Events & Appearances: :: Talks & Presentations ::

I am available as a presenter or panelist and look forward to the opportuity to talk about my work as a photographer and/or editor, especially as it relates to documentary and concerned photography.

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

please contact me for information

"DIsh & Dine @ Ferrin Gallery: Jason Houston, Concerned Photographer"

Dinner and slideshow presentation

Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA

6:30-9pm February 20, 2010

"Art & Activism: Concerned Photography"

Artist's reception opening talk for Farm Film Feast

Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA

7-9pm March 11, 2010

"Conservation-Inspired Photography"

Center for Environmental Studies Speaker Series

Williams College, Williamstown, MA

November 5, 2010

EXAMPLES OF RECENT PRESENTATIONS

"Art & Activism"

Public lecture

Yale University (New Haven, CT)

"Art+Environment Conference"

Presenter and panelist

Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, NV)

"Silliman's College Master's Tea with Jason Houston"

Presentation to masters students

Yale University (New Haven, CT)

"FARMER"

Opening reception & talk

Stone Barns Center (Pocantico Hills, NY)

"In The World's Shadow: South Africa's Informal Settlements"

National Endowment for the Humanities Public lecture for Alfred University (Alfred, NY)

"Nature in Media"

Presenter & Panelist

New Britian Museum of American Art

(New Britan, CT)

"Global Poverty Iniative"

Event Exhibitor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Cambridge, MA)

"Photography for Social Change"

Lecture

Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY)

"Images of South Africa"

Public lecture

University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)

"Doing Documentary Work"

Highschool workshop

Four Rivers Charter School (Greenfield, MA)

"Special Screening & Artists Talk: Cowboy Yoga"

Canyon Ranch in Lenox (Lenox, MA)

"Art, Editorial & Doing Meaningful Work"

Lunchtime Lecture

PhotoLucida (Portland, OR)

"The Art of Stewardship Project"

Sustainability Confrence at Unity College (Unity, ME)

"Brave New Landscape"

Panelist

Storefront Artists Program (Pittsfield, MA)

"Kenya's Samburu"

Presentation

Muddy Brook Elementary School

(Great Barrington, MA)

"Art & Activism"

Art Talks 2007 Lecture Series

IS183 School of Art (Stockbridge, MA)

"Dia del Medio Ambiente"

Slide presentation

Rare Consrvation (Chihuahua, Mexico)

"Art & Activism"

Lecture

Darrow School (New Lebanon, NY)

"Berkshire Farmers"

Fundraiser slide presentation

Berkshire Grown (Pittsfield, MA)

"Global Village"

Lecture

Monument Mountain Regional Highschool (Gt. Barrington, MA)

"Impressions of Rare Pride, Nicaragua"

Slide presention

Rare Conservation (Washington DC)

"The Río San Juan"

Slide presentation

Rare Conservation (NYC)

"Art Inspired by Activism"

Marty Lasker Lecture Series

Becket Arts Center (Becket, MA)

"Field to Plate"

Fundraiser slide presentation

Berkshire Grown (Lenox, MA)

"Grown Here (a preshow for Future of Food)"

Slide presentation

Berkshire Grown/Triplex Theater (Gt. Barrington, MA)

"The Rest of the Story: Preserving Local Agriculture"

Panelest

Berkshire Living magazine (Gt. Barrington, MA)

"Doing Photography"

Lecture

Springfield College (Springfield, MA)