# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 05:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for an artist talk with Ace Lehner, a photographer and professor at the University of Vermont, for a conversation centered on portraiture, identity, and representation. Lehner will discuss their creative practice and share insights into the ways photographic images can shape, question, and expand how we understand the self and others.

This talk offers an opportunity to consider portraiture not only as a way of depicting a person, but as a space for dialogue around visibility, authorship, perception, and the complex relationship between photographer, subject, and viewer. Through this broad lens, the event will invite reflection on how photography can engage with questions of identity and representation in both personal and cultural contexts.

About the artist: 

Dr. Ace Lehner is an interdisciplinary visual culture scholar and artist specializing in critical engagement with identity and representation. Lehner’s areas of expertise include trans and queer visual culture and theory, critical approaches to race and representation, modern and contemporary art history and visual culture, photography history and theory, and performance.

Lehner’s writing on art and visual culture has appeared in Art Journal, Cultural Politics, Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, Journal on Images and Culture, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, REFRACT, Visual Studies and more. Lehner’s scholarship has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including a chapter co-authored with Amelia G. Jones in Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (edited by Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia G. Jones, published by Wiley Blackwell, 2023). Lehner recently guest edited the first-ever issue of Art Journal dedicated to trans visual culture. Lehner’s current book project, Trans Representations: Decolonizing Visual Theory in Contemporary Photography (working title), is based on their dissertation research, which won them the College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship in 2020.

Lehner holds a Ph.D. in History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA in Fine Art / MA in Visual Studies from California College of the Arts.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brattleboro/artist-talk-ace-lehner-on-portraiture-identity-and-representation/200030357612358
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Brattleboro
- **state**: VT
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 10 Green Street, Brattleboro, VT, United States, Vermont 05301
- **lat**: 42.85301
- **long**: -72.55939
- **full address**: 10 Green Street, Brattleboro, VT, United States, Vermont 05301

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation being held?
  - **A:** ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation takes place on Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 05:30 pm at 10 Green Street, Brattleboro, VT, United States, Vermont 05301.
- **Q**: Who is organizing ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation?
  - **A:** ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation is organized by Vermont Center for Photography.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Brattleboro, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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