Executive Director Laura Wzorek Pressley in conversation with Rubén Esparza, Independent Curator, Artists, Founder + Director, Queer Biennial discussing the genesis of the Queer Biennial, experimentation, and his impressions of the submissions and winners of the 2020 CENTER Director’s Choice Awards Rubén Esparza is based in Los Angeles. Esparza's studio practice spans painting, drawings, and digital work, mixing it with elements of Conceptualism, ethnicity, and Queer Culture. His curatorial work focuses on under-represented artists primarily in the queer and ethnic communities.

This program is hosted by Laura Wzorek Pressley and produced by Matthew Contos. Whitney Wernick provides marketing and administrative support. Music provided by Will Flato, Sunnycyde (@sunnycyde), featuring a clip from “After All.”

Thank you to The National Endowment for the Humanities, and all our donors who make our work possible, and thank you for listening.

Queering The Biennial

In Today’s Episode, “Conversations in Time” we speak with Ann Thomas, Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada. Our host is joined by Thomas to discuss her essay: From Conversations in Time to New Narratives: Building Photographs Collections for the Future We will discuss some of the major mile-stones of 21st-century photography and explore the curatorial challenges of presenting lens-based media projects in the past 20 years.

Thanks for tuning in, come back for our next episode with Ruben Esparza, artist, curator, and founder of the Queer Biennial. 

The podcast program is hosted by Laura Wzorek Pressley and produced by Matthew Contos. Marketing and administrative support is provided by Whitney Wernick. Music provided by Will Flato, Sunnycyde (https://soundcloud.com/sunnycyde), featuring a clip from “After All.”

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More information, podcasts, and interviews can be found online at  www.photography2020.org

Conversations In Time

Join our host Laura Wzorek Pressley and Nicole Werbeck, Senior Supervising Editor of Visuals and Engagement at NPR, as they discuss how visual journalism comes to life and how non-profit organizations serve image-makers in 2020. Werbeck shares what motivates her when selecting images and provides details on how to submit your photography to her department at NPR.

This program is hosted by Laura Wzorek Pressley and produced by Matthew Contos. Whitney Wernick provides marketing and administrative support. Music provided by Will Flato, Sunnycyde (@sunnycyde), featuring a clip from “After All.”

Thank you to The National Endowment for the Humanities, and all our donors who make our work possible, and thank you for listening.

Behind The Visuals Of NPR

Tune-in and connect with diverse voices working with lens-based media. Hosted by CENTER Executive Director, Laura Wzorek Pressley, the podcasts series provides insights on contemporary image-makers and industry leaders with interviews, panel discussions & conversations 

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