Allison Minto
Trained in journalism and photography, Allison Minto uses her artistic practice to explore ideas of history, place, and how archiving—both personal and institutional—contributes to the preservation of memory, particularly for Black communities and the Black diaspora. Minto’s Black New Haven Archive: A Collective Memory Project is organized and presented in partnership with ArtSpace, Stetson Library and the bldg fund. It helps Black families in New Haven archive family photos to preserve images as well as histories. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art, where she received the John Ferguson Weir Award, and a BA in Journalism from SUNY-Buffalo State College. Minto is currently a Yale University Art Gallery/Artspace New Haven 2021-2022 Happy and Bob Doran Connecticut Artist in Residence, a 2021-2022 DocX Archive Lab Fellow at Duke University, and a member of Diversify Photo.
Laurel V. McLaughlin
Laurel V. McLaughlin (she/her/hers) is a curator, art historian, writer, and educator from Philadelphia (unceded lands of the Lenni-Lenape). McLaughlin holds MAs from The Courtauld Institute of Art and Bryn Mawr College, and is currently a History of Art Ph.D. Candidate at Bryn Mawr, writing a dissertation concerning performative migratory aesthetics. Her research has been supported by a 2020–2021 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art and a 2021–2022 Bryn Mawr College Dean’s Fellowship. She has shared her scholarly and curatorial work in national and international conferences and her writing has been published in
Art Papers, Art Practical, BOMB Magazine, Performa Magazine, Contact Quarterly, and
Performance Research, among others. McLaughlin has organized exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Arthur Ross Gallery and the ICA Philadelphia, and the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture. Currently, she is organizing the traveling 2021–2023 survey
Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body forthcoming at Emerson Contemporary, Boston in fall 2022, and
Dyschronics and
Footnotes and other embedded stories at Artspace New Haven.
Brad Smith
Brad Smith is an award-winning photo editor with over 35 years of experience in visual storytelling. He's worked in the sports industry as Director of Photography at Time Inc. Sports Publications, twice garnering Sports Illustrated the Henry Luce Award for Magazine Cover of the Year, and as Senior Sports Photo Editor at The New York Times, receiving First Place in Photo Editing for Picture of the Year (POY) on several occasions. He's managed live edits for some of the most visually stimulating sports events in the world, coordinating and editing photography for numerous Olympics, Super Bowls, World Series, and Final Fours. He has also delivered historical presidential moments as the Associate Director of Photography for the White House during the Clinton administration, and covered events with unparalleled import, such as 9/11. Currently he's the Vice President for Photography for the WWE, a massive entertainment company, overseeing the global photography division.
Instagram:
@bradpix