2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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10:00AM - 12:00PM
Volunteer Training Session
8:00AM - 12:00PM
Check-in Table
Registration & Badge Pickup
9:45AM - 10:00AM
Conference Events Resume – Brief Opening Remarks
Camilo Ramirez, SPE Northeast Chair
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Common Places: A photography class where half the students are 18 and half are over 80
Billie Mandle
10:55AM - 11:25AM
Drones and 3D Printers: The New Photographic Research
Eric Zeigler
11:35AM - 12:00PM
SPE Northeast Chapter - Business Meeting
Includes Voting on Chair and Vice-Chair Nominations
afternoon
12:00PM - 4:00PM
Check-in Table
Registration & Badge Pickup
1:45PM - 2:00PM
Conference Events Begin – Brief Opening Remarks
Camilo Ramirez, SPE Northeast Chair
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Pecha Kucha - Imagemaker Presentations
Six Imagemakers kick off the conference with short presentations done in rapid succession: Michael Cardinali, Andrea Frank, Sarah Knobel, Katharine Kreisher, Danielle Owensby, and Nadia Sablin
2:45PM - 3:15PM
Social Networks and the Construction of Identity: Ralph Eugene Meatyard's The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater
Brad Farwell
3:25PM - 3:55PM
Out of Reach
Carolyn Benedict Fraser
4:05PM - 4:20PM
Coffee Break
4:20PM - 4:30PM
Honored Educator Introduction
Zach Stephens & In-Sight Alumni introduce the 2017 SPE-Northeast Honored Educator
4:30PM - 5:30PM
HONORED EDUCATOR: John Willis
Co-Founder of the In-Sight Photography Project and Professor at Marlboro College
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Lunch
A box lunch will be provided with conference registration
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Through a Legal Lens
Sarah MacWright & Jeffrey Smith
1:55PM - 2:25PM
Little Romances
Jordanna Kalman
2:35PM - 4:10PM
118 Elliot
BREAKOUT SESSION - SPE Caucus Meetings
An opportunity for members of SPE's four caucus groups, the Multicultural, the Women's, the LGBTQ, and the Contingent Faculty to meet up locally
2:35PM - 4:10PM
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
BREAKOUT SESSION - In-Sight Exposed at the BMAC
A showcases of work by students in Brattleboro's In-Sight Photography Project at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
2:35PM - 3:25PM
In-Sight Photography Project, 45 Flat St. Suite #1
BREAKOUT SESSION - In-Sight Tour by Sprint Systems
Marlaine Noel, President of Sprint Systems of Photography offers a tour of the facilities at the In-Sight Photography Project with an overview Sprint's origins
3:20PM - 4:10PM
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
BREAKOUT SESSION - Joan O'Beirne: The Scarf at the BMAC
Joan O'Berine speaks at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center about her current exhibition
4:20PM - 4:50PM
Shark Tank: Photography Book Edition
Colleen Mullins & Bruce Myren
evening
5:30PM - 8:00PM
Vermont Center for Photography
OPENING RECEPTION: In-Sight Photography Project Benefit
In-Sight's19th Annual Exhibition and Benefit Auction at the VCP
5:00PM - 6:00PM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Hannah Frieser
Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock
6:30PM - 9:00PM
118 Elliot
OPENING RECEPTION: Is Photography Enough?
Exhibition Juried by Joshua Farr, Director of the VCP
6:30PM - 9:00PM
118 Elliot
PORTFOLIO SHARING EVENT
Conference attendees are invited to share their work during this informal portfolio sharing opportunity.
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