Artist Talk & Panel Discussion: Jim Mangan

5:30 – 6:30 Wanlass/Russell Performance Hall

6:30 – 7:30 Reception at NEHMA

Celebrate NEHMA’s newest exhibition, Jim Mangan: The Crick, with an evening of discussion featuring artist Jim Mangan. Discover his photographic series documenting young men from the FLDS town of Short Creek, located along the Utah-Arizona border. Artist Jim Mangan will be joined by writer Judith Freeman and Short Creek community member Roman Bateman as they dive into the ways that Mangan’s photography and written storytelling illuminate both realities and imagined stories of this marginalized part of the contemporary American West.

Panelists:

Jim Mangan, Photographer

Roman Bateman, Community Member of Short Creek, former FLDS community

Judith Freeman, American novelist, focused on Western and Mormon themes

Moderated by Danielle Stewart, Curator & Head of Academic Initiatives, NEHMA