Art work by Eleanor Scholz

MORNING SESSIONS (10 am – 12:15 pm)
Linda Connor, Artist, Educator (SFAI)
Clarence Edwards, Legislative Director for Sustainable Energy and Environment, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Robert Dawson, Artist, Educator
Ellen Manchester, Photography Curator, Project Director
Jamil Hellu, 2014 Recology Artist in Residence
Kari Orvik, 2018 Recology Artist in Residence
Minoosh Zomorodinia, 2021 Recology Artist in Residence
Beth Moon, Artist
Lisa K. Blatt, Artist

AFTERNOON SESSIONS (1:30 – 4 pm)
Michael Naify, Photographer
Eric Zhang, Photographer, Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Cheryl Haines, Founding Executive Director, FOR-SITE Foundation
Gayle Laird, Lead Photographer at California Academy of Sciences
Susan Schwartzenberg, Artist, Director, Bay Observatory, Exploratorium

Internationally renowned photographer Linda Connor studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1969. She is the recipient of numerous awards including National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and many other notable institutions. She has authored several monographs including Visits, Solos, Luminance, Spiral Journey, Odyssey and Constellations.

Clarence Edwards serves as the Legislative Director for Sustainable Energy and Environment at the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington D.C. In this role he focuses on advancing policies that will lead to a sustainable low carbon society in the United States.

In addition to his work advancing climate and environmental justice policies, Clarence has extensive experience in the U.S. domestic and international public policy arenas. As an advisor to the Government of Australia, he helped officials from that country to gain insights into U.S. policy and political developments and their potential impact on Australia’s strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific region. As a global health advocate representing the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the ONE Campaign, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he successfully advocated for U.S. government funding to address neglected tropical diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Clarence’s experience also includes working on legislative affairs for the Department of Energy and on public diplomacy for the Department of State. He began his career by working as a Staff Assistant in the U.S. Senate.

Clarence holds a Master’s in international public policy from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and studied economic development at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Robert Dawson is an American photographer and was an instructor of photography at San Jose State University and Stanford University. Dawson was recently awarded the 2018-2019 Fulbright Global Scholar award by the U.S. Department of State. Dawson's photographs have also been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, an Artists Grant from the Graham Foundation and the Creative Work Fund, a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment For the Arts, a Ruttenberg Fellowship from The Friends of Photography, a Photographer's Work Grant from the Maine Photographic Workshops, a James D. Phelan Award through the San Francisco Foundation, and a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University. He earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MA from San Francisco State University. His work has been exhibited or held in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Library of Congress.