SE Center Artist Talks
© Eli Craaven
Eli Craven
Thursday, November 20
7 PM Eastern, via Zoom
Eli Craven (b. 1979) is an American artist currently based in Lafayette, Indiana. Craven’s research resides in the critical investigation of the image and its relationship to ideologies of sexuality, desire, and death. His work is exhibited nationally and internationally and has also been widely published.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM FORMAT
This program will take place on Zoom. Those who register to attend will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the talk through a computer or mobile device.
We recommend participants download the Zoom app on their device prior to the program. Learn how to download the latest version of Zoom to your computer or mobile device.
Please note: we strive to record all sessions to make a recording available after the program, but technical issues do happen. Recordings are not guaranteed for each session. We recommend participants tune in live if there is a session they don’t want to miss.
Our Artist Talks and Booktalks are free to all, all the time.
Upcoming guests
© Olivia Parker
Olivia Parker
Thursday, January 15, 2026
7 PM Eastern, via Zoom
“Still lifes juxtapose objects to depict the comfort found in a table with food or a vase of flowers or to show the despair of the vanitas or momento mori. These images retain the formal shell of the genre, but have elements of the unexpected. Still life has sometimes been dismissed as insignificant, yet still lifes remain. I think that their persistence has to do with their proximity to the most basic concerns of human life: food, shelter, sex (with its associations of life and growth), and death. Still lifes permit endless expressive experimentation within a form that remains close to universal human experience.” - Olivia Parker
© Lori Pond
Lori Pond
Thursday, February 19, 2026
7 PM Eastern, via Zoom
“In my work, I explore the interplay between science and art by using ferrofluids, food coloring, and magnets to create abstract photography that embodies the tension between order and chaos. Ferrofluids, magnetic liquids that respond to magnetic fields, provide a dynamic and ever-changing medium that allows me to capture fleeting moments of transformation.”
Past Artist Talks: Joni Sternbach, Oct 2025 Janine Michna Bales, March 2025, Cara Barer, January 2025, Meet the Instructors: Laurie Klein and Kate Jordahl, December 2024, Landry Major, November 2024, Fran Forman, May 2024, Jim McKinniss, March 2024, Tami Bahat, January 2024, Jennifer Thoersen, November 2023, Lynn Bianchi, May 2023, Sarah Hadley, April 2023, Zoe Zimmerman, March 2023, Bootsy Holler, January 2023, Gary Beeber, March 2022, Emily Battaglini, February 2022, Jennifer McClure, January 2022, Douglas Beasley, November 2021, Aline Smithson, October 2021, Jason Langer, September 2021, Doug Dubois, October 2021, Meg Griffiths, July 2021, Jane Fulton Alt, June 2021, Bruce Barnbaum, May 2021, Holly Anders, April 2021, Mitch Dobrowner, March 2021, Lori Nix + Kathleen Gerber, Feb 2021
View the videos of past Artist Talks on our YouTube channel below
Join us the third Saturday each month for BookTalk when we will showcase the latest photo books and their creators, talk with publishers, and photo-book collectors.
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Hannah Altman will discuss her project, We Will Return to You
Drawing from a breadth of Yiddish literature and Jewish texts, We Will Return to You considers how storytelling is translated and transformed through photographs by evoking the enigmatic, ritualistic, and multi-layered world of folklore.
Our next BookTalk, November 15 at 2:00 PM, Eastern via Zoom
If you are a photographer with a new book, a publisher, or an avid collector and would like to be featured on BookTalk, please drop us an email and we'll talk.
About the Program Format
This program will take place on Zoom. Those who register to attend will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the talk through a computer or mobile device.
We recommend participants download the Zoom app on their device prior to the program. Learn how to download the latest version of Zoom to your computer or mobile device.
Please note: we strive to record all sessions to make a recording available after the program, but technical issues do happen. Recordings are not guaranteed for each session. We recommend participants tune in live if there is a session they don’t want to miss.
Past BookTalk Guests
Jennifer Yoffy, Yoffy Press, Marcy Palmer, You Are Eternity, You Are the Mirror, Forest McMullin, Late Harvest, John Sanderson, Carbon County, Lynne Buchannan, Florida's Changing Waters: A Beautiful World in Peril, Ken Dreyfack, Silent Stages, Janet Holmes, Nest, Rick McClosky, Van Nuys Blvd, 1972, Eric Kunsman, Fake News, Patrick Murphy, Reserved Mr Memory, Fran Forman, The Rest Between Two Notes, Josephine Sacabo, Structures of Reverie, Jenny Sampson, Skater Girls, Robert Schultz, War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Memorials, Sandy Carson & Jennifer Yoffy, Passing Place, Susan Berger, Life and Soul, Carole Glauber, Personal History, Harvey Stein & Andrew Fedynak, Then and There: Mardi Gras 1979, Anne Berry, Primates, Behind Glass, Kirsten Hoving & Emma Powell, Svala’s Saga, David Carol & Ashly Stohl, New Releases from Peanut Press, Mark Alice Durant, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling, Flynn Larsen, Cosmic Dance, Karen Davis, Still Stepping: A Family Portrait, Keron Psillas Oliveira Cavalo Lusitano: The Spirit Within, Bill Gentile, Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll, Dale Niles, What Lies Within, Renee Jacobs, Polaroids and Paris, Patricia Houghton, Facing Ourselves: Reckoning, Maria Ausherman, Behind the Camera: American Women Photographers Who Shaped How We See The World, Douglas Stockdale, Lydias Panas, Sleeping Beauty, Cathy Panebianco, Holding Time, Aline Smithson, Fugue State, Sal Taylor Kydd, Yesterday, Ron Cooper, Celebrating Humanity, Rick Schatzberg, The Boys, Jane Ivory, Urban Anomalies, Shannon Davis, Controlled Burn, Jordanna Kalman, Little Romances, Charles Lovell, Back When the Good Times Rolled, Zoe Wiseman, Sunkissed 85, Nancy Farese, Potential Space.
View the videos of past BookTalks on our YouTube channel below
Second Saturday Coffee at The SE Center for Photography
Join us the Second Saturday of each month, 11:00AM-1PM, for coffee and donuts at the Center. No agenda, no pressure, just like minded individuals interested in photography getting together to talk, share work, relax for a while. Feel free to use our lot in the back.
Second Saturday Coffee is held in the Poinsette Plaza Building, 104 S Main St, Greenville, SC, 1st Floor opposite the Security Desk
©Bruce Schlein
Coffee folk sharing & viewing the work of others
©Bruce Schlein
Monica Stevenson discussing her HORSEscapes exhibition at Saturday Coffee
