Past Distinguished Photographers

Recordings of some past Distinguished Photographer Series presentations can be found in the PSNWA Library.
  •  November 10, 2020
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series presents Lou Meluso, a photographer who has worked for museums like the Getty in Los Angeles and the Nelson Atkins in Kansas City. As an expert technician and artist image maker, Lou was also Director of Imaging at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Currently the Director of the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, he is both gifted and creative, facets to the foundation of his talk for PSNWA: “Gaining Impact in Your Images”.

Lou will inspire you, while helping tear down preconceptions that get in the way of great image making.

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  •  October 6, 2020
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series presents Beverly Buys, a cyanotype artist from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

A former educator who is listed on the Arkansas Arts Registry, she is a 57th Delta exhibition participant, and has hung solo shows at the Delta Cultural Center, ASU Beebe Gallery, and many other locations. Primarily known for cyanotypes, she is an analogue photographer working with light sensitive materials and chemistry in a traditional darkroom.

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  •  August 4, 2020
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Since 2017, Carlos Diaz has travelled 30,000 miles photographing Confederate Monuments as they are being removed. As a person of color, he is “bravely attentive” to American history and national shortcomings on race and diversity.

In an effort to better understand the controversy and complexity of Confederate Monuments, Carlos hopes his viewers will engage as culture transforms, and contribute to conversations about our changing American experience.

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  •  July 7, 2020
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Since 2018, Eileen Powers has had 11 rounds of chemotherapy, abdominal resection surgery due to lymphoma, a stem cell transplant and a CAR t-cell treatment.

She is a photographer, artist and graphic designer living on Cape Cod who fought cancer with levity and joy. Upon losing hair to chemo, her friends replaced it in the most humorous ways – eventually making nearly 100 heads of replacement hair.

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