Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Thomas Allen

Saturday, October 11, 2014 @ 11:00am, Jenkins Fine Art Center Speight Auditorium

Thomas Allen

Thomas Allen (American, b. 1963) is a full-time artist and illustrator. He earned a BFA from Wayne State University (Detroit) and an MFA from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Allen is represented by FOLEY (New... read more

Steven Benson

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 9:00am, Jenskins Fine Art Lighting Studio

WORKSHOP: What Can Be Done with One Light Source

Steven Benson is a Professor at the SE Center for Photographic Studies
at Daytona State College. He received a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Cranbrook... read more

Shane Booth

Saturday, October 11, 2014 @ 2:00pm, Jenkins Fine Art Center Speight Auditorium

Vulnerabilities Groom

Shane Booth was raised in Nebraska in a small farming community and graduated with a BA in Art from Nebraska Wesleyan University . He then received an MFA in Photography from the Savannah College... read more

Bridget Conn

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 9:00am, Jenkins Fine Art Center Rm 1108 and 1109

WORKSHOP: Mixed Media Photography with Your Morning Cup

Bridget Conn earned her BFA in Photography from Tulane University in 2000, and her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2003, focusing in Photography, Mixed Media, and Installation. Throughout the 2000s she taught at... read more

William Connally

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 10:00am, Mendenhall Student Center Rm 244

Writing in Service of an Image

William Connally received his MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was awarded a 2013-2014 Professional Fellowship in Photography from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,... read more

Donna Cooper Hurt

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 9:00am, Mendenhall Student Center Rm 244

Processing the past as an insider/outsider

Donna Cooper Hurt worked as a documentary and medical photographer before earning an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Donna has received grants from Alternate ROOTS in Atlanta, GA. and the... read more

Marcus DeSieno

Saturday, October 11, 2014 @ 9:30am, Jenkins Fine Art Center Rm 1326

Student Presentation: Parasites- Merging Contemporary Technology with Historic Process

Marcus DeSieno is a lens-based artist from Tampa, Florida whose work is concerned with science and exploration in relation to the history of photography. He received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of... read more

Eliot Dudik

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 2:00pm, Mendenhall Student Center Great Room 1 and 2

Panel: The Portrait as Performance

Eliot Dudik is a photographic artist exploring the connection between culture, landscape, memory, and politics. Deep seated and sustained interest in the history of photography has guided much of his research and practice throughout his... read more

Rod Fincannon

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 10:00am, Mendenhall Student Center Great Room 1 and 2

Boy Scouts and Indians

Rod Fincannon is a photographer and educator currently living in Greenville South Carolina. He teaches photography at the Fine Arts Center, a magnet high school program for the arts in Greenville SC. Rod has also... read more

Taj received his MFA in Photography from UNC-Chapel Hill and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Taj is the author of two books of his own photography, Stone by Stone (Kehrer Verlag, 2011) and Threefold... read more

Amy Friend

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 11:00am, Mendenhall Student Center Rm 244

Amy Friend: Waiting for Magic

Amy Friend grew up on the outskirts of Windsor, Ontario, Canada where the Detroit River meets Lake St.Clair. She studied at OCADU (Toronto) before embarking on intermittent travels through Europe, Morocco, Cuba, and the United... read more

Rheana Gardner

Saturday, October 11, 2014 @ 3:00pm, Jenkins Fine Art Center Speight Auditorium

To Carve & To Crave

Rheana Gardner is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Southern Utah University. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Academy of Art University in 2009, where she graduated with appreciation from... read more