Alaina Plowdrey Forehand

Conference Participant: International Visual Literacy Association, Seeing Through Time: The Legacy of Images in Memory, Place, and Representation, Co-present and chair the panel “Collage as Thought, Form, and Technology,” Charleston, SC, October 7, 2026.

Co-presentation: “Three Dialogues: Multi-Modal Approaches to Generative AI in Contemporary Art Practice” for the session Balancing Innovation and Tradition: Adapting Coursework in the Wake of AI, at the annual SECAC conference, October 24, 2025.

Co-chair the panel discussion Impact: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Young Visual Artist, presenting her theoretical research considering embodiment and AI art at the Southern Humanities Conference in Greenville, SC, on January 31, 2025.

Group Exhibition at the New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition at Forum Gallery in New York City.

Presentation: "The Environmental and Ecological Embodiment of Blue in the Paintings of Aleah Chapin” at the Southern Humanities Council conference in Savannah, Georgia, February 3rd, 2024.

Presentation: "The New Figure: Considerations of Phenomenological Deconstructionism" at SECAC

Presentation: "Reconsidering Visual Perception: Extending Neuroaesthetics into Phenomenological Embodiment" at Southeastern Association for the Continental Tradition (SEACT)