2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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9:15AM - 9:45AM
Demystifying Generative AI
Jennifer Pfeffer, Lisa Swank - RUSD Family Resource Center (HS Only)
9:45AM - 10:15AM
Leading the Conversation on AI as a Creative Practice
Dirk Dallas - Dean of CAVAD at CBU (HS Only)
10:15AM - 11:15AM
What's New? Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for You and Your students
Colin Smith - Adobe (HS Only)
11:00AM - 4:00PM
Radical Geographies - Curator Walkthrough with Tamara Cedré
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
11:15AM - 12:00AM
Storytelling Through the Lens: Youth Media Education
Steffanie Padilla, Nikolay Maslov, Lindsey Hammel (HS Only)
9:00AM - 9:15PM
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Welcome
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Storytelling Through the Lens: Youth Media Education at UCR ARTS
Steffanie Padilla, Nikolay Maslov, Lindsey Hammel
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Las Fotos Project
Nalani Hernandez Melo
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Framing Our Truths: Storytelling Through Photography with LGBTQ Seniors
Mary-Linn Hughes, Christopher Anthony Velasco
11:00AM - 11:20AM
The Seattle Camera Club: Inclusivity and the Development of Art Photography in the Pacific Northwest
Christian Waguespack
11:20AM - 11:40AM
Fresh Donor
Christopher Velasco
11:40AM - 12:00PM
Building the Hmong Photographic History and Culture Archive
Joel Pickford
9:15AM - 9:45AM
Photo Book Arts: Accordion Structures
Bobby Lee
9:45AM - 10:20AM
Medium Photo
Lanae King
10:20AM - 10:40AM
Print Study for All
Roula Seikaly, David Johnson
10:40AM - 11:00AM
Online Marketing for Photographers
Jon Wollenhaupt
11:00AM - 11:20AM
The Archive as a Photographic Tool
Kayla Holdgreve
11:20AM - 11:40AM
Regarding Land - The Impact of Ecological Ruin in the Inland Empire
C. Matthew Luther
11:40AM - 12:00PM
Penumbra
Marcus Doyle
afternoon
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Lunch
Provided by RUSD CTE, Poly High School Culinary
1:00PM - 1:30PM
Experience & Funding
Ron Kusayanagi (HS Only)
1:30PM - 4:30PM
Breakout Workshops
Canon, Sony, Adobe (HS Only)
4:00PM - 6:00PM
The California Museum of Photography Collection
Alyse Yeargan (SPE West Attendees Only)
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM - 1:30PM
Weegee: Two Truths & A Lie
Jason Tannen
1:30PM - 2:00PM
Pedagogy: The Importance of Analog Practice in the Digital Classroom
Christine Lee Smith
2:00PM - 2:30PM
Unstable Ground: Photography, Memory, and the Construction of Meaning
Nicole White
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Intersections of Art, Science, Archival Research, and Field Studies
Scott Hinton
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Grading for Equity: A Necessary Revolution
Julianne Clark
3:30PM - 4:00PM
The Pleasure of Being Wrong
Andrew K. Thompson
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Where Images Live: Photography, Place, and the Power of Presence
Jennifer Frias, William Camargo, Lorena Molina
4:30PM - 5:00PM
Radical Geographies
Tamara Cedré
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM - 1:30PM
Frames of Dissonance
Christophe Katrib
1:30PM - 2:00PM
7 Pictures Remaining
Meggan Gould
2:00PM - 2:20PM
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Recreating Memory through Imagemaking
Sephine Milan
2:20PM - 2:40PM
Presence: The Shape of Chaos
Mia Zheng
2:40PM - 3:00PM
Beyond Shattered Honor
Maedeh Ojaghloo
3:00PM - 3:30PM
[Placeholder: Swallowtail]
Eliza Gregory
3:30PM - 4:00PM
On Displacement, Histories and Possibilities, Using Photography as a Decolonial Tool
William Camargo
4:00PM - 5:00PM
History is in the Caption
Fariba Hajamadi
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