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Upcoming Conference

2025 SPE West Chapter Conference

UCR ARTS California Museum of Photography

UCR ARTS - Riverside, California   |   November 06 - November 08, 2025

Mark your calendars for November 6-8, 2025! Join us at the California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS in Riverside, California, for the 2025 SPE West Chapter Conference. 

Tentative Schedule:

Thursday, November 6th, 2025:
High School Educators Programming 

  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Presentations, workshops, and hands-on learning sessions designed specifically for high school educators
  • Focus: Partnering with educational vendors and CTE programs to enhance high school photography education
  • Host & Site: Riverside Unified School District - 4011 14th St. Riverside, CA 92501

Thursday, November 6th, 2025:

  • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Opening Reception at UCR ARTS California Museum of Photography, featuring the SPE West Members Exhibition in the f-stop pedestrian gallery

Friday, November 7th, 2025:
Pedagogy for Educators

  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Program presentations, pedagogical strategies, and practices with a focus on pragmatic scholarship
  • Student Portfolio Reviews, California Museum of Photography Archives

Saturday, November 8th, 2025:
Imagemaker and Research Presentations for Educators and Students

  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Presentations, workshops, hands-on learning, keynote speaker

We welcome submissions of photographic work, pedagogy, research, and imagemaker presentations. Please submit your entries.

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Join SPE for an online conversation between artists Emma Nishimura, Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, and Tulu Bayar, exploring how their practices intersect through themes of migration, navigation, memory, and transformation. Through varied approaches—spanning printmaking, photography, installation, book arts, and participatory projects—these artists share a deep engagement with non-traditional image-making and multidisciplinary methods that reimagine how histories, geographies, and identities are visualized.

This dialog offers an intimate yet expansive look at how lens-based media can both preserve and deconstruct memory, allowing viewers to navigate identities shaped by movement, trauma, and resilience. In engaging with each other's work, the artists invite audiences to reconsider the role of images not just as records of the past but as evolving, tactile spaces where personal and collective histories converge.

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Join SPE for an online conversation between artists Emma Nishimura, Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, and Tulu Bayar, exploring how their practices intersect through themes of migration, navigation, memory, and transformation. Through varied approaches—spanning printmaking, photography, installation, book arts, and participatory projects—these artists share a deep engagement with non-traditional image-making and multidisciplinary...

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