This time is dedicated to the questions and conversation that are often overlooked in traditional artist talks and academic curriculum. Students are invited to join visiting artist Tommy Kha in an informal conversation about life as an artist—dialogue about maintaining creative stamina, professional problem solving, and building community are welcome.
 
Snacks will be provided and we encourage you to stay for Kha’s 1-4 p.m. Self-Imaging Workshop in the ABW atrium.
 
More about Visting Artist Tommy Kha…
From Kha’s website: “Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, TN) is a photographer currently working between Brooklyn, New York and Memphis, Tennessee. He is a recipient of the Next Step Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo’ Fund, and most recently named an NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University. He is not garbage.” It is worth adding that Kha’s work has been exhibited extensively including at SFMoMA, the High Museum, and a solo show at Baxter Street NY. His monograph “Half, Full, Quarter” was published by Aperture in 2023. 
 
Kha is a dynamic speaker and artist whose ongoing photography practice incorporates aspects of performance, and community engagement in particular The Chain Letter Project, “an attempt to catalog an AAPI collective memory.”  (Note: AAPI stands for Asian American and Pacific Islander)
 
Drawing from his personal experience as a queer Asian American living in the American South, “Kha examines how we construct belonging and otherness through photography, inventing new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure.” (Art21)  
 
Image credit: from I’m Only Here to Leave by Tommy Kha