Corkin Talks: I am my own muse

Join David Little in conversation with artists Barbara Astman, Michelle Forsyth, and AUArts Sessional Instructor Sondra Meszaros. They celebrate current exhibition, "I am my own muse" and discuss the trajectory of women in photography over the past century.

Executive Director of the International Center of Photography in New York, David Little, will be in conversation with artists Barbara Astman, Michelle Forsyth, and AUArts Sessional Instructor Sondra Meszaros. To celebrate current exhibition, "I am my own muse", the group will discuss the trajectory of women in photography over the past century.

Visionary artist Barbara Astman has pioneered feminist conversations and the photographic medium since the 1970s. Her photographic series incorporate narrative elements with humour and stereotype to respond to and transgress the cultural zeitgeist.

Multidisciplinary artist Michelle Forsyth  refers to indelible memories and patterns in her autobiographical work. Her practice addresses the changing relationship with her body after being diagnosed with early Parkinson’s disease. She is currently an Associate Professor of Contemporary Painting Practices at OCAD.

Sessional Instructor Sondra Meszaros is a multidisciplinary artist disrupting the boundaries of the familiar with provocative and seductive images. Her recent work explores counter-narratives of female sexuality via archival materials. For over two decades, she has been teaching drawing at the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary.