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Explore the artistic life and legacy of Bailey Doogan in this conversation with fellow artists, former students, colleagues and collectors.
Panelists Terry Etherton, Doug Nielsen, Cynthia Miller and Ann Simmons-Myers will illuminate the personal and often collaborative processes Doogan used to create her work, as well as the ideas and approaches she shared with generations of students and peers. The discussion will be moderated by Violet Arma, curator of the exhibition Bailey Doogan: Ways of Seeing.
Please note that this event, which is free and open to the public, takes place in the auditorium at the Center for Creative Photography.
Terry Etherton is a prominent photography dealer whose work has helped shape the market for twentieth-century and contemporary photography. As part of a small group of gallerists who helped establish photography as a recognized and collectible art form, he has spent more than four decades championing artists — including Bailey Doogan — while broadening the field’s audience and supporting the professional structures that sustain the medium today.
A painter and poet, Cynthia Miller received an MFA from the University of Arizona, where her notable mentors included Bailey (then "Peggy") Doogan. A teaching artist since 1981, Miller has inspired artists of all ages, most recently creating a studio art program in drawing and painting at the University of Houston-Victoria, Texas. She has exhibited extensively throughout Arizona and at Cue Gallery in New York City, and her work is in private collections throughout the U.S. as well as in the Netherlands and United Kingdom.
Doug Nielsen is a performer, choreographer, teacher, art collector and former professor in the U of A School of Dance. After performing as principal dancer with companies in Israel and New York, he founded his own dance company in 1981. Nielsen subsequently taught dance in many countries and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. He was a friend of Bailey Doogan, a collector of her work, and generously loaned five objects from his private collection to the Ways of Seeing exhibition.
Ann Simmons-Myers is a photographer and educator born in Berkeley, California. She received an MFA in Photography from the University of Arizona in 1981 and headed the photography program at Pima Community College from 1990-2017. Simmons-Myers began making portraits of Bailey Doogan in 1981 and worked with her in various photographic capacities throughout the next four decades.
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