2026 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Paolo Morales

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 3:30pm, Georgia 6

Exploring Racialization of Photographs through Encounters as an Asian-American

Paolo Morales received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is an Assistant Professor of Practice at Moravian University. He was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and an artist-in-residence... read more

Keely Morgan

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 9:30am, Atlanta 1

We Wanted a Matriarchy

Keeley Morgan is an interdisciplinary artist from Houston, Texas, pursuing an MFA in Photography at the University of Arkansas. Her work explores intimacy, age, and home and has been exhibited at various venues across the... read more

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Heather O'Brien-Takahashi

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 4:00pm, Atlanta 2

Water is Never Still: Ruminations on water politics & poetics in Lebanon

Heather M. O'Brien - Takahashi is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and Assistant Professor of Cinema & Interdisciplinary Media at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She received an MFA from CalArts and a Director's Fellowship from the... read more

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Vesna Pavlovic

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 3:00pm, Agusta

Woven Wind

Vesna Pavlovic, from Belgrade, Serbia, holds the assistant professor of art position at Vanderbilt University. She has exhibited widely, with numerous solo and exhibitions. Her exhibition Vesna Pavlovic: Projected Histories will be presented at the... read more

Michèle Pearson Clarke Pearson Clarke

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 10:00am, Valdosta

A Welcome Weight on My Body: Affect, Black Visuality and Analogue Photography

Michèle Pearson Clarke is a Trinidad-born visual artist working primarily in video and photography. Clarke served as the second Photo Laureate for the City of Toronto (2019-2022), and she holds an MFA in Documentary Media... read more

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Alice Proujansky

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Atlanta 1

Looking Together: Aperture On Sight Curriculum

Alice Proujansky is a photographer looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity.

Her book, "Hard Times are Fighting Times," available from Gnomic Book, is a project about the legacy of radical activism... read more

Kanishka Puri

Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 9:00am, Atlanta 1

Interspecies Collaboration - A case for an ecological feminist future

Kanishka is an NYC-based artist and writer, who works with non-human biological systems to further her research in eco-feminist futures. By proposing radical solidarities with her ecological allies and asserting the position of women as... read more

Jordan Putt

Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 3:30pm, Valdosta

The Blue of Distance

Jordan Putt is an artist whose work responds to issues of place, identity, and community. His work has been exhibited in the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson; and Filter Space, Chicago; among others. Jordan... read more