Beverages at our lecture are sponsored by:
Fort Point Beer Company and Winery Sixteen 600

All photos © Lukas Felzmann

Lukas Felzmann was born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland, has been living and working in San Francisco since 1981. His work uses photographic means to explore the intersections of the natural and the cultural, and often contains sculptural elements. His current work Waters in Between explores humans’ relationship to the landscape, and how we internalize and attempt to control nature. Previously published bodies of work include Swarm (Lars Müller Publishers, 2011), an investigation and celebration of flight, musing on the working of natural systems, and how there might be control without hierarchy, and Gull Juju (Lars Müller Publishers, 2015), where the degradation of the marine environment through plastic and other materials is examined. In 2018, Apophenia, a large monograph was published by Koenig Books, London. Lukas Felzmann taught photography at the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University for 25 years, and is currently an Affiliated Scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. In 2018 Lukas Felzmann was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in photography and in 2024 two books, Across and Ground, were published by Lars Müller Publishers on his work.

All photos © Yulia Pinkusevich

Yulia Pinkusevich is an artist and educator born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern block as refugees, immigrating to New York City. She later relocated to California to attend college and graduate school, continuing to reside in the San Francisco Bay Area to this day. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Yulia works primarily in drawing, painting and installation. She creates projects and large-scale environments that consider our ecological and social systems. Her work observes land and environment critically, focusing on the psychology of space while exploring visible and psychological environments sentient beings inhabit. Using art as a vehicle to merge the physical and psychological parallels, she explores the sentiments of our non-human kin and the life force of elemental beings like fire and water. Her work is a search for innate inner truths.


Her background itself is rooted in change. Born and raised in the USSR at a time of great political upheaval and uncertainty, her work stems from her identity as an immigrant of Siberian & Ukrainian roots. Her art explores dualities and the complex relationships between her blended identity and home countries. Formally, the work is engaged with the direct experience of the viewer through perspectival illusion and spatial perception that play with the subconscious and cognitive understanding of space. By breaking logical perspectives, she creates illusions of impossible spaces, non-places or utopias that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic.

Winery Sixteen 600 is a vineyard-focused winery founded in 2007 by Phil Coturri, along with his wife Arden Kremer and sons, Max and Sam.

The winery produces small-batch, single-vineyard wines exclusively from certified organic vineyards farmed by Phil and his vineyard management company, Enterprise Vineyards. Their portfolio includes wines they love to drink and collect—Grenache, Rhône varietals, field blends, as well as Cabernet and Zinfandel, honoring Sonoma’s rich heritage.

Sixteen 600’s success is built on the dedication of its exceptional team, particularly the vineyard crew, winery staff, and the passionate individuals who work alongside Sam in the office and tasting house.

Fort Point was inspired by a love for San Francisco and a desire to make craft beer more accessible. Over the years, it has grown to become one of the city’s best-known independent producers, creating a wide range of new beers and even a line of ciders along the way. No matter the favorite Fort Point brew, one thing remains true — every can hits that sweet spot between interesting and easy to love.