Speaking Volumes: Fresh and Familiar Faces

Opening Reception: January 17, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: January 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Photography Lecture: January 18 at 11:00 a.m. by Christine Garceau, PhD

Songs for Social Justice: Judy Fjell, singer-songwriter, Beth Youngblood, violin, and Janet Harvig, cello: February 15 at 2:00 p.m.

Featured Artists: 

Enrique Chagoya Bio

Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late 1970s, and also in Europe in the late 1990s, Enrique Chagoya juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols in order to address the ongoing cultural clash between the United States, Latin America, and the world. He uses familiar pop icons to create deceptively friendly points of entry for the discussion of complex issues. Through these seemingly harmless characters, Chagoya examines the recurring subject of colonialism and oppression that continues to riddle contemporary American foreign policy.

Christine Garceau Bio

At Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming Christine Garceau enjoys mentoring photography students to realize their dreams of becoming professional photographers. She currently teaches classes in photojournalism, video storytelling, digital imaging, the history of photography, large format photography, portfolio production and commercial portraiture. Travel has always been a part of Garceau’s photographic exploration, including leading and participating in field studies trips with students to Romania, Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Costa Rica, England, and Columbia. Her current photographic research springs from a personal passion to understand how place contributes to the construction of one’s cultural, political, and economic identity. Moving from the tall pines along the south shore of Lake Superior to the moisture-depleted high desert of northwest Wyoming has inspired a new body of photographic research, one focused on natural habitats and their continued preservation for wildlife and humans.

Before moving to Wyoming from Michigan in 2012, Garceau taught at Northern Michigan University in Marquette and Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Her classroom pedagogy is underpinned simultaneously by her years of teaching in the academy and twenty years of operating Christine Garceau Photography, LLC with her late husband Phillip Garceau, along with many years as a free-lance photojournalist. Garceau’s photographs have appeared in the Marquette Mining Journal, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, National Geo World, USA Today and numerous other national print and digital media publications.

Garceau earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Photography with a minor in music, a Master of Arts in Education (MAE) in Photography from Northern Michigan University, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Rhetoric and Technical Communication. Her dissertation research was based critiquing the theory of visual representation relating to the cultural formation of identity due to race, class, gender, and age.