2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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10:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: TBA
SPE Student Volunteer Workshop with Susan Burnstine
8:00AM - 10:00AM
Room Location: TBA
Creating a Sense of Movement: Animating Still Images
Workshop by Teresa Gawrych
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Union Meeting Room #325 (for registration, auction
Registration with Coffee and Donuts
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms
Individual Presentations
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Union Meeting Room #328
"Now what?" The residency experience and life just after the MFA
Presentation by: Sherwin Rivera Tibayan
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"Enriching Communities"
Graduate Student Presentation by: Rebecca J. Hopp - Texas Tech University
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Union Meeting Rooms #329
"Stains, Ashes, and Halos: The Haunting Poetic of Southern Mythology"
Graduate Student Presentation by: Megan Badger - The University of Houston
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Fowlkes Auditorium
"High School Educator and Student Panel Discussion"
Larry Anderson, Andrew Sanders, Mark Geil, and Shanon Randol
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Union Meeting Room #328
"Quarter-Life Crisis"
Image-Maker Presentation by: Erica Botkin - Texas State University / San Marcos
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"Center Space: Analogous Horizons in Disparate Landscapes"
Imagemaker Presentation by: Mark Schoon - University of West Georgia
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Union Meeting Rooms #329
"Jimmy Fike's Photographic Endeavors"
Imagemaker Presentation by: Jim Fike - Estrella Mountain College
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Union Meeting Room #328
"Process, Performance, Needles and Guns"
Imagemaker Presentation by Jes Schrom - Louisiana Tech University
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"Staring at Mom"
Imagemaker Presentation by Alethea Norene Robbins - Art Institute of Pittsburgh
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms #329
"Figures abstracted underwater"
Imagemaker Presentation by Candace Hitt
1:30AM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"Will your work survive for a Retrospective or only a Portfolio"
Kim DuBoise - PhotoArts Imaging Professionals in Hattiesburg Mississippi
1:30AM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms #329
"Grace Between The Lines"
Tatyana Bessmertnaya
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Union Meeting Room #325 (for registration, auction
Registration with Coffee and Donuts
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Briscoe Hall / Printmaking Lab
Mono Printmaking Workshop
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Briscoe Hall / Screenprinting Lab
"Screen Printing Workshop"
Workshop by: Jude Landry - Mississippi State University
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Union Meeting Rooms
Individual Presentations
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Union Meeting Room #328
"The Creative Risk of Self-publishing"
Betty Press - University of Southern Mississippi
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"My Southern Spaces"
Graduate Student Presentation - Andrew Pruett - University of Alabama
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Union Meeting Rooms #329
"Pareldolla: A Photographic Exploration of Multistable Perception"
Kallie Pfeiffer - Trinity University
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Union Meeting Rooms
Panel Presentations
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Union Meeting Room #328
"Family as the Vernacular"
Margaret Hiden, Libby Rowe, University, and H. Jennings Sheffield
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"Swim Don't Sink: An Open Forum of Tips, Strategies and Lessons for Graduate Students Teaching"
Graduate Student Panel: Megan Badger, Stacey Farrell, Elicia Garcia, Stephan Hillerbrand, Katelin Washmon
11:30AM - 12:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms
SPESC Business Meeting
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Stafford Hall - Rooms 220, 100a and 100b
Portfolio Reviews
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Briscoe Hall, Room 215
Student Group Critique with Kelli Connell
afternoon
12:00PM - 1:30PM
McComas Theater
Dornith Doherty - Honored Educator Presentation and Reception
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Briscoe Hall / Printmaking Lab
"Mono Printmaking Workshop"
Workshop by: Linda Seckinger - Mississippi State University
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms
Individual Presentations
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Room #328
"FEAR FACTOR-Assessing the Creative Risk in Art Making -Or How to Dismiss Those Naysayers Who Think You Are A Wackjob Poseur"
Imagemaker Presentation by: Colette Copeland - University of Pennsylvania
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"The Utopian Dilemma: Assembly-Line Anxiety and Post-Consumer Waste"
Imagemaker Presentation by: Mayilyn Waligore - University of Texas at Dallas
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms #329
"Treece, Kansas 66778"
Imagemaker Presentation by: Danea Males and Derek Rankins: Northeast Texas Community College / University of North Texas
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms
Panels Presentations
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Union Meeting Room #328
"Sharing the Risk: Ten Texas Photographers Push Beyond Mainstream Photography"
Antiquarian Avant-Garde Photography: Amy Holmes George, Kathy Lovas, Susan Sponsler, and Loli Kantor
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Creating a Pre-Professional Studio for Photography and Graphic Design Students"
Easton Selby, Scott Mann, Tracy Fish - Coastal Carolina University
4:30PM - 5:30PM
McComas Theater
Keynote: Todd Hido
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Lunch
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Rooms
Individual Presentations
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Union Meeting Room #328
"Forgetting the Rules: Learning by Doing"
D. Bryon Darby - University of Kansas
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Briscoe Hall / Photography Lab
Anthotype Process Workshop
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Briscoe Hall / Photography Lab
"A Way of Making: A Demonstration and Discussion of Techniques in the Anthotype Process"
with Rachel Rushing - University of North Texas
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms
Panel Presentations
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Union Meeting Room #328
"Critically (un)Important: Process and Medium in Contemporary Photography"
Paul Karabinis and Christopher W. Luhar-Trice - University of North Florida
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"Pop up Clubs: Promoting and sustaining interest in photography through clubs"
Graduate Student Panel: Katelin Washmon, Stephan Hillerbrand, and Megan Badger, and Cecilia Anne McCain-Shikle
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms
Individual Presentations
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Union Meeting Room #328
"When You're Out There"
David V. Politzer - University of Houston
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms #330
"The Landscape of Memory: Blending Low Tech and High Tech"
Annette Fournet - Southwest Community College
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Union Meeting Rooms #329
"Carbon Landscape"
Ray Klimek - Ohio University
evening
5:00PM - 9:00PM
Visual Arts Center (walking distance from Comfort
Registration Opens
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Giles Auditorium
Featured Speaker - Susan Burnstine
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Visual Art Center
Welcome Event and Exhibition Reception
"SPE Member's Exhibition and Antiquarian Avant-Garde Photography: Works by the North Texas Alternative Process Group"
5:30PM - 7:30PM
McComas Gallery
Public Reception for Gallery Exhibition & Speakers
5:30PM - 6:30PM
McComas Theater
Featured Speaker - Kelli Connell
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Dinner Break
8:00PM - 11:00PM
Chester House - Downtown Starkville
Jazz Party - SPESC Event
Live Music and Auction Winners announcement.
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