2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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9:00AM - 9:50AM
Caprice 1
Get the Show on the Road! Tips for Creating and Booking Traveling Exhibitions
9:00AM - 9:50AM
Caprice 2
Alternative Approaches through Socially Engaged Photography
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Caprice 2
Preparing A Teaching Dossier - Professional Development Workshop
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Caprice 2
Curating the Record: Feminist and Liberatory Pedagogies in Student Professional Development
10:00AM - 10:50AM
Pavilion
Conversations with an Alchemist on Photography, Light, and Magic
11:00AM - 11:50AM
Caprice 1
City of Incurable Women
11:00AM - 11:50AM
Caprice 2
Enfleurage: Capturing the exhalations of my body and its labor
11:00AM - 11:50AM
Pavilion
The Death of You and Me: When Words Go Missing
9:00AM - 4:30PM
Rookwood
Exhibitors Fair
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Caprice 2
Women's Caucus Meeting
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Pavilion
PRIDE Caucus Meeting
9:30AM - 3:40PM
Rookwood
Student Portfolio Reviews
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Caprice 1
Projected Mystique
10:00AM - 10:50AM
Caprice 2
Weegee: Two Truths & a Lie
10:00AM - 10:50AM
Pavilion
Negotiating With a Ghost
11:00AM - 11:50AM
Pavilion
World Record: 2022 FotoFocus Biennial Exhibitions Panel
11:00AM - 11:50AM
Caprice 2
Cyber Fantasy
afternoon
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Lunch Break
1:15PM - 2:05PM
Caprice 1
In Conversation: Rural Gallery | Urban Artists
1:15PM - 2:05PM
Caprice 2
Would You Lie With Me
1:15PM - 2:05PM
Pavilion
Birds
2:15PM - 3:05PM
Caprice 1
Landfill: Elegy for the Santa Maria Valley
2:15PM - 3:05PM
Caprice 2
Getting to Know You: Creating A Contemporary Corredo in the Midwest
2:15PM - 3:05PM
Pavilion
Film Screening- Patrick Nagatani: Living in the Story
3:30PM - 4:20PM
Caprice 1
Cherished Illegibility: Anti-Ableist Teaching Strategies and Disability Life Photography
3:30PM - 4:20PM
Caprice 2
Alternate Realities: Worldbuilding in New Media
3:30PM - 4:20PM
Pavilion
WE, the Women's Caucus Exhibition presents Searching For Life: Re-growth & Display - Panel Discussion
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Lunch Break
1:00PM - 1:50PM
Caprice 1
Let it be Lit: A flash first approach
1:00PM - 1:50PM
Caprice 2
Shouting Fire
1:00PM - 1:50PM
Pavilion
Sheryl
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Pavilion
Midwest Chapter Meeting
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Contemporary Art Center
Curatorial tour of Baseera Khan: Weight on History and Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s
evening
5:00PM - 6:30PM
University of Cincinnati Reed Gallery
New Tides, SPE Student Exhibition Opening Reception and Walkthrough
6:30PM - 7:30PM
University of Cincinnati, Aronoff 4400
Gina Osterloh
8:00PM - 9:30PM
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Pavillion
Portfolio Walkthrough
5:00PM - 6:15PM
Xavier University, Kennedy Auditorium
Zora J Murff
The Death of Money B. Greene
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Xavier University Art Gallery, A.B. Cohen Center
SEARCHING FOR LIFE: RE-GROWTH & DISPLAY SPE Women's Caucus Exhibition
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Wavepool Gallery
PHOTOGRAPHY AND TENDERNESS
7:30PM - 9:00PM
CampSITE Sculpture Park, Camp Washington
LIZ ROBERTS: POST BLONDE
8:00PM - 12:00AM
Rookwood
Dance Party
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