2010 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Tim Plumer, Jr.

Saturday, March 06, 2010 @ 10:00am, Room 411-412

"Adobe Photoshop Best Practices"

Saturday, March 06, 2010 @ 1:00pm, Room 411-412

"Beyond Photoshop-What Next?"

Tim Plumer, Jr. has been working with and for Adobe since 1998. In his current role as a Senior Solutions Engineer for the Education sales team, he works to place Adobe technologies into the context... read more

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Patricia Russotti

Thursday, March 04, 2010 @ 3:00pm, Salon CD

"Digital Photography Education -- Thinking at the Next Level"

Patricia Russotti is an artist, educator, and international presenter. She is currently a professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. Patti holds... read more

Travis Shaffer, MFA candidate at The University of Kentucky,
has exhibited work in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Lexington,
and Louisville, including solo and two-person exhibitions of his
series "Eleven Mega Churches." He also recently published... read more

Clarissa Sligh is a recipient of the ICP Annual Infinity Award
and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and
the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of nine
artists'... read more

Susan Sponsler-Carstarphen is a Korean adoptee who grew
up on a farm in Iowa. Her artwork has been exhibited in Seoul,
South Korea, the U.S. Embassy in Panama City, New York City,
Los Angeles, Houston... read more

Rae Strozzo is a digital photography instructor at Pima Community
College in Tucson, AZ. He is a transgendered artist and
writer. He received his BA in English and philosophy from Georgia
Southern University and his... read more

Sylvia Sukop is a Los Angeles-based photographer and nonfiction
writer. Awards include PEN Center USA's 2009 Emerging
Voices Fellowship in support of her memoir inspired by photographing
the life and death of her 19-year-old brother.... read more

Dana Sullivan

Thursday, March 04, 2010 @ 4:30pm, Salon AB

"19th Century Photography in the 21st Century"

Bostick & Sullivan has been on the cutting edge of 19th Century photography for 30 years, providing high quality kits,chemicals, and technical support to students, educators and professional photographers. Alternative process photography has never been... read more

Mary Virginia Swanson

Thursday, March 04, 2010 @ 9:00am, Room 411-412

Student Seminar

(Mary Virginia Swanson (MFA, Arizona State University) is an author, educator and advisor who helps artists find the strengths in their work, identify appreciative audiences, and present their work in an informed, professional manner. She... read more

Suzanne Szucs is an artist, writer and educator. For fifteen years
she made a daily Polaroid self-portrait. Approximately 5,500 images,
Journal, In Progress is comprised of unassuming and candid
images presenting a narrative that investigates... read more

Charles Thomas is the education director of The Light Factory
Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film. In his past six
years at TLF, Thomas has expanded the Museum's school programs
to include over 25,000 children... read more