2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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Past SPE Annual Conferences
exhibitions
morning
8:30AM - 7:00PM
Registration Bays
Registration
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Crystal Room
2013 Student Seminar: A LIFE IN ART: THE REALITIES AND THE ECONOMY
With Mary Virginia Swanson and Susan kae Grant
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Price Room
Regional Affairs Committee Meeting
*SPE Business Meeting
10:30AM - 11:45AM
Red Lacquer
Industry Seminar with Joshua M. Fischer, sponsored by MAC Group
"Understanding the Color Managed Workflow"
10:30AM - 11:45AM
State Ballroom
Industry Seminar with Joe Lavine and Ted Waitt, sponsored by Peachpit
"Trends and Tools in Photographic Education, Where Photographic Education is now and where it's Heading"
8:00AM - 5:30PM
Registration Bays
Registration
8:30AM - 3:00PM
Salon 1
Check-In for Student Portfolio Critiques
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Salon 4-9
Student Portfolio Critiques
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Empire Room
David N Martin with Jess T Dugan, Logan Rollins & Rafael Soldi:
"Queer photography: An open and inclusive panel discussion on queer art in schools, studios, galleries, and beyond"
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Crystal Room
Adobe Demo Session: "Unleash the Capabilities of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Develop Module"
with Julieanne Kost
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Red Lacquer
Dana Fritz: "Terraria Gigantica: the World Under Glass"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
State Ballroom
Nigel Poor with Doug Dertinger: "Photography at San Quentin Prison"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Honore Ballroom
Mona Kasra: "The Emergent Image: Toward Collective Witnessing & Action"
10:00AM - 5:00PM
Exhibits Hall
Exhibits Fair
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Red Lacquer
Invited Speaker - Mona Kuhn
"Mona Kuhn: Embracing the Body"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
State Ballroom
Carol Golemboski: "That Old Black and White Magic"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Honore Ballroom
Bill Gaskins: "Learning About Learning: Solving The Course Evaluation Problem"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Exhibits Hall Room
Michael Marshall: "Photography and Civic Engagement Through Service-Learning: An Enhanced Curriculum"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Honore Ballroom
Northeast Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Red Lacquer
Midwest Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Empire Room
Southeast Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Crystal Room
South Central Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
State Ballroom
West Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon 2
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Chicago Room
Southwest Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Exhibits Hall Room
Northwest Regional Meeting
8:00AM - 8:45AM
Chicago Room
Saturday Women's Caucus Meeting
8:30AM - 5:30PM
Registration Bays
Registration
8:30AM - 3:00PM
Salon 1
Check-In for Professional Portfolio Reviews
9:00AM - 4:30PM
Exhibits Hall
Exhibits Fair
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Salon 4-9
Professional Portfolio Reviews
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Exhibits Hall Room
Industry & Education Forum
"Managing Expectations"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Chicago Room
Saturday LGBTQ Caucus Meeting
10:00AM - 11:45PM
Empire Room
Stacey E Schultz with Jamianessa Davis, Staci Gem Scheiwiller & Alexey Ulko:
"Photohistory Networks: Globalizing Photohistorical Narratives"
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Crystal Room
Adobe Demo Session: "Photoshop Adobe Camera Raw and Smart Objects and Smart Filters"
with Julieanne Kost
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Red Lacquer
MK Foltz: "FULBRIGHT: A prestigious yet attainable award: What it's really like to get a Fulbright: Getting them, performing them, and serving as a panelist"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
State Ballroom
Steven Skopik: "Significant Insignificance-Banality in Contemporary Photography"
10:00AM - 10:20AM
Honore Ballroom
Jess T. Dugan: "Every Breath We Drew"
10:25AM - 10:45AM
Honore Ballroom
Daniel Leivick: "Heliopolis"
10:50AM - 11:10AM
Honore Ballroom
Jeffrey Opp: "The Photographic Book as an Instrument for Change"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
State Ballroom
Sonja Thomsen: "Image, Object, Experience: Shifting the Frame"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Exhibits Hall Room
Industry Demo Session with Daniel Milnor, Sponsored by Blurb Inc.
"Beyond the Book"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Red Lacquer
Invited Speaker - Olivia Parker
"The Eye's Mind"
11:15AM - 11:35AM
Honore Ballroom
Jacquelyn Sparks: "Seeking John Mix Stanley"
11:40AM - 12:00PM
Honore Ballroom
Adam Abel: "Palestine Interrupted"
afternoon
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Student Volunteer Training 1
12:00PM - 1:15PM
State Ballroom
Industry Seminar with Peter Krogh, Sponsored by ASMP
"Keeping Up with Technology"
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Red Lacquer
Industry Seminar with Victor Ha, Sponsored by MAC Group
"Creating and Improving your HDSLR Video"
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Red Lacquer
Industry Seminar with Richard Newman, Sponsored by Calumet Photographic
"Video Boot Camp"
1:30PM - 2:45PM
State Ballroom
Industry Seminar with Gail Mooney, Sponsored by ASMP
"The Business of Video"
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Salon 2
LGBTQ Caucus Meeting
3:00PM - 4:15PM
State Ballroom
Industry Seminar with Richard Kelly, Sponsored by ASMP
"The Evolution of Your Creative Rights"
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Red Lacquer
Industry Seminar with David McLain, Sponsored by Sony Electronics
"Understanding Opportunities for Photographers as Stills and Video Converge: A Case Study"
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Salon 2
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Salon 2
Women's Caucus Meeting
4:30PM - 5:45PM
State Ballroom
Industry Seminar with Judy Hermann, Sponsored by ASMP
"New Markets in Photography"
4:30PM - 5:45PM
Red Lacquer
Industry Seminar with Jill Enfield, Sponsored by Focal Press
"Alternative Photography and How It Relates to the Digital Age"
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Chicago Room
SPE Members Meeting & New Member Orientation
12:00PM - 12:45PM
Crystal Room
Friday Multicultural Caucus Meeting
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Empire Room
Ann Kaplan with Katharine Kreisher, Patricia Lois Nuss, Laurie Schorr, Marcia Vaitsman:
"The Feedback Loop of Contemporary Feminisms: Teaching, Learning, and Making"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Honore Ballroom
Terri Warpinski: "Surface Tension"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
State Ballroom
David Emitt Adams: "Conversations with History"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Exhibits Hall Room
Garin Horner: "The Hybrid Photo Classroom: Integrating Web Resources, Teamwork, & Competition into a Learning Experience Where Everyone Wins"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Red Lacquer
Cass Fey with Leslie Squyres: "Garry Winogrand: Archive and Legacy"
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Crystal Room
Adobe Demo Session: "Julieanne's Favorite Lightroom Tips, Tricks and Techniques"
with Julieanne Kost
2:00PM - 2:45PM
State Ballroom
Angela Kelly: "Lament"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Exhibits Hall Room
Leslie K. Brown: "A Field Guide to the Kodak Picture Spot"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Red Lacquer
Mary Goodwin: "Minor White and the Silence of Seeing: Concentration and Significance"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Honore Ballroom
Muriel Hasbun: "Conferring Significance Across Borders: Photographic Education in a Transnational Context"
3:00PM - 4:45PM
Empire Room
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew with Anna Fox, Nicolas Grandi, Peter Sramek, Mara Trachtenberg & Juha Suonpaa
"Virtual and International Cultural Collaborations"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Honore Ballroom
"Richard Renaldi: Crossing from Safety"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Red Lacquer
Tricia Buchhorn with Libby Rowe & H. Jennings Sheffield:
"Don't Drink the Fixer: Teaching Fine Art Photography to an Educationally Under-Prepared Population"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
State Ballroom
Kate Palmer Albers: "Abundant Images"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Exhibits Hall Room
Invited Speaker - John Upton
"The Golden Decade: The Students of Ansel Adams, Minor White and Edward Weston at the California School of Fine Arts"
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Honore Ballroom
Emily Hanako Momohara: "Islands: Isolation, Exoticism and Paradise"
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Exhibits Hall Room
Philip Zimmermann: "Teaching a Photo-bookwork Studio Class Using the History of both the Artists' Photobook and the Use of Visual Narrative"
4:00PM - 4:45PM
State Ballroom
Darlene Kaczmarczyk wtih Jennifer Steensma Hoag: "Automatic Photographers: They've Pushed the Button; it's Time to Learn the Rest"
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Red Lacquer
John Aasp: "Shutters Open: The Gesture of Photography"
12:15PM - 12:45PM
Exhibits Hall
Silent Auction Closing
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Empire Room
Coriana Close with River Bullock, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, Cat Marino:
"Rethinking Museum and Classroom Education for the 21st Century"
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Exhibits Hall Room
Student Awards Presentation & Poster Session
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Crystal Room
Adobe Demo Session: "The Powerful Duo-- Compositing and Video Editing in Photoshop"
with Julieanne Kost
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Honore Ballroom
Hillerbrand + Magsamen: "Suburban Fluxas: The art of contemporary self-portraiture"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
State Ballroom
Rafael Soldi with Jessica Emily Marx & Elle Perez:
"The Wilgus Gallery: Empowering Students And Fostering Engagement Outside of the Classroom"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Red Lacquer
Julia Bradshaw: "Inflection Points: Photography and the Post-Medium Condition"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Honore Ballroom
Amy Theiss Giese: "Shadows Stilled, Seized, Lost"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
State Ballroom
Kim Snyder with Jennifer Brandon & Doug Highland:
"Teaching Beyond the Classroom: Using Blogs to Engage Students"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Red Lacquer
Judy Natal: "Photography That Thinks, Acts, and Sees: Social Engagement and the Shifting Sands of Contemporary Photographic Practice"
3:15PM - 4:00PM
Exhibits Hall
Raffle Drawing
evening
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Student Volunteer Training 2
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Grand Ballroom
Thursday Keynote Speaker - Martin Parr
"Photobiography"
8:30PM - 10:00PM
Red Lacquer
Opening Night Welcome Reception & 50th Anniversary Celebration
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Grand Ballroom
Friday Keynote Speaker - Richard Misrach
"Petrochemical America, A Museum of Entropy, On The Beach 2.0 and an i-phone novel"
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Chicago Room
RIT Reunion
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Wilson Room
IU / Reg Heron Reunion
8:30PM - 11:00PM
Third Floor Salons
Curator Portfolio Walkthrough
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Grand Ballroom
Saturday Keynote Speaker - Zwelethu Mthethwa
"Who is Watching?"
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Grand Ballroom
2013 Honored Educator Ceremony: Elaine Mayes
10:30PM - 1:30PM
Red Lacquer
SPE Dance Party
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