Present Tense Artist Talks

Event date: May 24, 2025, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

 
 

Present Tense Artist Talks are in-person, quarterly events hosted by Medium Photo, showcasing work from four selected photographers.

During each Present Tense Artist Talk, participating photographers share up to 20 slides of a singular body of work projected on a large screen in a repeating loop. Each photographer will discuss their work throughout the slide show and responds to a Q&A during a 15-minute period.

Present Tense Artist Talks are an informal, conversational environment moderated by Medium Photo. There is no cost to submit your work.

 

Present Tense Artist Talks, May 24, 2025

Point Loma/Hervey Library - Community Room
3701 Voltaire St, San Diego, CA 92107

Event Timeline

  • 2:00 - 2:50 Open Portfolio Walk with artists selected by Dinah Poellnitz (details below)

  • 3:00 - 4:00 Present Tense Artist Talks

  • 4:00 - 5:00 Peer networking

Present Tense #5 Juror: Dinah Poellnitz, Co-founder, Curator, Director of Development, The Hill Street Country Club

Each edition of Present Tense Artist Talks will have a different juror of note drawn from across North America, and each juror will select three presenters for the talks, and four additional artists for the portfolio walk. The fourth presenter at each Present Tense talk is a student selected by the faculty of a participating college.

About Dinah

Dinah is one of the Co-founders of The HSCC, Curator, and Director of Development for the space. Dinah grew up between Vista & Oceanside, and was always inspired by the diverse activity that surged up & down Hill Street in the 70s - 90s. Graduating from University of CA Riverside in 2006, she earned a BA in Art History + Arts Administration. While her accomplishments as an arts professional & board member are extensive, she is also a committed and active member of many local political orgs, and is constantly working towards building a more sustainable & creative society.

“We can't build and sustain a thriving art community by ignoring our history. Art is a personal, communal and universal message to record our cultural experiences. Art is for everyone. "Country clubs" are generally members only. We wanted to cancel out the ideal that art only belongs to a small few. So, it just made sense. Our art exhibitions are the embodiment of love for our community.” -Dinah

Visit www.thehillstreetcountryclub.org for more information or follow @thehillstreetcountryclub on Instagram

Submissions and File Formats

You will be asked to submit 15-20 images from a body or work. If your work is selected all 15-20 of these images will be projected at Present Tense Artist Talks. These are the files that will be used in your final presentation. Images must be submitted as jpeg files numbered in the sequence you want them seen, with title, media and year using this naming convention:

sequence #-title-media-year.jpg

example: 01-Seaweed-Cyanotype-2023

Files must be 2000px in the long dimension, saved at 1MB or smaller. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.