Meet the Artist
Jill Enfield and Kay Kenny
January 12, 2023
5:30 – 7:30 pm
474 Broadway, Kingston, NY
On Thursday, January 12, our Meet the Artist series welcomes Jill Enfield and Kay Kenny, both members of Women Photographers Collective. Women Photographers Collective is a mid-Hudson Valley, women-identified membership organization that promotes community building, networking, mentorship, and opportunities for presenting and exhibiting work. Enfield and Kenny will discuss the collective, and introduce their own work. These talks will be live-streamed on CPW’s Facebook page.
Join us Thursday evenings at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. Meet the Artist allows the public to get to know new work, explore artists’ processes, and meet other local artists. Coffee and tea will be provided. Meet the Artist will take place at CPW’s facilities at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY, and is free and open to the public.
Jill Enfield is a fine art photographer, educator, and author. Her concentration is historical techniques and alternative processes, with annual workshops and lectures in locations around the world. She has been teaching at Parsons The New School of Design since the late 1980s.
Her three books: Photo Imaging: A Complete Guide To Alternative Processes published by Amphoto, and, Jill Enfield’s Guide to Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques published by Focal Press, 1st and 2nd Editions, are award-winning works and used in schools all over the world.
Enfield has shown her work throughout the USA and Europe. Enfield was the keynote speaker at the Finnish Darkroom Association in March of 2022 and in November 2020 became one of the advisors to the Lishui International Handmade Photography Center in China. Her fine art images can be seen in many museums as well as in private collections.
Kay Kenny has received a BFA from Syracuse University, MA from Rutgers University, and MFA from Syracuse University all in Visual Arts. She is a painter and photographer in addition to writing art criticism and articles on the visual arts. Kenny was a photography teacher for over 25 years at New York University, and the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Kenny has received third place in the 2021 Soho Photo Alternative Photography Award, 2019 honorable mention Margaret Cameron Photography Award, 2016 NJSCA Artist Fellowship for Works on Paper. 2015 Arthur Griffin Legacy Award, Griffin Museum, 2009 Honorable Mention in FineArts Photography Lucie Awards. Three-time recipient of NJSCA fellowship award. Kenny’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently in Griffin Museum 2022 Curator’s Choice Virtual Gallery, and her work is in several notable corporate, museum and private collections.
Meet the Artist is actively taking proposals. Please mail education@cpw.org with inquiries and for additional information.
Photo by Jill Enfield