2018 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Toni Pepe

Saturday, March 03, 2018 @ 2:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon G

"Artist/Mother: The Maternal Experience as a Creative Catalyst"

Toni Pepe is chair and assistant professor of photography at Boston University. She received her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MLA in visual culture from Boston University. Her photographs and installation work address the construction of identity through narrative, gender, and memory. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally including the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Germany's Wege durch das Land, Music & Literary Festival. Pepe was a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, a Critical Mass top 50, a Review Santa Fe 100, and the recipient of SPE's Future Focus Project Support Grant. Her work is in the permanent collections at the Danforth Art Museum, the Magenta Foundation, as well as many private collections.