Scott Hilton - Chair
Margaret LeJeune - Vice Chair
Marivi Ortiz - Secretary
Arthur Fields - Co-treasurer
Leah Gose - Co-treasurer
Julie Anand
Jason Flack
Larry Gawel
Meggan Gould
Alexander Heilner
Abbey Hepner
Ann Huang
Brett Kallusky
Ann Kaplan
Janet Pritchard
Jason Reblando
Eric Sung
All board members are elected for four-year terms. Nominations for board members are due by the end of April or early May to the SPE office. Elections take place in the fall. The election of board members is staggered, so each year some board members roll off the board while new members are elected.
Scott Hilton earned his MFA at the California State University in Fullerton in 2005, and his BA at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1992. Hilton has taught as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington since 2009, and was Associate Faculty at Collin College in Frisco, TX from 2006 until 2019. Hilton has been an SPE member since 2003, has served as the Treasurer and Chair of the South Central SPE Chapter, was on the Planning Committee for the 2016 South Central Chapter "retreat" conference at Camp Stewart, TX. He helped to initiate and organize the ... read more
Margaret LeJeune is an image-maker, curator, and educator from Rochester, New York (USA). She received an MFA from Visual Studies Workshop. Working predominantly with photographic-based mediums, LeJeune explores our precarious relationship to the natural world. Her work has been widely exhibited at institutions including The Griffin Museum of Photography (USA), The Center for Fine Art Photography (USA), ARC Gallery (USA), Circe Gallery Cape Town (South Africa), Science Cabin (South Korea), and Umbrella Arts (USA). LeJeune has been invited to create work at several residency programs which foster collaboration between the arts and sciences including the Global Nomadic Art Project – ... read more
Marivi Ortiz is a Puerto Rican born, Chicago based photographer, commercial photo retoucher and adjunct educator. She holds an MFA from the University of Chicago at Illinois. In her art practice she investigates the desire for human connection, personal loss and trauma. She is interested in the process of healing after a traumatic event and the lingering effects of what remain during the process. Her work is meant to inspire, and help survivors convey personal narratives, self-expression and advocacy. Her work has been shown at numerous museums and galleries including University of Texas in San Antonio, Collective Experiences, Chiang Mai Photo Festival in ... read more
Arthur Fields is a multi-disciplianary artist and educator based in North Texas. Arthur completed his MFA in Photography at Texas Womans University in Denton, Texas. He earned his BFA in Digital Imaging at Washington University in St. Louis. Arthur is currently Associate Professor of Art at Dallas College where he teaches courses in photography, digital imaging and design. While his artistic research is based on self-representation and social-media, he is currently focusing on his love for abstraction and the portrait. His works have been included in exhibitions at venues throughout the country including: The University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, IN), Box13 ArtSpace (Houston, TX), Weitman Gallery (St. Louis, MO), ... read more
Leah Gose is a photographic artist and educator. She is an Associate Professor and Dean of the Fain College of Fine Arts at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. She holds a B.A. in Photography from the University of Colorado and an M.F.A. in Photography from Texas Woman's University. Her work seeks to challenge the viewers relationship to their own perception, and ask questions of the reliability of memory. Her work has been exhibited in various venues both nationally and internationally. ... read more
Julie Anand is Associate Professor of Photography in the School of Art at Arizona State University where she has taught for fifteen years. Her projects often explore material culture and body/land relations. Material Histories, large montages of artifacts collected on walks that act as socio-environmental mirrors, were exhibited at the ASU Art Museum and published in the text Art & Politics: A Small History for Social Change after 1945. Parallel to her solo art practice, Anand sustains a collaborative art practice with her partner Damon Sauer. Both artists received their MFA degrees in Photography from the University of New Mexico ... read more
Jason Flack has been a photography educator in the Upstate New York region since 1996, landing his current permanent position at SUNY Monroe Community College in 2007, where he teaches Photography and Video Production courses. In addition to his teaching duties, Jason is the Director of the college's Mercer Gallery, and is currently the Chairperson for the Visual and Performing Arts Department. His time at MCC has included extensive grant writing, securing over 500,000 dollars for equipment used by students in his program. His photographic interests include Large and Medium Format photography exploring the intersection of nature and culture. ... read more
Larry Gawel grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and holds a BFA Degree in Applied Media Arts with a concentration in Photography from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography from Penn State. After graduation, he relocated to Tempe, Arizona where he established his art practice, started a commercial photography business, and held adjunct teaching positions at both Arizona State University, and within the Maricopa County Community College system. In 1998, he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and began working at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, a position that he still holds. Since 2002 ... read more
Meggan Gould is a photographer living and working in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is a Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied anthropology, the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, where she studied non-fiction writing, and Speos (Paris Photographic Institute), where she finally began her studies in photography. She received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, and taught at Kutztown University and Bowdoin College before coming to UNM. Her photographs have been featured in solo ... read more
Alexander Heilner is a multi-disciplinary artist and photographer whose work inhabits both fine art and documentary initiatives as he investigates the relationships between artificial and natural elements within the environment, and within our culture. A winner of the prestigious Baker Artist Prize, Alex has exhibited, screened, and performed his work nationally and internationally, Photography festivals including Pingyao, Sienna, and Daegu have featured his aerial photography, and he has been awarded numerous grants and commissions in support of his ongoing environmental projects. Alex is presently engaged in two long-term endeavors which document radical shifts in our physical and social landscapes due to global warming. Draining ... read more
Abbey Hepner is Assistant Professor of Photography at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She holds undergraduate degrees in Art and Psychology from the University of Utah and an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. Her work examines health, technology, and our relationship with place. She frequently works at the intersection of art and science, examining biopolitics and the use of health as a currency. Her work has been exhibited widely, and her first monograph, The Light at the End of History, will be published by Daylight Books in 2021. ... read more
Ann Huang is a multilingual Chinese American poet, filmmaker and visual artist based in Newport Beach, California. She's begun producing a limited short-film series Ann Huang Presents based on her award-winning poetry since 2016. Huang's film series echoes metaphysical and multiverse themes such as life and death as well as social ills of the man's world perceived by the female eye.They are marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtures such as the collective unconscious by Carl Jung. Her films have received numerous accolades in the film festival circuits and showcased in museums worldwide. Her work can be found at SaffronSplash.com ... read more
Brett Kallusky was born in 1975 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He completed his MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Since 2007, he has taught photography full-time while maintaining an active photographic studio practice. He is an associate professor of art and chair of the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Kallusky has been a Fulbright Fellow to Italy, received three Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants and numerous Faculty Professional Development and Research Grants from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and is a two-time finalist for the McKnight Fellowship for Photography and Visual Arts. His book Landfill: Elegy ... read more
Ann Kaplan is an educator, an artist who both practices and writes about photography, and a cultural worker with over twenty years of experience working with non-profit organizations in arts and education like SPE to meet their goals. Currently an associate professor at Appalachian State University in the mountains of western North Carolina, Kaplan previously served as visiting assistant professor at Elon University and Philippines Women's University in Manila, Philippines. Her photographic work and teaching consider issues of difference, privilege, and the potential of rights for humans and other beings. She teaches classes such as Photography as Social Critique, serves ... read more
Before pursuing a career in photography, Janet Pritchard worked as an outdoor education instructor and spent her youth traveling between the Northeast and Rocky Mountain West. These early experiences led to an awareness of regional differences within the US, and she describes herself as geographically bilingual. Her methodology, described as historical empathy, relies on history, material culture, and ecology to guide her depictions of landscapes as expressions of time and place, situating landscape photography at the intersection of nature and culture. In her current project, The Wild Heart of New England: The Connecticut River & Watershed, she photographs the riverscapes as a ... read more
Jason Reblando is an artist and photographer based in Normal, Illinois. He received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, and a BA in Sociology from Boston College. He is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines, two Artist Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Jason's work focuses on labor, migration, and the socioeconomic forces that shape communities. His projects have been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, Politico, Camera Austria, PDNedu, Slate, Bloomberg ... read more
Eric Sung is a photographer and cultural worker. His innovative and creative vision has materialized multiple interdisciplinary ideas into action with a diverse group of stakeholders. Sung's experiential scholarship and companion works have appeared internationally in peer-reviewed and juried conferences and venues, including the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA), Imagining America (IA), International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement International Conference (IARSLCE), and Global University Network for Innovation International Conference (GUNI). Sung's artworks have been showcased in internationally renowned exhibition venues and public spaces. His art, research, and community empowerment projects were supported by the National Endowment ... read more
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