2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Georgia 12
Amanda Breitbach is an artist, educator, and mother. Her creative research focuses on relationships between people and land. Her current project, Oil and Water, examines conflicting interests on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Breitbach grew... read more
Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Georgia 12
Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Athens
Reflecting the Times: Image-Making and Education in the Shadow of Genocide
Stephanie Brown, an Atlanta-based photographer and installation artist, explores identity and culture through her Jamaican heritage and South Florida upbringing. A graduate of SCAD (BFA Photography) and the University of Michigan (MFA Interdisciplinary Art and... read more
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 2:30pm, Atlanta 1
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 9:00am, Georgia 7
Justin A. Carney uses autobiographical photography to question how death and grief affect familial connections--the bonds that keep a family together and cause them to separate, and how grief shapes an individual. Carney creates an... read more
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 9:00am, Atlanta 5
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 2:30pm, Atlanta 4
An Unfixed Pilgrimage: Vulnerability, Kinship & Healing through Collaboration
Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Atlanta 4
Reframing the Lens: Identity, Dialogue, and Digital Pedagogy in the Photography
Angela Kahoali'i Casagrande is a New Mexico-based photographic artist and educator. Her work explores memory, using photography to reveal the seen and unseen. She teaches digital and analog photography, emphasizing storytelling and cultural representation. Casagrande... read more
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 10:00am, Athens
A HUMBLE EPIC: High School students, Alec Soth, and longform photo projects
Jacob Cecil received a BFA in Sculpture in 2006 and MA in Teaching in 2007 from MICA. He teaches at River Hill High School in Maryland where he has been learning along with his students... read more
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 9:00am, Atlanta 5
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 2:30pm, Valdosta
Libraries and Archives: Catalysts or Cloisters for Photographic Education?
Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 10:00am, Agusta
A Participatory Visual Investigation into the Migrant Children in China
Chen Tianqiutao received an MFA in Photography and an MA in Art + Design Education from the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, Chen is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History... read more
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