To Prospective Yuma Symposium Presenters

Symposium presenters come from a wide variety of media and from all walks of creative life including those in academia, emerging artists, international icons and working makers at various points in their careers. The qualities that unify the over 250 top-notch presenters who have appeared in Yuma are passion and commitment to their art or craft, the quality of their work and their willingness to engage, inform and usually entertain. Presenters leave as ambassadors for Yuma, Arizona Western College and the Symposium.

Please keep in mind –

Presentations run about 60 to 90 minutes for a lecture and 2 hours for a combined lecture with demonstration. Demonstrations alone run 90minutes. The lecture or demo is done one time during the symposium. Priority is given to lectures with demos. The audience is from 150 to 200 people. An attempt is made to represent as many disciplines as possible.