2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Past SPE Annual Conferences
exhibitions
morning
8:00AM - 11:00AM
Bell Desk in Peppermill Main Lobby
Tour the Peppermill's Geothermal Heating Plant
9:00AM - 4:00PM
Instant Analog Pinhole Photography: Expose a Shot and Develop on the Spot!
Pinsta Workshop
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 8
Student Volunteer Training I
9:30AM - 12:00PM
Black Rock Press
Flags of Adaptation: Creating Personal Narratives through Flag Books
Black Rock Press Bookmaking Demo
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Nevada Museum of Art
Special Sneak Peek of Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art + Environment for SPE
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 8
Student Volunteer Training II
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Tuscany 8
Volunteer Exclusive Session
Eric Kunsman and Debe Arlook
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Tuscany 8
Recovery Meeting
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Meet at Registration
Morning Run
7:30AM - 9:00AM
Tuscany C
SPE Breakfast
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Tuscany EF
Exhibits Fair
9:00AM - 4:00PM
Instant Analog Pinhole Photography: Expose a Shot and Develop on the Spot!
Pinsta Workshop
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 7
Nature's Imprint: A Phytogram Workshop
Nicole Croy
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuscany 12
Adapting our Work to a Changing Climate
Dana Fritz, Allison Grant, Terri Warpinski, Beth Johnston
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany D
The O Word: Creating Online Photography Curriculum & Community
James Reiman
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 11
The [Placeholder] Project
Eliza Gregory
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 9
Pride - Caucus Meeting
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany AB
The Future of Film Scanning
AJ Holmes, Negative Supply
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Tuscany 10
Social Collaboration and Material Ecology in the Contemporary Image
Vasudev Vashisht
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 10
It All Goes Dark: Encountering the Supernatural + the Sublime in Silver Gelatin
Nika McKagen
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 11
Embracing Open Educational Resources for Photography Education
Jessica Labatte, Amy Fleming, Larissa Garcia
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany D
"It's hard to stop rebels that time travel"
Raymond Thompson Jr. - Imagemaker Award
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 9
Expected Image: Counter-Mapping the Bureau of Land Management
Aaron Hegert
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany C
Career Mentoring
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuscany 10
To Snare the Sun
Ross Landenberger
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 10
Stoplight Buena Vista
Kenton Bueche
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Tuscany AB
Photography and Haptic Time
Kimberly Juanita Brown, Invited Speaker
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Tuscany 8
Recovery Meeting
7:30AM - 9:00AM
Tuscany C
SPE Breakfast
9:00AM - 4:00PM
Instant Analog Pinhole Photography: Expose a Shot and Develop on the Spot!
Pinsta Workshop
9:00AM - 2:00PM
Tuscany EF
Exhibits Fair
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuscany D
Queer and Trans Collaborations as Methods of Adaptation and Survival
Lorenzo Triburgo, Ace Lehner, Sarah Van Dyck
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 9
"The Very Uncertainty of Photography": A Brief Theoretical History
Andrew Hershberger
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 11
Eddy at New Paltz - co-creating toward regenerative relational culture on campus
Andrea Frank
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 12
500 Unheard Legacies
Rosalba Breazeale and Jessica Begay
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 8
Contingent Caucus - Meeting
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Tuscany 10
Publishing as collective feminist practice
Katharina Bosse
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Tuscany 10
Huq: I Seek No Favor
Ashima Yadava
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 12
Deep Photography and the Politics of Satellite Reconnaissance
Evan Hume
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 10
Japanese Photography: The Influence of Photography Magazine Culture
Ivan Vartanian
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 9
Composit: Creating a Photobook Press in a Curricular Structure
Evan Baden
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany C
Career Mentoring
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 8
Women's Caucus - Meeting
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuscany 11
Use of GPT-4 vision to generate GenAI tutors in the context of Art education
Jose Ramirez
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Tuscany AB
Photography on the Edge
Trevor Paglen, Invited Speaker
afternoon
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 7
Level Up Your Lesson Plan with Design Thinking and Game-Based Learning
Carol Record
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 8
Both Sides of the Table
Debe Arlook and Eric Kunsman
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany D
Fluidity in Focus: Documenting Queer Relationships Through Photography
Jesse Egner, Mariette Pathy Allen, B. Proud
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Tuscany 11
Adapting Lightroom as a Teaching Tool
Christopher Schneberger
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Tuscany 12
Jāḷī– Meshes Of Resistance
Spandita Malik
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Tuscany 9
Speculative Aesthetics
Jeremy Bolen
2:00PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 10
From there to here and never back again
Dillon Bryant
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Tuscany 10
The Overlook
Conner Gordon
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 9
Picturing Democracy: The Photo Postcard
David Freund
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 11
Rethinking the Textbook: A Basic Guide to Photography
Nicole White
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 12
Finding Comfort in Lament -- Responding to Climate Change through Art
Stefan Petranek
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 10
"Blessed are You, God, Who did not make me a woman."
Rivka Gorelick
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 10
I Wasn't Asked
Fatemeh Fani
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany AB
Welcome and Awards Ceremony
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany AB
Midwest - Chapter Meeting
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany D
South Central - Chapter Meeting
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 7
Northwest - Chapter Meeting
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 8
Southeast - Chapter Meeting
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 9
Southwest - Chapter Meeting
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 11
Mid-Atlantic - Chapter Meeting
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 12
Northeast - Chapter Meeting
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 10
West - Chapter Meeting
2:30PM - 6:15PM
Tuscany C
Student Portfolio Reviews
SPONSORED BY SONY
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 9
Curiosity Amongst the Ruins
Melinda Hurst Frye, Eirik Johnson, Laura Plageman
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 12
The Manipulated Image from Edward Curtis to Artificial Intelligence
Carol Schiraldi
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 11
The Future is Here: America's New Religions
Antone Dolezal
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 7
High School Educators Caucus - Meeting
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 8
Short-Term Study Abroad Discussion Group
Nate Larson
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Tuscany 10
Photographs as Thread
Dominique Munoz
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 10
Nosh
Chloe Dichter
3:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany 7
High School Educators Caucus - Workshop
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuscany 12
Motherhood and Artistic Practice
Crystal Tursich, Lali Khalid, Julie Renee Jones
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuscany 8
Adaptation Dialogues
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany 11
The Living Darkroom: Contemporary Technologies for Traditional Processes
Richard Pence
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany D
Staring at the Face of the Sun
Kei Ito
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany AB
Six Steps for Making Perfect Inkjet Prints
Eric Joseph , Freestyle Photographic Supply
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 10
Up at the Lake: A Photographic Journey Through Shay Lake's Legacy
Shannon Smith
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany 10
504-907
Miles Jordan
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany 9
Collaborating with the Undead: Material Expression in Antique Photographic Paper
Teresa Morrison
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany D
Towards Ungrading: Early explorations in innovative teaching practices within a broken system of traditional grades
Derrick Burbul, Sam Rapien
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany 11
Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape
Jamey Stillings
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany 10
Multicultural Caucus - Meeting
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany AB
Elevate Your Portfolio: Expert Printing and Portfolio Reviews with Hahnemühle
Vincent Royer
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 11
Concentric Pedagogy: Queer/Feminist Critique, Active Listening & Third Classroom
Heather O'Brien-Takahashi
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 12
Weft and Void: Material Echoes of Digital Resistance
Mona Bozorgi
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 9
Retrofit: Making Places Into Cameras
Chris Fraser
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany D
Sailing through the Anthropocene
Bill Fox, Mark Klett, Meghann Rieppenhoff
1:30PM - 2:00PM
Tuscany 10
Snapshots of Adaptation: The Photographer in Literary Narratives
Joanna Madloch
2:00PM - 2:30PM
Tuscany 10
Hauntology and the Death of the Future
Savannah Calhoun
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany C
Professional Portfolio Reviews
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 9
American Soil: Ten Japanese American Concentration Camps
Renee Billingslea
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 11
How to Talk about Difficult Photographs
Christine Lee Smith
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Tuscany 10
Contact to Encaustic
Marita Gootee
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany 8
GRIEF: How We Sink
Tesora Garcia, Maggie Flanagan, Elizabeth McGrady
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuscany 10
The vernacular of chronic illness through image making.
C. Matthew Luther
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany D
EDI in The Photographer's Classroom: Equipping Students to Change the Industry
Kristy Boyce, Clay Patrick McBride
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany 9
Shattered Silhouettes: Adaption of Memory and Materiality
Kaitlin Santoro
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany 11
The Visitation
Tamara Reynolds
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuscany 10
This Earthen Door- Emily Dickinson's Herbarium
Leah Sobsey
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Tuscany 10
Crabbylegs - A Photogram Illustrated Children's Book
Jennifer Ray
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuscany AB
SPE Member's Meeting & Closing
evening
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Sierra Arts
SPE Members Exhibition Reception
Co-Hosted by our friends at Sierra Arts Foundation
7:00PM - 9:00PM
University of Nevada Reno
Combined Caucus Exhibition Reception
Hosted by our friends at University of Nevada Reno
5:30PM - 6:00PM
SPE Media Festival Reception
6:00PM - 10:30PM
Tuscany 12
SPE Media Festival Screenings
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Tuscany C
SPE Pride - Portfolio Throwdown!
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Tuscany 9
SPE Education Fair
8:30PM - 11:30PM
Tuscany AB
Portfolio Walkthrough
8:30PM - 10:00PM
Tuscany D
SPE Print Exchange
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Tuscany AB
SPE Raffle
6:00PM - 10:30PM
Tuscany 12
SPE Media Festival Screenings
9:00PM - 11:55PM
The EDGE Nightclub
SPE Dance Party
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