2014 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Haley Morris-Cafiero

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 9:00am, Holiday 4-5

Wait Watchers: A Study of Anonymity in the Public Space and Media

Haley Morris-Cafiero holds a BA in Photography and a BFA in Ceramics from University of North Florida and a MFA in Art from University of Arizona. She is an Assistant Professor, Area Head of Photography... read more

Colleen Mullins

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 3:00pm, Holiday 6

I Am Not A Phoenix: What Traditional Photography Programs Can Learn From the Successes and Failures of For-Profit Colleges

Mullins has garnered multiple McKnight Fellowships, and MN State Arts Board Grants, her work is in numerous public and private collections, and publications include PDN, Saint Lucy, Oxford American, New York Times Lens. She has... read more

Kathryn Myers

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 9:00am, Holiday 4-5

Regarding India, Video Interviews with Contemporary Indian Artists

Kathryn Myers is a painter and professor of art at the University of Connecticut. She received her BA from St. Xavier College in Chicago and MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has... read more

Emily Myerscough

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 1:00pm, Key 3-4

The Mountain is Something More than a Vast Green Expanse

Emily Myerscough is an interdisciplinary artist combining documentary photography, scientific methodologies, and a conceptually-based practice to explore the visual limits of objective reporting. She received a BA in Political Science from New College of Florida... read more

Michael Oliveri

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 1:00pm, Holiday 2-3

Microscopy: Transforming Scientific Data into Visual Metaphors

Michael Oliveri received his MFA in New Genres from UCLA and a BFA in Sculpture at the SFAI. He created the ArtX program at University of Georgia. His work is conceptually based with biological traces... read more

Pablo Ortiz Monasterio

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 9:00am, Holiday 2-3

Conversación: Dialogue at a Distance

Pablo Ortiz Monasterio is a photographer and curator who lives in Mexico City. In 1994, Monasterio founded the Centro de la Imagen, a leading venue for photography education, events, and exhibitions in Mexico. He has... read more

Garth Amundson & Pierre Gour

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 11:00am, Holiday 4-5

"Double-Whammy": More Collaborative Work

Amundson and Gour collaborate to explore the perceptions surrounding the domestic sphere, immigration politics, and identity. They use collage and photo-scanning techniques to speak metaphorically about social and cultural construction. They have exhibited and participated... read more

Richard Renaldi

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 3:00pm, Holiday 2-3

Portraiture and Identity: A Panel Discussion

Born in Chicago in 1968, Richard Renaldi received his BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. Exhibitions of his photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Asia, and... read more

Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 5:30pm, Holiday Ballroom

Saturday Evening Guest Speakers - Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative artist team who work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in both the past and future. The artists have... read more

Don Russell

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 1:00pm, Holiday 2-3

Floating Lab Collective

Don Russell is Cofounder and Executive Director of Provisions Library. Provisions maintains a research library and programming as a special component of George Mason University's School of Art, where Russell serves as research faculty. In... read more

Jacinda Russell

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 1:00pm, Key 3-4

Make, Stamp, Ship, Receive: Four Years with The Postcard Collective

Jacinda Russell works primarily in the mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, and bookmaking. Her artwork has been exhibited at Texas Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Houston Center for Photography, Reed College and the Academy of... read more

Ana Samoylova

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 10:00am, Holiday 1

Command-P: Collaborating with the Internet

Anastasia Samoylova is an artist and educator based in upstate New York. Her work investigates the medium of photography in the context of contemporary visual culture. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and... read more