SPE 2013 National Conference Award Winners

Posted December 10, 2012 in Member News

2013 SPE Honored Educator
We are excited to announce Elaine Mayes as the recipient of the the 2013 Honored Educator Award. SPE received communications in support of her nomination from colleagues, former students, and associates - a true testament to the influence and inspiration she provided over a groundbreaking career of teaching, creating art and exhibiting. Elaine's significant contribution to the field of photographic education and this organization are deeply appreciated. The Honored Educator Award bestows you with a lifetime membership in the Society. The Honored Educator Award ceremony will take place during the national conference on Saturday, March 10, at 5:30 pm.

2013 SPE Imagemaker Award
This award funded through SPE's Awards & Recognition Fund is given to a first-time imagemaker presenter at an SPE national conference with an outstanding proposal. The award consists of a $1,000 cash prize, plus a one-year membership to SPE and a 2013 national conference pass. Congratulations to Dana Fritz, SPE's 2013 Imagemaker Award winner.

2013 Student Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to the 2013 SPE Student Scholarship recipients! Eleven student scholarships will be awarded at the 2013 SPE National Conference. All SPE Student Awards, including the SPE Award for Innovations in Imaging in Honor of Jeannie Pearce, include a $500 travel stipend to attend the 2013 National Conference, a conference fee waiver, and one-year membership to SPE. Scholarship recipients will be honored at the national conference during the Student Awards Ceremony on Saturday, March 9 from 1:00 2:45 pm in the Exhibits Hall Room. This year as a way to highlight the work of award recipients, there will be a poster session directly following the awards ceremony where award winners will showcase their portfolios and share with conference attendees.

Jurors of the 2013 Student Scholarship Awards
Lupita Murillo Tinnen (Chair of the Recognitions and Awards Committee), Sama Alshaibi, Dornith Doherty, and Betsy Schneider

SPE Student Award Winners
Malena Barnhart, Arizona State University, Graduate Student
Clare Benson, University of Arizona, Graduate Student
Anne Brye, Arizona State University, Graduate Student
Marcie Hancock, Savannah College of Art and Design, Undergraduate
Meri Page, Mills College, Graduate Student
Maggie Pinke, Rochester Institute of Technology, Graduate Student
Whitten Sabbatini, Mississippi State University, Undergraduate
Jeremy Underwood, University of Houston, Graduate Student
Keith Yahrling, Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Student
Hyounsang Yoo, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate Student

SPE Award for Innovations in Imaging in Honor of Jeannie Pearce
Malina Chavez, Duke University, Graduate Student

SPE Insight Award
This SPE Insight Award recognizes achievements of significant distinction made by individuals to the photographic education field. Measured from when careers first begin to the time when standing ovations erupt spontaneously in lecture halls, SPE's Insight Award symbolizes the realization of a national or international career or the launching of future endeavors to new challenges, ideas, and horizons. Photographers (in the broadest sense of the word today), as well as scholars, curators, writers, and visionaries-be their achievements rapid fire or accumulated over time-are eligible for the Society's mark of recognition and distinction.

Insight Award recipients demonstrate excellence in two or more of the following ways: innovative teaching; sustained mentoring of colleagues or students; broad contribution to technical, critical, pedagogical, or visual aspects of the field; breadth or depth of exhibition or publication; sustained presence in the field.

The 2013 SPE Insight Award will be presented to Ken Josephson, Nathan Lyons, Elaine Mayes, Jerry Uelsmann, Jack Wilgus and Cheryl Younger as part of the awards ceremony at the national conference on Saturday, March 10, at 5:30 pm.

The SPE Art Sinsabaugh Creative Artist Project Support Grant
Congratulations to Sylvia de Swaan, recipient of the SPE Creative Artist Project Support Grant. Sylvia's poignant work is a sequel to an earlier project of her travels through post communist Eastern Europe exploring themes of personal and collective memory and identity. For this project, she will venture to Czernowitz, the city where she was born, exploring the cultural history of the Jewish community where more than half of its Jews perished by the end of WWII. Sylvia's work will consist of a series of symbolic portraits of the survivors placing them in the context of their past.

SPE conference Award for Excellence in Historical, Critical and Theoretical Writing
The SPE Conference Award for Excellence in Historical, Critical and Theoretical Writing was established in 2007 to honor SPE's former Executive Director, Jennifer Yamashiro. This award seeks to recognize excellence in writing in the field of photography among the Society's members. Finalists are selected from top presentation abstracts accepted to SPE's conference "Lecture" category.

The Writing Award Review Committee is reviewing finalists' essays and will select the winner of the writing award to be announced at the 2013 National Conference. The award carries a cash prize of $1,000 and the winning paper will be considered for publication in a future issue of the Society's journal, exposure.

Related Members: Dana Fritz Elaine Mayes Jerry Uelsmann Cheryl Younger