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

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), PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), and the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA).

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

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 – The Ephemeral River, University of Notre Dame Research Center, Trout Lake Research Station, Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation - Ives Lake Field Station, and the 2023 Changing Climate Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute. She has been awarded two Puffin Foundation Artist Grants, The Sally A. Williams Artist Grant, and was recently named the 2023 Woman Science Photographer of the Year by the Royal Photographic Society. Her works have been published in numerous publications including Culture, Community, and Climate: Conversations from art.earth press and Embodied Forest from ecoartspace. LeJeune currently serves as Professor of Art and Design in Photography at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

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

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 complex interconnected system. She relies on history and science for greater understanding. Her book More than Scenery: Yellowstone, an American Love Story, which views the world's first national park through the lenses of nature, culture, and history, is due in October from George F. Thompson Publishing. 

Honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship; Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowships; American Antiquarian Society Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar, Smith Center for Cartography, Newberry Library; Artist-in-Residencies at Ucross Foundation, Jentel Foundation, Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, Millay Foundation, and the Vindolanda Trust; UConn awards include Research Excellence Program, School of Fine Arts Research Grant, and a Humanities Institute Fellowship. Her exhibition venues include Philadelphia Museum of Art; RISD Museum, Providence; Fruitlands and New Bedford Art Museums, Massachusetts; Fraction Magazine; FlakPhoto; Lenscratch; International Center for Photography, New York; Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Photographic Resource Center, Boston; and the SPE sponsored National Trust for Historic Preservation traveling exhibition America's Uncommon Places.

Pritchard is a Professor, Area Coordinator, Graduate Advisor in Photography, and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering and the Institute of the Environment at the University of Connecticut. She has taught in various visiting and contingent capacities at Tyler School of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Colorado (Boulder & Denver), and the University of New Mexico. Pritchard received her BA in art history, classics, and philosophy from the University of Colorado and her MA and MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico.

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

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.

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

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 in 2005. Their current project Ground Truth explores Cold War concrete markers in the desert used to train the eyes of early spy satellites. This project is the collection of Nevada Museum of Art's Center for Art + Environment and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Ground Truth has been published in Wired, Harper's, National Geographic, and Hyperallergic. Anand and Sauer recently exhibited the work in a solo exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.

Skott Chandler is a photographic artist and Associate Professor at Black Hills State Univeristy in Spearfish, South Dakota. His work expolores experimental film and digital processes, inspired by how photographs can mislead and misrepresent based on the creator's choices. Skott's imagery delves into perceptions of truth, human relationships with time and space, and themes of fear, night, the unseen, and the unkown.  ... read more

Skott Chandler is a photographic artist and Associate Professor at Black Hills State Univeristy in Spearfish, South Dakota. His work expolores experimental film and digital processes, inspired by how photographs can mislead and misrepresent based on the creator's choices. Skott's imagery delves into perceptions of truth, human relationships with time and space, and themes of fear, night, the unseen, and the unkown. 

Louis Chavez is an artist, curator, and educator based in Rochester, New York. Their creative and research interests include queer activism and art practices, conceptual modes in photography, experimental cinema, and artist's books. Chavez was a selected participant in the 2024 Impromptu Photobook Workshop, hosted by the independent photography publisher Void, and was a 2023 Project Space artist-in-residence at Visual Studies Workshop. They were also a graduate presenter at the Society for Photographic Education's national conference in 2023, where they spoke about their thesis project, New Intimacies, which is a photographic study of gay cruising culture. Their photographic work has ... read more

Louis Chavez is an artist, curator, and educator based in Rochester, New York. Their creative and research interests include queer activism and art practices, conceptual modes in photography, experimental cinema, and artist's books. Chavez was a selected participant in the 2024 Impromptu Photobook Workshop, hosted by the independent photography publisher Void, and was a 2023 Project Space artist-in-residence at Visual Studies Workshop. They were also a graduate presenter at the Society for Photographic Education's national conference in 2023, where they spoke about their thesis project, New Intimacies, which is a photographic study of gay cruising culture. Their photographic work has been included in exhibitions at Light Work (Syracuse), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (China), PeepSpace (Tarrytown), Le Petit Versailles (New York City), Culture Lab LIC (New York City), the Hartnett Gallery at the University of Rochester, and the Torpedo Factory Arts Center (Alexandria). In addition to their visual arts practice, Chavez is a Curatorial Associate in the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum. Prior to joining the Eastman Museum, they taught beginner photography courses at Monroe Community College and the Rochester Institute of Technology and worked as a Studio Assistant for artists Jack Waters and Peter Cramer and photographer Joshua Rashaad McFadden. Chavez holds an M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.S. from SUNY Brockport.

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

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. 

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

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 and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. She was a resident at LightWork in 2009, and her photographs are in public collections including the DeCordova Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the Preus Museum in Oslo, Norway. She is a 2022 recipient of the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship. Her multifaceted practice is an open-ended dissection of vision and photo geekery, a celebration of places where technology fails us, or where we fail technology. 

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

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 the Colorado catalogs the diminishment of water throughout the Colorado River Basin; while The New Arctic examines the imminent and rapid changes occurring in Arctic coastal communities. For over a decade, Alex has also been photographing the elaborate campsites that serve as "home" for citizens of Black Rock City, the temporary desert metropolis built each summer for Burning Man.

Alex' editorial and fine art work have been featured in National Geographic, The Guardian, Politico, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Details; myriad websites including Wired, Lenscratch, Ain't-Bad, Fraction,Juxtapoz, and Design Taxi; and he has produced numerous photo essays for public radio's Marketplace. Nearly 200 of Alex' photographs are featured in the Encyclopedia of New York City, published in 2010. Alex was commissioned by Johns Hopkins Hospital to create digital collages which are featured throughout its complex and Baltimore magazine named him the city's best photographer in 2012.

Alex earned his B.A. at Princeton University and his M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has been teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art since 2003, and served as the College's Associate Dean for Design and Media Studies from 2011 to 2018.

Meg Griffiths is an artist, educator, and the Co-Founder of A Yellow Rose Project. Thevwide arc of her work grapples with the various modes of domestic, cultural, and political engagement that structure female experience in the United States. Her inquiries are driven by a desire to capture, develop and share a closer understanding of (self-identifying) female subjects. Each project she creates, whether individual or collaborative, focused on the personal or the collective, are at heart about the intrinsic connection between self and other, between interiority and positionality, as much as kinship and community. Her work has traveled nationally as well ... read more

Meg Griffiths is an artist, educator, and the Co-Founder of A Yellow Rose Project. Thevwide arc of her work grapples with the various modes of domestic, cultural, and political engagement that structure female experience in the United States. Her inquiries are driven by a desire to capture, develop and share a closer understanding of (self-identifying) female subjects. Each project she creates, whether individual or collaborative, focused on the personal or the collective, are at heart about the intrinsic connection between self and other, between interiority and positionality, as much as kinship and community. Her work has traveled nationally as well as internationally and is placed in collections such as Center for Creative Photography, Capital One, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her book projects, both monographs and collaborative projects, have been acquired by various institutions around the country such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Library, Duke University Library, Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Research Institute to name a few. She currently lives in Denton, Texas where she is an Associate Professor of Photography and the Graduate Admissions Coordinator in the Visual Arts Division at Texas Woman's University.

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

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.

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

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 South Central Chapter's Portfolio Throwdown events 2019-2020. He is serving a term on the SPE Board of Directors 2019-2023, and as the Chair of the Board 2021-2023.

Erin Jennings is a Memphis based photographer, filmmaker and educator working in lens-based mediums. Erin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production, a Master of Arts in Political Science (Politics in Film), and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from The University of Memphis. Her photographic work emphasizes and examines representation and the politics of viewing. Jennings' work is exhibited internationally, with a recent feature in The Opera Magazine for Classic and Contemporary Nude Photography. Her scholarly research and publication explores contemporary photographic practice, the state of higher education and resulting labor policies. Jennings has been in a ... read more

Erin Jennings is a Memphis based photographer, filmmaker and educator working in lens-based mediums. Erin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production, a Master of Arts in Political Science (Politics in Film), and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from The University of Memphis. Her photographic work emphasizes and examines representation and the politics of viewing. Jennings' work is exhibited internationally, with a recent feature in The Opera Magazine for Classic and Contemporary Nude Photography. Her scholarly research and publication explores contemporary photographic practice, the state of higher education and resulting labor policies. Jennings has been in a complicated relationship with academia since 2011 and is the founder and co-chair of SPE's Contingent Faculty Caucus. She has been a member of SPE since 2013 and has served on the 2016 South Central Conference Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee (2024 – 2028) and the 2025 National Conference Committee. She currently teaches film history at the University of Memphis and works in non-profit engagement and outreach. 

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

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 for the Santa Maria Valley was published in 2022 by George Thompson Publishing. He resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his daughter, a dog, two cats, and a chinchilla.

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

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 as faculty affiliate with Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, Global Studies, and the Graduate Faculty, and is the founder of a new program in Creative Engagement & Social Change. She is in the final throes of a PhD from the European Graduate School and holds an MFA from Clemson University, an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a BA from the University of Mary Washington, and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Duke University.

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

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 Thailand, Awakening Foundations literary magazine, Poke Artists and Online Social Media at Foto Fest in Houston. Other exhibitions include Extended Family for the School of Art in Collaboration with local high schools at Night Gallery in Tempe, Arizona, and Family Matters at Northlight Gallery on the campus of Arizona State University. She has been a longtime member of SPE and previous Co-Chair of the multi-cultural caucus at SPE. 

Jennifer Ray is an Associate Professor of Photo Media and Associate Director of the School of Art, Design & Creative Industries at Wichita State University in Kansas. She received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and BA from Oberlin College, where she also taught for two years as a visiting professor. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kinsey Institute, and Museo del Barro (Paraguay). Broadly, her work critically investigates American history and contemporary culture, and has been supported ... read more

Jennifer Ray is an Associate Professor of Photo Media and Associate Director of the School of Art, Design & Creative Industries at Wichita State University in Kansas. She received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and BA from Oberlin College, where she also taught for two years as a visiting professor. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kinsey Institute, and Museo del Barro (Paraguay). Broadly, her work critically investigates American history and contemporary culture, and has been supported by residencies at Latitude, ACRE, and Unpack (Havana). Her long-term project Shouting Fire will be published by Push/Pull Editions in 2025. 

At Wichita State, she serves on the Faculty Senate, is a longtime member of a committee awarding internal grant funding, and focuses on DEI-related work on committees in the school and college. This year, she served as a judge for the Scholastics Art Awards and a panelist for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission.

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

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 Businessweek, Marketplace, MAS Context, Real Simple, Places Journal, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. His photographs are collected in the Library of Congress, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Pennsylvania State University Special Collections, the Midwest Photographers Project of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His monograph New Deal Utopias was published in 2017 by Kehrer Verlag. He is an Assistant Professor of Photography in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University.

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

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 for the Arts (NEA), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH), Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism (ACT), Sponsored Project and Research Interdisciplinary Grant (SPaRC), and Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA).

Sung is a Professor at Providence College and was appointed as the founding director of a cutting-edge program in Business and Innovation in 2018.  Currently, he is a member of the WARP Collective Artists Group and serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education.  

DM Witman is a transdisciplinary artist working with photographic media, video, and installation. Her work explores climate disruption and the effects on human and more-than-human species.  She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she serves as the Chair of the Graduate Program and Photography. She received an MFA from Maine Media College and a BS in Environmental Science from Kutztown University. She shares her time between the banks of the St. George River in Maine and the Borderlands of South Texas. Her work has been exhibited extensively, and she is the recipient of grants from ... read more

DM Witman is a transdisciplinary artist working with photographic media, video, and installation. Her work explores climate disruption and the effects on human and more-than-human species.  She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she serves as the Chair of the Graduate Program and Photography. She received an MFA from Maine Media College and a BS in Environmental Science from Kutztown University. She shares her time between the banks of the St. George River in Maine and the Borderlands of South Texas. Her work has been exhibited extensively, and she is the recipient of grants from Maine Arts Commission, The John Anson Kittredge Fund, and The Kindling Fund (a re-grantor for The Warhol Foundation).  Interviews and publications include The Guardian, BBC Culture, WIRED, Boston Globe, and Art New England.

Website: https://www.dmwitman.com/

Instagram: dm_witman