2010 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Sara Angelucci is a photo/video artist living in Toronto, Canada.
Angelucci has exhibited photographs across Canada and videos
nationally and internationally. Her work has been supported
by various Canadian public funders and included in numerousread more

Bennie Flores Ansell

Friday, March 05, 2010 @ 1:00pm, Salon F

"A Shadow, A Trace, Impossible Is Nothing"

Bennie Flores Ansell is a Houston based visual artist. Flores Ansell is currently a Professor in the Art Department of the Houston Community College. She completed her MFA in Photography at the University of... read more

Don Gregorio Antón is a Chicano artist/educator who serves
as a professor of art at Humboldt State University. He received
the Excellence in Photographic Education – Teacher of the
Year in 2002 from the Center... read more

Tom P. Ashe

Thursday, March 04, 2010 @ 12:00pm, Salon AB

"Digital Color Management in Contemporary Photography"

Tom P. Ashe is a photographer, consultant, adjunct professor and Associate Chair of the Master of Digital Photography program at the School of the Visual Arts. He received his BS from RIT and his MS... read more

Michelle Bates

Thursday, March 04, 2010 @ 10:30am, Salon AB

"Toying with Creativity: The Joys & Frustrations of Plastic Cameras"

Michelle Bates is acknowledged as "the fairy godmother of the Holga" by Shutterbug Magazine, which also called her book, Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, "the definitive book on the subject." Michelle has been speaking and... read more

An internationally exhibiting artist, Tulu Bayar is an associate professor at Bucknell University. Currently her work is in a traveling exhibition across the U.S. until 2012. Most notable artist-in-residency grants she received are from the... read more

Dawoud Bey

Saturday, March 06, 2010 @ 7:00pm, Salon EF

"Beyond Diversity and Toward Inclusivity"

Dawoud Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, "Harlem, USA," that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He... read more

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal, a professor at Tisch School of the Arts,
New York University, has been recognized worldwide for his
interactive and dynamic Internet encounters that explore conflict
and provoke dialogue. His installation Domestic... read more

Since 1973, Gay Block has interviewed and photographed
people in order to uncover the value systems possible in human
behavior. "I needed to know others to figure out who I could
become." Books include Rescuers:... read more

Donald E. Camp, Artist in Residence at Ursinus College, is the
subject of an American Artist Oral History at the Smithsonian
Institute and has received fellowships from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National... read more

Susan Carr

Thursday, March 04, 2010 @ 12:00pm, Salon CD

"What Every Photographer Should Know About Copyright"

Susan Carr is a Chicago-based photographer and has been in business for over twenty years. Her photographs are included in corporate and private collections, most notably the Pfizer Corporation and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.... read more

Cybèle Clark-Mendes has exhibited work both nationally and
internationally, including group shows and video screenings, at
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia, at Gallery
825 in Los Angeles, California as well as FLATFILEgalleriesread more