Panel Discussion: Rachel Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, and Michelle Millar Fisher
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
As part of MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape, join us for a panel discussion between exhibiting artists Rachel Cox and Rose Marie Cromwell and author/curator Dr. Michelle Millar Fisher. The panelists will explore photography’s role in constructing personal and political memory, focusing on motherhood in considering how images become repositories for emotion, trauma, and care across time.
Admission is free; ticket reservations are encouraged.
Rachel Cox is a contemporary artist working primarily in the disciplines of image-based media. Her work explores themes of reproduction, mothering, and personal autonomy through photography, printmaking, and historical analog processes. Cox holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. Her work has been featured widely in the US and abroad, including the Joslyn Art Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, the Des Moines Art Center, Southeast Museum of Photography, The Belfast International Photography Festival, The Musee del'Elysee (Lausanne, Switzerland), Museo Amparo (Pueblo, Mexico), and Photo London.
Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographer and artist from Seattle, based in Miami. Her first book, El Libro Supremo de la Suerte (TIS Books, 2018), won the Light Work Photobook Prize and was named one of TIME’s 25 Best Photobooks of 2018. She later published Eclipse (TIS Books) and A More Fluid Atmosphere (Pomegranate Press) in 2021.
In 2024, Cromwell presented her first solo museum exhibition at ICA Miami, a solo exhibition at Pier 24 Photography, and was included in Truth Told Slant at the High Museum of Art. Her work has also been exhibited at the Norton Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation, and The Carnegie as part of the FotoFocus Biennial. In 2025, she had a solo exhibition with VISU Gallery in Miami and exhibited with EUQINOM Gallery at ZⓈONAMACO and Photo London. She opened her first solo exhibition with EUQINOM Gallery in November 2025. Her work will also be included in the 2026 Florida Prize exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art.
Cromwell is a recipient of a Fulbright Grant and a Getty Reportage Grant and was an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Getty, the High Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Norton Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Photo by Lidewij Mulder.
Dr. Michelle Millar Fisher is the chief curator at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. From 2019-2026 she was the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She also collaborates with an independent team on a book (MIT Press, 2021), a touring exhibition, and a program series called “Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births.” Previously she worked at MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. She holds an MA, two MPhils, and a PhD in Art History, and publishes and lectures widely on craft, design, and architecture.
Images above: Left: Rose Marie Cromwell, The Cactus, 2026, archival inkjet print. Photo courtesy of the artist. Right: Rachel Cox, V, M, and Egg, 2026, silver gelatin print. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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