with
Annemarie Sawkins, John Sobczak, and Emma Hitzman
Milwaukee Public Library, East Branch | 2320 N Cramer St.
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Saturday October 11 | 9:30A to 2:30P
60 minute Sessions | 3 reviews @ 20 minutes each | $100
CoPA is pleased to offer another portfolio review session to members. Each 60-minute session will allow participants to meet with three different reviewers in 20-minute sessions, offering a unique opportunity to review your working portfolio, collection, or body of work and receive insightful feedback, critique, perspective, and advice on direction. Each 60-minute session will allow three participants per session at 9:30A, 10:45A and 1:30P, for a total of nine available appointments.
The sign-up form is coming soon. If you’ve never had a portfolio review, please consider signing up for this exciting and empowering experience! Get your work in front of three experts for their undivided attention and priceless advice. Cindy Hansen is available to answer questions and offer encouragement at [email protected]. This is for all members!
About the Reviewers
Annemarie Sawkins 
Annemarie Sawkins, PhD, is a Milwaukee-based independent curator, art and architectural historian, and co-author of A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art (2021). She has curated projects ranging from Afghan war rugs and Art Nouveau to the history of burlesque. Her most recent exhibitions include Profound Prints: Art by Exceptional Women at the Hilliard Art Museum, and In the Park with Olmsted (2022) at the Villa Terrace. For the Warehouse Art Museum, she curated Rediscovering Ruth Grotenrath (2023), Art Japan (2021), and On the Nature of Wisconsin (2020). When not curating, Annemarie advises artists and collectors.
John Sobczak 
Upon receiving his undergraduate degrees in photography and printmaking from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee John Sobczak began his career in the art gallery business where he continued his interest in photography through curating and organizing exhibitions featuring some of the most important contemporary artists in working photographic mediums. His positions and efforts included the following: Michael H. Lord Gallery, assistant director, one person exhibitions included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gilbert and George, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jan Groover. Dean Jensen Gallery, assistant director, one person exhibitions included Lee Friedlander, Robert Adams, O. Winston Link, Aaron Siskind, Helen Levitt, William Klein and Nicholas Nixon among others. Most recently he co-founded and directed The Alice Wilds where he produced one person exhibitions by Tom Bamberger, Steven D. Foster, Grant Gill, Kyle Seis, Julie Weber and Wendel White.
Emma Hitzman 
Emma Hitzman was raised in the rural Midwest and has lived in Northeast Wisconsin for a majority of her career. She received her BA in Studio Arts and a minor in Arts Management with an emphasis in Gallery and Museum Practices in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. Currently, she represents the Cedarburg Art Museum as Museum Curator. Hitzman’s artwork and research centralizes around nostalgia, remembered environments, and how they are explored through alternative photographic processes.
What to Expect
You may present your images digitally (on a laptop or tablet) or printed. If there is a specific series or body of work you’ve been putting together, that’s great! This is the perfect opportunity to get some insight and direction.
A portfolio of ten related images is best.
- Bring up to 10 images as a core body of your work.
- If you have two bodies of work you want reviewed:
- Bring two sets of five photos (five from each body of work) for a total of ten photographs.
You will sit with a reviewer for 20 minutes, switch to the next reviewer, and then with the third to finish the hour. Start each review by letting them know what you hope to achieve with this review, such as a professional critique of your photographs, guidance on creating a body of work, or a suggestion for your next step. Whereas time is short with each reviewer, and 20 minutes is going to fly by, make your goal known right away and then listen to their valuable insight. You can also provide this information ahead of time via the form. You may want to bring a notebook and pen to take notes.
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