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2025
Food and justice stories, made by Sac State Photo alums in collaboration with the Yolo Food Bank, will continue with an exhibition in 2025.
We are currently seeking sponsors to help resource the second phase of this project. Please reach out if you are interested in supporting our work.
@ Yolo Arts Art Barn, July 2025
2024
Kim Abeles visited Sac State in conjunction with her exhibition at the Library Gallery. In her workshop with juniors and seniors in the Sac State Photo program, she taught participants to make Smog Collectors—a device she uses often in her work. Ceramic plates are covered with cut stencils, made by artists. They are then left out under the sky—on a rooftop, in a garden, on a front step—for a period of weeks or months. Plates are then collected, the stencil material is removed, and the image that remains is fixed with a natural fixer: an image made from smog.
Coordination, Art Direction and Publishing: Eliza Gregory
Book design: Sammy Reyes and Angelina Povio
Photography: Nick Shepard and Boris Rajeski
Supported by: the Sacramento State College of Arts & Letters Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant, California State Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP), and the Photography Special Projects Fund
2024
Sac State's Art Sculpture Lab building has a storied history. The Art Department commissioned Floodplain Projects to produce a photo book that documented the building. Art Department Chair Rachel Clarke and Professor Mya Dosch conducted interviews and collected historical materials from faculty and alumni. The book is a testament to the affection for the ASL and the impact of the Art Department in Sacramento.
Coordination, Art Direction and Publishing: Eliza Gregory
Book Design: Olivia Lopez, with Binh Nguyen and Trevor Dahm
Photography: Trevor Dahm, Olivia Lopez and Binh Nguyen
Supported by: the Sacramento State College of Arts & Letters, and the California State Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP)
2024
In homage to the courageous and beautiful self portraits made by Carla Williams, and the exquisite book design done by Paul Schiek, the senior cohort in photography and I have modeled a catalogue of their work on the book Tender, published by TBW books in 2023.
Coordination, Art Direction and Publishing: Eliza Gregory
Publication Design: Evalina Carillo and Olivia Bailey, in homage to Paul Schiek's design for Tender, by Carla Wililams.
Photography: See interior credits.
Supported by: California State Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP), and the Photography Special Projects Fund
2023
In the fall of 2023, Eliza Gregory led students in the Sacramento State University Photography BFA Program on a suite of field trips to do experiential research about relationships to land. The group built an archive of audio recordings and photographs of their experiences and the people, places and institutions they visited, which was used to create a podcast and an exhibition. This booklet showcases the process and products of that work.
Coordination, Art Direction and Publishing: Eliza Gregory
Publication Design: Jon Wong, with Angelo Hinojosa and Yancey Mejia
Photography: See interior credits.
Supported by: the Sacramento State College of Arts & Letters Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant, California State Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP), and the Photography Special Projects Fund
2023
Enoch Ku came to visit the senior portfolio class for Sac State Photo in the spring of 2023. He taught a workshop around how to make projects within his Ordinary project. We then modeled a publication on his monograph My Neighborhood Rosemont, CA (우리 동네 로즈먼트), using the student and faculty photographs made in the workshop.
Coordination, Art Direction and Publishing: Eliza Gregory
Book design: Enoch Ku with Andrew Dumitru
Photography: See interior credits.
Supported by: the Sacramento State College of Arts & Letters Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant and the Photography Special Projects Fund
2023
Erina Alejo came to visit the senior portfolio class for Sac State Photo in the spring of 2023. They led a workshop in relationship to their work A Hxtory of Renting and My Ancestors Followed Me Here that focused on mental health, intergenerational renting, and the joys and challenges of intergenerational households in small spaces.
Coordination, Art Direction and Publishing: Eliza Gregory
Book design: Erina Alejo and Jerlyn Jareunpoon-Phillips
Photography: See interior credits.
Supported by: the Sacramento State College of Arts & Letters Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant and the Photography Special Projects Fund
2023
Quincy Stamper came to visit the senior portfolio class for Sac State Photo in the spring of 2023. He conducted a workshop on making headshots on location with natural light. We then took those images and came up with a prompt for ourselves as a group (PHOTO 180). We responded to the prompt beneath our pictures, and made a book of those written-on prints.
Coordination, Art Direction and Publishing: Eliza Gregory
Book design: Parker Allison and Eliza Gregory
Photography: Quincy Stamper
Supported by: the Sacramento State College of Arts & Letters Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant and the Photography Special Projects Fund
2023
In the summer of 2023 the Yolo Food Bank hired seven recent graduates of the Sac State Photo program to make artwork about food and justice in Yolo County. Each student was paired with a local nonprofit partner of the Yolo Food Bank. Yolo Food Bank staff and the partner organizations provided feedback on the artists' work. Final images were delivered to Yolo Food Bank and the partner organizations for use in organizational communications.
Coordination, Art Direction and Mentorship: Eliza Gregory
Participating Artists: Bibi Garcia, Sammantha Reyes, Binh Nguyen, Charles Brewer, Joseph Roman, Vicky Chaebin Yoon, Seren Fernandez
Supported by: The Yolo Food Bank