2014 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Blake Turner

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

Floating Lab Collective

Blake Turner is an artist who explores the visual structures of cultural and behavior. He is currently an MFA candidate at The Ohio State University working with new and old technologies to examine the relationship... read more

Gwynneth VanLaven

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

Floating Lab Collective

Gwynneth VanLaven is an artist and educator whose practices include photography, installation, writing, performance, and social engagement. VanLaven's artworks have featured in The Washington Post and Performance Research, and at the Smithsonian Institution and the... read more

Colette Veasey-Cullors

Thursday, March 06, 2014 @ 10:30am, Holiday 4-5

Industry Seminar with Alexander Heilner, Sponsored by MICA

Colette Veasey-Cullors is Associate Dean for Design and Media at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and former Chair of MICA's Undergraduate Photography Program. Her work is included in the 2017 publication "MFON: Women Photographers... read more

Larry Volk

Thursday, March 06, 2014 @ 1:30pm, Holiday 4-5

Industry Seminar with Danielle Currier and Larry Volk, Sponsored by ASMP

Larry Volk is an artist, educator, lecturer and author. His work includes: multimedia, installation, digital composite prints as well as traditional photographic imagery. He is a member-artist of the Bromfield Gallery in Boston and exhibited... read more

Sean Watkins

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

Floating Lab Collective

Sean Watkins received his MFA in Digital Art from George Mason University where he teaches New Media art. Sean also is the School of Art's Technical Director. A member of The Floating Lab Collective, Watkins... read more

Jeff Whetstone

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

Microscopy: Transforming Scientific Data into Visual Metaphors

Jeff Whetstone received a Zoology degree from Duke University in 1990 and his MFA fro Yale in 2000. In 2007 Whetstone was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a body of work entitled, New Wilderness. Whetstone... read more

Chip Williams

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 9:00am, Holiday 1

Teaching Video Production & Narrative in a Still Photography Program

Chip Williams is an assistant professor in the Commercial Photography Program at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Since his arrival at App State in 2011, he's developed a new video curriculum within the photography... read more

Byron Wolfe

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 10:00am, Holiday 6

Twenty Years of Collaboration: Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Byron Wolfe uses photography and other tools and visualizations to reflect on culture, the passage of time, landscape, and the construction of perception. He often collaborates across disciplines. Wolfe is a Professor, Program Director, and... read more

Sue Wrbican

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

Floating Lab Collective

Sue Wrbican is currently the Associate Director of the School of Art at George Mason University. In 2013 she was an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, FL. She has been an active... read more

Patrick Wright

Thursday, March 06, 2014 @ 10:30am, Holiday 4-5

Industry Seminar with Alexander Heilner, Sponsored by MICA

Patrick Wright is Chair of the Film and Video Department at MICA. Patrick has produced and directed films on HIV/AIDS, clergy sexual abuse, and a profile of Ann Coulter, one of the most controversial political... read more