2025 Panelists
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| Name |
Genre |
Year | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chrissie Iles | Film/Video | 2008 |
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY |
| Renée Tajima-Peña | Film/Video | 2007 |
filmmaker, associate professor, UC Santa Cruz
Los Angeles, CA |
| Pablo de Ocampo | Film/Video | 2024 |
Director and Curator of Moving Image, Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN |
| J. Hoberman | Film/Video | 1997 |
film critic
New York, NY |
| Rizvana Bradley | Film/Video | 2020 |
assistant professor, History of Art, and African-American Studies, Yale University
New Haven, CT |
| Ella Taylor | Film/Video | 1996 |
film critic
Los Angeles, CA |
| Dean Otto | Film/Video | 2008 |
assistant curator, Film/Video, Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN |
| Dessane Lopez Cassell | Film/Video | 2023 |
writer and curator; Editor-in-Chief, Seen journal (BlackStar Projects)
Brooklyn, NY |
| Kristy Edmunds | Film/Video | 1999 |
artist and director/curator, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR |
| Michelle Coffey | Film/Video | 2011 |
executive director, Lambent Foundation
New York, NY |
| Arthur Jafa | Film/Video | 2024 |
artist, filmmaker, theorist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Los Angeles, CA |
| Leslie Thornton | Film/Video | 2024 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Croton-on-Hudson, NY |
| Mary Lucier | Film/Video | 1997 |
video artist
New York, NY |
| Bruce Jenkins | Film/Video | 2020 |
professor of Film, Video, New Media and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Romi Crawford | Film/Video | 2012 |
Professor, curator, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Romi Crawford | Film/Video | 2022 |
art historian, professor of Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Cheryl Dunye | Film/Video | 2000 |
filmmaker and educator
Pasadena, CA |
| Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado | Film/Video | 2013 |
Independent Film Person; Executive Director of International Film Seminars; Organizers of the Flaherty Film Seminar
Houston, TX |
| Bill Morrison | Film/Video | 2023 |
filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY |
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