2011 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Hannah Frieser

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 2:00pm, Capitol South

"Curator's Roundtable - Contextualizing the Image"

Hannah Frieser is the Executive Director for the Center for Photography at Woodstock, an arts organization that supports artists through exhibitions, residencies and other opportunities. She has curated exhibitions with leading contemporary photographers. Her essays... read more

Matthew Gamber earned degrees from Bowling Green State University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. He has taught at the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University, College of the Holy Cross,... read more

Erika Gentry

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 9:00am, Atlanta 1&2

"Classroom 2.0: Using Social Media"

Erika Gentry is a multimedia artist and an associate professor at City College of San Francisco. Her work explores issues of identity as expressed through the use of technology. She is on the National Board... read more

Jay Gould

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 10:00am, Capitol Center

"Inarticulate Speech of the Chart: Investigating the Scientific Concept in Photography"

Jay Gould is a faculty member of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Artist in Residence at Johns Hopkins University Extreme Materials Institute and SPE Mid-Atlantic Chair. His work, integrating scientific topics into installation and... read more

Susan kae Grant

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 3:00pm, Atlanta 1&2

"In the Second Life of Avatars and Photographic Education"

Susan kae Grant (MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Cornaro Professor of Art Emerita, (Texas Woman's University) and teaches workshops at: ICP; LACP; La Luz Workshops; and Santa Fe Workshops. She is the 2014 SPE Honored... read more

Carolyn Guertin

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 5:30pm, Capitol Ballroom

Featured Speaker: Carolyn Guertin

Carolyn Guertin is a cyberfeminist, photographer, and digital media scholar who specializes in digital narrative. She holds a dual appointment in new media, as director of the eCreate Lab and assistant professor at the University... read more

Peter HappelChristian

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 10:00am, Capitol Center

"Inarticulate Speech of the Chart: Investigating the Scientific Concept in Photography"

Peter HappelChristian has exhibited his work throughout the United States, and it is included in the permanent collections of the Tucson Museum of Art and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona. He holds a... read more

Judy Herrmann

Thursday, March 10, 2011 @ 3:00pm, Capitol Center

Industry Seminar: "Breaking into the Biz"

Judy Herrmann of Herrmann + Starke, www.HSstudio.com, creates distinctive imagery for advertising, editorial and corporate clients that has won recognition from Graphis, Communication Arts, Lurzer's Archive and numerous award annuals. A past president of... read more

Scott Hilton

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 10:00am, Capitol South

"The Mustard Gas Phantasies of Wilfred Owen-A Photo Opera"

Scott Hilton is currently senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington and an instructor at Collin College in Plano, TX. He received his MFA at California State University Fullerton and his BA at... read more

Robert Hirsch

Thursday, March 10, 2011 @ 1:30pm, Capitol South

Industry Seminar: "A Counterculture of Images"

Robert Hirsch is the author of Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography; Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age; and Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes. He... read more

Douglas Holleley

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 9:00am, Atlanta 4&5

"Creating a Coherent Curriculum"

Douglas Holleley, Ph.D., was born in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Digital Books Design and Publishing. In the last year-and-a-half he has published three books about photographic education under the series title Photo... read more

Amy Holmes George

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 10:00am, Atlanta 4&5

"Tools for Teaching Digital Negatives with Alternative Processes"

Amy Holmes George is a fine art photographer who currently teaches alternative processes at the University of North Texas. George, a beta tester for Precision Digital Negatives, instructed the PDN pilot course in 2005 and... read more