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POSTPONED – In Conversation: Steven Evans, Max Fields, and Amy Sadao

Silver Street Studios, East Gallery
2000 Edwards St. Houston, TX 77007

FotoFest invites you to join the co-curators of the upcoming Biennial 2022 exhibition, If I Had a Hammer (on view 9/24–10/6/22), for a discussion focused on the thematic ideas and issues explored in the Biennial 2022 program.

The speakers will use FotoFest’s current film program, I’d hammer out danger, I’d hammer out a warning (on view through 4/30) as the catalyst for their conversation, describing how the featured films informed their conversations on the ways the circulation of mediated spectacles and images both inform and reflect social movements, political ideologies, and cultural imaginaries.

This event will be held in-person at Silver Street Studios in East Gallery and online via Zoom and YouTube Live. Registration is required to attend the in-person program; seating is limited. Seats will be held for registered guests until 10:55AM, after which we will accept walk-ins. To watch on Zoom or YouTube Live, follow the link below or visit the FotoFest YouTube Channel at the program’s start time.

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About the guests

Amy Sadao received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1995 and an MA in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. She was Executive Director of Visual AIDS for the Arts from 2002-2012 and served as the Daniel W. Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia from 2012-2019. Amy is living in Philadelphia and is currently the Program Director for Denniston Hill and has upcoming exhibitions at Columbia University in New York City and RedCat in Los Angeles.

Max Fields is the Associate Curator and Director of Publishing at FotoFest. He has presented numerous exhibitions and has written for and overseen the production of multiple museum and gallery publications. Recent projects include Public Life (2020–21), African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (with Mark Sealy, 2020), and Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil at the Blaffer Art Museum (2019-20). His recent exhibition, In Place of an Index, is produced and presented with the 2021 Texas Biennial and was co-curated with Ryan Dennis and Evan Garza.

Steven Evans is a curator, writer, artist and the Executive Director and curator of the award-winning arts organization FotoFest, based in Houston, Texas. He is responsible for exhibitions and the artistic direction of FotoFest and its Biennial. Among many exhibitions organized for FotoFest and other venues, Evans produced and oversaw the development of the FotoFest’s Biennial central exhibitions for African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (2020), India: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art (2018), and Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet (2016). He co-edited the related hardcover books African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (2020), INDIA (2018), and Changing Circumstances (2016), as well as recent FotoFest publication Velvet Generation (2019). Prior to FotoFest, Evans worked with a wide range of artists and collaborators as managing director of the Dia:Beacon Museum in New York State and as director of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. His curatorial work incorporates a range of approaches with a focus on photography, moving image, and new media art.

Image: Left: Amy Sadao. Photo: Vincent Dixon. Middle: Steven Evans. Photo: Ryan Hawk. Right: Max Fields. Photo: Hannah Crement.