Tuesday, June 30, 2020
7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex

Available now on Youtube

Join artist Adam Normandin in an exploration of his work, influences, and studio.

Normandin is a contemporary realist painter living and working in Los Angeles. His paintings depict undoctored freight train cars as they appear in yards, often covered in graffiti or resting in desolate settings. Through his work, Normandin looks to examine the notion of space, purpose, and the passing of time, and the exploration of interconnectedness and transience of humanity.

Due to the ongoing concerns and challenges surrounding the global health situation, we are rescheduling Conversations Northeast at the University of Connecticut from September 19, 2020, to a Saturday to be determined in Fall 2021.

We are now planning to offer an online conference on Saturday, September 19. Registrations will open on June 29. Stay tuned for details.

We hope to “see” you virtually on September 19, and in-person next fall in Storrs, Connecticut.

We hosted an archives and preservation Q&A with Adrienne Evans, our archivist, on Tuesday evening, May 19. Adrienne fielded dozens of questions about our collections and best practices for the archiving and preservation of analog as well as digital photographs. More than 130 people tuned in live, and you can watch a recording of the session on our YouTube channel.

Adrienne also prepared a list of resources that you can download here. We are already planning another online presentation about archives and perseveration as well as additional online programming throughout the summer. Stay tuned for details!

Tuesday, May 19, 2020
7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central)
Hosted by Adrienne Evans, CRP&A Archivist on Cisco Webex

Registration is closed.

CRP&A Archivist Adrienne Evans will answer your questions! Curious about the basics of photography archiving and preservation? Submit your questions to Adrienne to expand your knowledge and to learn more about becoming a better caretaker for your photographic materials.

Submit your archive-related questions to info@railphoto-art.org by end of day on Monday, May 11 to have them considered. Adrienne will answer as many questions as she can within the 60-minute time slot. Any additional time will be opened to questions in the Q&A feature on Cisco Webex.

Deadline for registration: Friday, May 15

Prior to the event date please register for a Cisco Webex Account. It is free to sign up.

We will send out a link for the meeting on Monday, May 18 by email. Please click on the link and sign into your Webex account on Tuesday, May 19 at 7:00 P.M. (U.S. Central) to access the Q&A session.

For additional questions relating to the event contact:

E. info@railphoto-art.org
P.608-251-5785 ext. 104 (archive questions)
608-251-5785 ext. 103 (registration / Webex questions)

Our next presentation for Virtual Conversations premieres on YouTube at 8pm Central Time on Friday, April 17. “Beautiful Fragility: Railroad Cinematography in the Pacific Northwest,” is an interview with filmmaker Camron Settlemier of Marcam Productions about his quarter-century quest to record the dying branch lines and short line railroads of the Pacific Northwest.

While still in college, Camron got his first video camera to capture the last summer of the Southern Pacific In Oregon. For the next thirteen years he put all available time, money and resources to pursue his interest in railroad videography, capturing some of the most vulnerable and interesting short lines and branch lines in the Pacific Northwest. They include the Camas Prairie, Saint Maries River, and Port of Tillamook, all which are now out of service. Camron is also known for professional Steam Videos, first working with Goodheart Productions, and later forming his own video company, Marcam Productions. In 2007 Marcam Productions was the first to release a steam railfan video in the US on High Definition Blu-ray, the “Legends of Steam” series. Today Camron subsists in his hometown of Albany, Oregon, and dreams of inventing a time machine to go back to a period of time worth videoing.

Learn more about Virtual Conversations, the Center’s first-ever online conference.