Artist Lecture 
William LeGoullon

Friday, 27 January, 7pm
Free

William LeGoullon moved to Arizona when he was only 4 years old. Growing up in the valley, he naturally became interested in Phoenix's arts scene. Actively supporting this community now for over 10 years, he often credits his devotion to and engagement with the Phoenix arts community as one of his driving inspirations.  In 2009, LeGoullon received his BFA from the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts at Arizona State University and is beginning to exhibit nationally. This past year he was awarded The Contemporary Forum of The Phoenix Art Museum's "Emerging Artist Grant" and exhibited in "The Arizona Biennial '11" at the Tucson Museum of Art.

A Conversation

The Sonoran Desert Re-Viewed

Christopher Colville, Richard Laugharn, Mike Lundgren

Thursday, 16 February, 7pm
Free

Christopher Colville

Christopher Colville was born in 1974 in Tucson Arizona. After receiving his BFA in Anthropology and Photography from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, he returned home to the Sonoran Desert and is currently living in Phoenix, where he is a visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.

Christopher's work has been included in both national and international publications and was most recently on view in a solo Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography.  Recent awards include the Humble Art Foundations 2009 New Photography Grant, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant, a Public Art Commission from the Phoenix Commission on the Arts as well as an artist fellowship through the American Scandinavian Foundation.

When not making work Christopher can be found spending time with his wonderful wife Melanie, while trying to keep up with their darling young sons Wyatt and Oliver.

Richard Laugharn

I moved to Arizona on Friday February 13th, 1987. The following day the State of Arizona celebrated its 75th anniversary. That was 25 years ago and I now find it difficult to imagine living anywhere else.

Ever since I was a boy in southern California, I have had a compulsion to honor, through repeated visits, particular landscapes. Though the clarity of the air, the frankness of the land and the promise of solitude are among the qualities that brought me to the desert, the ineffable sense of belonging, of feeling more myself here than elsewhere, is what binds me to this place.

After traversing the desert for years with my camera, I came upon the idea of photographing individual desert plants over time. By visiting certain plants regularly, I hope to bear witness to my subject's roots, and my own, in place and time. This project takes me to remote areas of southwest Arizona, northwest Sonora and southeastern California, in answer to some sort of longing, yes, but also with the idea of strengthening an attachment to the desert country that I, and many others, have come to regard as home.

Michael Lundgren

Born in Denver, Michael Lundgren spent his formative years in the hills of upstate New York, roaming the fields and woods behind his home. Lundgren received his BFA in photography from RIT in 1997 and his MFA in photography from ASU in 2003, where he has taught photography since 2004. His recent monograph, Transfigurations, is published by Radius Books. He is coauthor of After the Ruins: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake with the photographer Mark Klett. Lundgren is represented by ClampArt, in New York City. His work is included in the fine art collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark, the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, as well numerous private collections.