Monthly Meeting

Sunday, September 15, 2024, 2–4; business meeting at 2 PM, talk at 3 PM

Colonial Park United Methodist Fellowship Hall, 5330 Park Avenue at Estate (parking & entrance on Estate (West side of church)).

Shannon Fagan will speak on the basics of generative AI systems, tools of use, and how artificial intelligence systems are affecting copyrights for visual art.  

Shannon grew up in Midtown Memphis’ Vollintine-Evergreen District, graduated from Central High School, earned a BFA in Photography at The University of Memphis, and completed a MBA at The University of Maryland.  His commercial photography career has focused upon lifestyle stock photography; licensing imagery for marketing and advertising use internationally.  He’s lived extensively in New York City, Beijing, Vancouver, Honolulu, and Memphis; and has a depth of experience in small business, photography production, copyright and unauthorized use, and financial & estate planning in the arts.