, surrounding environment, political affiliations, familial relationships—is communicated through a photograph. As it rapidly becomes astoundingly ubiquitous, photography attends to the popular need to see, to stabilize, and to make sense of our selves and one another. This need can power photographs to deliver radical, unexpected ways of being and thinking. Paradoxically, the same need can flatten the complexity of our stories and our selves. How do we avoid becoming lost in a sea of our own images?

The CCP’s Spring Lecture Series will bring together artists and scholars for an extended conversation on the way in which photography is entangled with the human self. How has photography shaped self-perception? Can visual representations be attentive to the flux and infiniteness of our shifting identities? How do photographs participate as a meaning-making enterprise, and do visibility, and hyper-visibility, reveal or conceal our self? What roles do self-portraits and selfies play in a global, contemporary society?

This multi-part series will run on the following dates:

• March 19 with Lev Manovich- POSTPONED
• March 26 with Sama Alshaibi and Deb Willis- POSTPONED
• April 9 with Sybil Venegas- POSTPONED
• April 17 with Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie- POSTPONED

CCP's annual birthday celebration for Ansel Adams is back! Beat the crowds and join us for a special VIP reception to celebrate Ansel Adams and the release of Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adamsby CCP Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf. Senf will discuss the book and new exhibition, Ansel Adams: Signature Style, followed by a book signing. This event also includes exclusive access to objects from the Ansel Adams archive and a special one night only print viewing of Adams' photographs. Plus birthday inspired treats! 

This event is $30 for CCP members and $40 for the general public. Online registration is now closed. 

Schedule
5:30-6:00pm: Doors open at 5:30pm - mix and mingle
6:00pm: Dr. Rebecca Senf will discuss the release of Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams
7:00-8:30pm: Reception, exhibition opening, book signing, print viewing, archival and conservation objects on view

Not a member yet? Click here to learn more and join today!

if you are interested in attending, but can't make it to this event, click here to learn more about our public Ansel Adams Birthday Celebration.

Special thanks to this year's event sponsors: 

Western National Parks Association
Western Photographic Historical Society

CCP's annual birthday celebration for Ansel Adams is back! Join us to celebrate the release of Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams by CCP Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf. To kick off the celebration, Senf will discuss the book and new exhibition, Ansel Adams: Signature Style, followed by a book signing.

The event schedule is as follows:

12:00 to 1:00pm

Book talk with Becky Senf in Crowder Hall (across Olive Rd from the front of the CCP- a very short walk)

12:00 to 4:00pm

Ansel Adams: Signature Style in the Heritage Gallery
The Qualities of LIGHT in the Main Gallery
Vintage camera tables with Western Photographic Historical Society at the CCP
Photo Booth on the front porch
Sun Print-Making on the front porch

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Book signing with Becky Senf in the CCP Auditorium

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Cake and snacks in the CCP Lobby
Bolo Tie-Making in the CCP Board Room (Upstairs)
Archival Object Viewing in the CCP Board Room (Upstairs)

1:30pm and 3:00pm

Family Photo Walks with Parks in Focus

Join staff and volunteers from Parks in Focus—a program of the Udall Foundation and Western National Parks Association that has been connecting Tucson youth to nature through photography since 1999—for a fun, family-friendly guided photography walk around the University of Arizona campus. Bring your phone or digital point-and-shoot camera (or borrow one from them) and learn simple tips and tricks to take your nature photography to the next level. This program is geared toward youth, families, and beginning nature photographers and will require walking approximately 1 mile around campus. Youth participants must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Interested in beating the crowds and getting a closer look at the Adams Archive? Click here to learn about our VIP Preview Experience taking place on Friday, February 28.

Rebecca Senf Discusses Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams:

Ansel Adams first arrived in California’s Yosemite Valley as a shy, home-schooled fourteen-year-old boy in 1916. How did this young tourist, with a Box Brownie camera in hand, become an accomplished mountaineer and one of the most recognizable photographers of the twentieth century? In this intimate first look at her new book, Making A Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, the chief curator of the Center for Creative Photography, Rebecca Senf, charts Adams’s progression from novice to mature artist. This debut event for Making a Photographer will include a short reading, followed by a behind-the-scenes exploration of how Senf leveraged primary source materials to build a new narrative about the photographer. Her talk illustrates unknown pictures by Adams, rare archival objects, and some of his most iconic photographs. Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams will deepen your understanding of one of photography’s central figures, enriching your appreciation of his formative years.

Special thanks to this year's event sponsors:

Western National Parks Association
Western Photographic Historical Society

Join the Center for our annual Members-only New York experience from March 31 - April 5, 2020. For the first time ever the Photography Show will be hosted by Paris Photo and will take place April 2-5, 2020. The new fair will create a transatlantic hub between the two historic centers for photography – Paris and New York thus forming a collective voice and international reference for the photographic medium. For those who have never attended the Photography Show, this is a fantastic way to experience it for the first time. Return attendees will have the opportunity to access new and exciting elements of the fair. 

The trip will include the following:

• VIP pass for the Photography Show which includes access to the Photography Show Preview
• A private tour of the fair led by Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf
• Exclusive access to events, studio visits, talks, and gallery and museum tours around New York City with CCP Director Anne Breckenridge Barrett and Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf
• A members’ welcome dinner and 4 additional meals during your stay
• City Travel: Cab, LYFT and Subway fare

Attendees will be responsible for their own airfare, accommodations, and some meals.

REGISTRATION

Individual: $975 ($150 is tax deductible)
Pair: $1850 ($200 is tax deductible)

Please call Brit Palomarez at 520-621-0407 or email at palomarezb@ccp.arizona.edu to register. Registration will close March 1, 2020. If we do not have the required 10 members committed to travelling by this date, the Center will cancel the trip and refund your full contribution. We encourage you to continue with planning as normal as more than enough people have expressed verbal interest.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Center staff will be staying at the Kimpton Ink48 Hotel, and strongly encourage attendees to take advantage of the special rate of $199 a night (taxes and fees not included) reserved for the Center. You can book a room by calling (212) 757-0088 and mentioning you are with the Center for Creative Photography.

*The official trip dates are March 31 - April 5. We suggest reserving the days before and after these dates for air travel and special arrangements.