2025 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Trevor Paglen

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 11:00am, Tuscany AB

Photography on the Edge

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.

Paglen's work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Carnegie... read more

Mariette Pathy Allen

Thursday, March 06, 2025 @ 2:00pm, Tuscany D

Fluidity in Focus: Documenting Queer Relationships Through Photography

Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing the transgender community for over 40 years. She has published five books and has exhibited internationally. Her work is in numerous collections including MoMA, the National Gallery of Art,... read more

Richard Pence

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 3:30pm, Tuscany 11

The Living Darkroom: Contemporary Technologies for Traditional Processes

Richard Pence is a third year MFA candidate at Arizona State University. Pence introduces contemporary technologies and pedagogical approaches into both digital and analog photography classrooms, striving to foster well rounded photographers with both a... read more

Stefan Petranek

Thursday, March 06, 2025 @ 3:00pm, Tuscany 12

Finding Comfort in Lament -- Responding to Climate Change through Art

Stefan Petranek (b. 1977) is an Associate Professor of Photography and Intermedia at Herron School of Art & Design. Working with subjects that range from genetics to climate change, his work explores how advances in... read more

Laura Plageman

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 2:30pm, Tuscany 9

Curiosity Amongst the Ruins

Laura Plageman creates photo-based works exploring time, perspective, and environmental change through iterative processes. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, featured in publications, and is included in collections such as LACMA. Plageman holds... read more

B. Proud

Thursday, March 06, 2025 @ 2:00pm, Tuscany D

Fluidity in Focus: Documenting Queer Relationships Through Photography

As a queer artist, B. Proud's work predominantly engages with the myriad injustices faced by the LGBTQ+ community, with a current focus on the transgender experience. Her work is included in many collections, including the... read more

Jose Ramirez

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 10:00am, Tuscany 11

Use of GPT-4 vision to generate GenAI tutors in the context of Art education

Jose Ramirez is an artist, researcher, and Educator interested in how we assimilate the world around us and human communication mechanisms through conceptual portraits and semantic landscapes. He is also interested in using the landscape... read more

Sam Rapien

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 4:30pm, Tuscany D

Towards Ungrading: Early explorations in innovative teaching practices within a broken system of traditional grades

Samuel B. Rapien is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, an award-winning graphic designer, digital mixed media artist, and educational anarchist. His expertise spans graphic design, typography,... read more

Jennifer Ray

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 4:00pm, Tuscany 10

Crabbylegs - A Photogram Illustrated Children's Book

Jennifer Ray's work finds clues in the landscape to examine our values, political structures, and personal motivations. Her photographs are exhibited widely, and a monograph of her project Shouting Fire will be released later this... read more

Carol Record

Thursday, March 06, 2025 @ 2:00pm, Tuscany 7

Level Up Your Lesson Plan with Design Thinking and Game-Based Learning

Carol Record is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator from Alabama. She teaches graphic design and photography online for Upper Iowa University and holds an MFA in Visual Communication Design and a BFA with a... read more

James Reiman

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 9:00am, Tuscany D

The O Word: Creating Online Photography Curriculum & Community

Jim Reiman is a photographer, designer, and educator, with 20 years of professional art and design experience. He holds a BFA from Central Washington University and an MFA from the University of South Florida. Reiman... read more

Tamara Reynolds is a documentary photographer whose unflinching eye considers what it means to be human in today's society. In particular, her work focuses on the lives of those who are usually unseen. She has... read more