SPE Events

July 13th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

Grad Night II

Tere García, Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos, Steven Baboun | Exploring identity of place: Haiti, Peru, US/Mexico Border

Join us for an evening of presentations by three graduate students exploring the sense of place, culture and identity. Each student will share a 20-minute presentation, followed by a shared Q&A session at the end. Steven Baboun is a lens-based artist from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and based...

July 31st, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 3:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

SPE PORTFOLIO THROWDOWN

Join us for an informal portfolio sharing session! Register, bring your work in digital format, and share with your peers in small breakout rooms. One of the most productive parts of our Annual and Chapter Conferences is the collegial portfolio sharing and conversation that happens...

August 10th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley: The Naked Truth

The Naked Truth is a new collaborative project by Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley, set in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This project combines creative and performative photographs in close dialogue with a historical archive, resurrecting the period of the Great Depression when the Victorian era Crescent...

August 28th, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

Resilience-Based Teaching in a Colonial Education System: Wendel White, Tarrah Krajnak, Lorena Molina, Emily Hanako Momohara

What does decolonization look like in your classroom and how does one go about it? Emily Hanako Momohara, Wendel White, Tarrah Krajnak and Lorena Guadalupe Molina will discuss the fundamentals of colonized curriculum, amplification of white culture, and patriarchal classroom structures to give examples for...

September 07th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

Noelle Mason: X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility

Translating images from near-instantaneous creations to installations, sculptures, drawings, alternative process photographs or hand-made embroideries and weavings, Mason's work alters the physical and psychological space between viewer and document. Infusing the hand-made onto images generated by machine-vision serves to question the authoritative aesthetic of surveillance...

October 12th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

Lisa McCarty: Creating Change from within: Building and Discovering a Diverse Archive of Documentary Arts

Using the Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts as a case study, this presentation will examine strategies that can be applied within the structure of an existing photo archives in order to develop diverse and inclusive photography collections.

October 30th, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

SPE PORTFOLIO THROWDOWN

Join fellow SPE members for an informal portfolio sharing session. Bring your work in a digital format, ready to share in small breakout rooms. Receive feedback and engage in conversations with peers in the field.

November 09th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

Alexis Childress: The Tekhnologia of Blackness

Inspired by Afrofuturism, Alexis Childress' work manifests as visual interpretations of her experiences growing up as a Black woman in the rural Midwest, confronted with racial tensions and generational oppression; using technology to examine race, culture, social transition, and self-identity.