Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking evening at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts! On April 4, 2025, at 5 PM, the Turchin Center Lecture Hall will host the highly anticipated AMPC Panel Discussion.
This event brings together a distinguished panel of experts to delve into the creative process, explore contemporary artistic practices, and share insights into their collaborative projects. Whether you’re an artist, art enthusiast, or curious about the intersection of innovation and tradition in the art world, this discussion promises to inspire and inform.
Mark your calendar and be part of this unique opportunity to engage with thought leaders in a dynamic conversation about the transformative power of art. Admission is free, and all are welcome.
We look forward to seeing you there!
About the Panelists
Marcus Morris is a multidisciplinary artist and imagemaker whose work centers queerness, Blackness and performance. He was an MFA Fellow in Photography from The Ohio State University(2024) and received his BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design (2012). In addition, he spent six months studying Art and Photography at The Michaelis School of Fine Art at The University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. Marcus is a founder of Cineseries, an experimental film program series at The Wexner Center for the Arts, and is co-curator of the 2024 Fotofocus Biennale at Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design. He was the Fall 2024 Artist Fellow at the Annex at The Gund at Kenyon College. Marcus is a lecturer at The Ohio State University.
Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer and interdisciplinary artist. Her photography and public installations focus on the Appalachian and Southern landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into questions of place and belonging. Since 2016, her work has primarily explored the nature of visual perception and its impact on our feelings of connection and kinship with the natural world. Here, she engages in intimate gestural conversations with the land through the use of handbuilt cameras designed in response to place. She lives in Marshall, NC, where she is the director of Makers Circle and a co-founder of the Kinship Photography Collective.Â
Frances Bukovsky (they/them) is a photographer who is interested in the relationships between bodies, places, and identities, particularly within the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. Bukovsky was born in upstate New York and earned a BFA with honors from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. Since then, their work has been featured in institutions such as UC Irvine’s College of Health Sciences, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, UGA’s Circle Gallery, and the United Nations HQ in New York City. Bukovsky is a co-founder of Kinship Photography Collective as well as a member of Women Photograph. They reside in Marshall, North Carolina.Â
