Join editor and curator Elizabeth Cheng Krist, artist Manjari Sharma, and ED/curator Hamidah Glasgow for an intimate conversation about the making and surfacing of art and the relationship between an editor/curator and an artist. 

The art world begins with art, and art comes from inspiration, curiosity, process, craft, and persistence. Surfacing the work to a public audience is the next step after making work. Our conversation will follow this thread. We will begin with inspiration and the making of work and then segue into some of the practical and relational pieces of an art practice and editorial or curatorial practice.

August 25th at 6 pm MT Via Zoom

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Manjari Sharma

Elizabeth Cheng Krist

Hamidah Glasgow

Manjari Sharma based in LA, was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and makes art that addresses the issues of memory, identity, multiculturalism, and personal mythology. After moving to New York City, she gained notoriety for her long-term project titled "The Shower Series." With this series, Manjari began creating work that was just as much about the materiality of water as it was about the inner landscape of the human mind. Expanding her art practice, Manjari has continued incorporating sound, motion, projection, and collage into her work. Manjari's project 'Darshan' (Published by Nazraeli press) is a photographic re-imagining of Hindu deities that garnered her wide critical acclaim. In 2017 the Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned Manjari to create a collaborative piece that received international praise and recognition. Manjari's work has been seen in The New York Times, Vice Magazine, CNN, LA Times, The Huffington Post, and NPR, to name a few. Works from her projects have been published, exhibited, and traveled to galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide. Manjari's work is in the permanent collection of The MET, MFA, Houston, Carlos Museum, and Birmingham Museum of Art, amongst various private collections.

Elizabeth Cheng Krist was a Senior Photo Editor with National Geographic magazine for over 20 years and is a founding member of the Visual Thinking Collective. She is on the boards of Women Photograph, and the W. Eugene Smith Fund helps program National Geographic's Storytellers Summit, and advises the Eddie Adams Workshop.

 Last year Elizabeth curated A Mother's Eye for Photoville and CatchLight. She has also curated a number of exhibitions for National Geographic, including Women of Vision, which traveled to 10 museums, plus an exhibition on China and an online auction for Christie's. Elizabeth edited the Women of Vision book and the book Pope Francis and the Vatican.

 She edits stories for Literary Hub and The 400 Years Project. She has also produced stories for Magnum Photos and for the travel quarterly Smithsonian Journeys. Earlier she worked at Fortune and at Asia.

In 2021 Elizabeth received the John Durniak Mentor Award from the National Press Photographers Association for serving as an outstanding mentor for photojournalists. Her other honors include awards from Pictures of the Year International, the Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts. Elizabeth has reviewed portfolios for the New York Portfolio Review (coordinated by The New York Times, Photoville, and CUNY), the Eddie Adams Workshop, SDN, PhotoPlus, and the Palm Springs Photo Festival. 

 Elizabeth has taught for the International Center of Photography, Leica, the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, CUNY, Santa Fe Workshops, The Kalish, Mountain Workshops, and La Luz. She has juried competitions for CatchLight, the Lit List, The FENCE, Pictures of the Year International, Getty/Instagram, the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation, Best of Photojournalism, the Ian Parry Scholarship, and the RFK Journalism Awards.

Hamidah Glasgow has been the Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, since 2009. She holds a master's degree in humanities specializing in visual and gender studies and a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Hamidah is a co-founder of the Strange Fire Collective. Strange Fire Collective is a group of interdisciplinary artists, curators, and writers focused on work that engages with current social and political forces. We seek to create a venue for work that critically questions the dominant social hierarchy and are dedicated to highlighting work made by women, people of color, and queer and trans artists. She is one of the founding board members of the Colorado Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.