Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Stan Strembicki

Friday, October 17, 2014 @ 4:30pm, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room 160

Honored Educator Talk: Stan Strembicki

Stan Strembicki was born in Providence, R.I. in 1952. He attended the University of Rhode Island as a theater student and only took photo as he thought it would be easier than drawing. In this course of this dodge, he met Bart Parker, the photo 1 instructor who would become a life long inspiration, mentor and friend. He transferred to the Art department and received his BFA in Photography and Studio Art in 1975. This turn of events has always reminded Strembicki that at any point in your life, you can meet that one person who can make a pivotal
difference in your career.

In 1975 he moved to Southern California where he attended the California Institute of the Arts and received his MFA in Photography in 1977 where he studied with Jo Ann Callis, Robert Cumming and John Baldessari. In the fall of 1977 he moved back to the Northeast and taught at Southern Conn. State University and the University of New Haven. In 1982 he accepted a position as area head of photography at the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is currently a Professor of Art and Senior Faculty at the School of Art and area coordinator of the photography program where he teaches classes on the undergraduate and graduate level in photography. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Dean of Students in the School of
Art.

Strembicki has served as secretary, treasurer, and chair of the MWSPE, has chaired or co-chaired five
regional SPE conferences. His first SPE National conference was in California at Asilomar in 1978, his first regional was in Boston in 1975. His work is exhibited nationally and is held in diverse museums and collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Joslyn Museum of Art in Omaha, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, The Kinsey Institute and the Harry Ransom Collection in Austin, Texas to mention a few.