Emily Wiethorn

Afterimage: Portraiture as Memory includes works by photographers and lens-based artists from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky engaging with the remnants of what has been and the echoes of what is yet to come. Every photograph leaves a mark on the viewer and the maker, a visual and emotional connection that extends beyond the moment it was taken. Portraits become cherished artifacts and family albums transform into archives filled with love and resilience.

Afterimage: Portraiture as Memory invites one to pause and reflect on how photographs can bridge distances, connecting the past with the present, the self with others, and here with there. The camera is not just a tool for recording; it transforms moments and gazes into images that resonate beyond their creation and explores connections between memory, identity, and time through portraiture and contemporary storytelling. In this exhibition, artists revisit family photographs, document the closeness of current relationships, and envision futures in which today’s images become tomorrow’s proof. Whether personal, collective, documentary, or experimental, these works showcase photography’s quiet ability to capture who we were, who we are, who we might become, and how we might be remembered.

Artists: Alane Shoemaker, Alyssa McRoberts, Amy Kim, Cassidy Brauner, Cate Cole, Claire Wiedman, Clarissa Brown, Clementine Deck, Crystal Tursich, Daniel McInnis, Edmund Boateng, Elan Schwartz, Ella Wiggins, Frank Geiser, Grant Lawler, Ian Gunn, Jesse Ly, Jessica Raetzke, Julie Rae Powers, Logan St Hillaire, Michael Molloy, Michaelann Kelley, Nicholas Shellman, Sarah Smith, Swati Chopra

Also with Joshua Berg (artist), John-David Richardson (artist)

Cost: Free to the Public

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How does one tell a story with no beginning, middle, or end? A survivor of sexual assault and abduction, Emily Wiethorn uses this body of work to speak her truth and feel the anger society says she must leave behind. Six years ago, Wiethorn was drugged, abducted, and sexually assaulted by a man who remains a stranger to her. That time exists mostly as a black hole in her mind; memory is challenging when it’s been taken. The memories that do remain from that night haunt her. The Death of You and Me is an examination of memory, suffering, and the effects of trauma. Wiethorn’s work exists outside the confines of reality in the nonlinear path of healing, recovery, and the suffocating feeling of PTSD. Her work questions how trauma and imprisonment change one’s understanding of oneself; how trauma changes those closest to the victim; and how one tells a story with no beginning, middle, or end.

Cost: Free to the Public

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Join the Sinclair Community College Art Department over Zoom to hear from visiting artists, Katria Foster and Emily Wiethorn, about their exhibitions: Domestic Affair and The Death of You and Me.

Additional Information: Reach out to amanda.darrah@sinclair.edu to request Zoom link.

Artists: Katria Foster

Cost: Free to the Public

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