2019 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Conor Elliott Fitzgerald

Thursday, March 07, 2019 @ 3:30pm, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage

Conor Elliott Fitzgerald's photography and video practice began while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Central America. Making images started out as a way to document his experience, but evolved into a tool for... read more

Nicole R. Fleetwood

Thursday, March 07, 2019 @ 5:30pm, Hope Ballroom

Evening Guest Speaker, Nicole R. Fleetwood

Nicole R. Fleetwood is a professor in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality and Blackness (2011) and On Racial Icons: Blackness and... read more

Hannah Frieser

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 2:45pm, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage 5

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

Amy Giese

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 10:15am, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage 2

Amy Theiss Giese is a Boston based artist and educator whose work is rooted in materialism. She received her MFA in Photography from Parsons and her BA from Amherst College. Giese is currently the Director... read more

Susan kae Grant

Thursday, March 07, 2019 @ 8:30am, Center Street A

Student Seminar, "Strategizing A Career in Photography"

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

Bill Gratton

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 2:45pm, Veterans AB

2018-2019 State of Photographic Education Survey Results

Bill Gratton has more than 25 years in the professional photography industry. His work as a professional photographer combined with his sales and higher education photography experience provides unique perspectives and understanding of the field... read more

Marcella Hackbardt

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 1:30pm, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage 4

Marcella Hackbardt is a professor of studio art at Kenyon College in Ohio. She has curated numerous photography exhibitions including Deep Space and Material Message. Her photographic work explores aspects of knowledge, the environment, and... read more

Patti Hallock

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 11:30am, Veterans AB

"Bring Order to the Chaos: Prints and Editions, Submissions and Self-Promotion, Sales and Expenses"

Saturday, March 09, 2019 @ 9:00am, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage 1

Patti has been teaching photography at the University of CO-Denver since 2008. Her work is represented by Goodwin Fine Art in Denver, CO. Patti was chair of the Southwest Chapter of SPE (2013-2017). She's the... read more

Daesha Harris

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 2:45pm, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage 5

Daesha Devón Harris is a Saratoga Springs, NY native, artist and photographer who plays an active role in her community as a youth advocate, social activist and cultural history preservationist. The gentrification of her hometown... read more

Andrew Hershberger

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 10:15am, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage 2

Photographic historian Andrew E. Hershberger received a 2001 Ph.D. from Princeton. A former Center for Creative Photography Ansel Adams Fellow, and NYU Coleman Dowell Fellow, his publications include a large anthology (86 edited articles) entitled... read more

Nicole Jean Hill

Friday, March 08, 2019 @ 1:30pm, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage 4

Nicole Jean Hill is a professor of art at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, the Australia Centre... read more

Glenna Jennings

Thursday, March 07, 2019 @ 3:30pm, Hope Ballroom

Presentations on Main Stage

Glenna Jennings is an Associate Professor of Photography and Social Practice at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Her community-engaged work focuses on food justice, and her art has been awarded and exhibited throughout North America,... read more