Lecture: On Seeing with Joan O’Beirne

Artist and educator Joan O’Beirne invites you to share her passion for seeing and reading photographs. O’Beirne will discuss how we perceive images ranging from enigmatic conceptually-based photographs to commonplace social media pics and explore strategies for unravelling meaning. 

Joan O’Beirne is an artist and educator. She received her MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico in 1998. Since moving to Vermont in 2004 she has taught at Marlboro College, Keene State College and currently teaches photography at Greenfield Community College. She served as chair of the board at the Vermont Center for Photography. Currently her exhibit titled The Scarf, funded in part by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation’s Vermont Arts Endowment Fund is installed at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. Her recent work has been shown throughout New England including the Drury Gallery in Marlboro, VT, the Spheris Gallery in Hanover, NH, the Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery in Keene, NH and the Vermont Center for Photography.

Along with teaching full-time at GCC, O’Beirne is active in facilitating groups that meet with residents at the Greenfield Jail. She has taught GCC classes in photography at the jail since 2014 and is working on the fourth annual exhibit of photography, poetry and artwork produced in our groups.

Optional Zoom Attendance: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82926218631?pwd=eHVKV2NvYXBtOXZtV05zVkNobXdPQT09