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2530 Superior Ave., #403 Cleveland, OH 44114 Atmospheres: www.spenational.org Climate, Equity and Community in Photography HOST INSTITUTION 52nd SPE National Conference March 12-15, 2015 – Hyatt Regency New Orleans Table of Contents 2 Welcome from the Conference Chair 3 Welcome from the Host Institution 4 Sponsors GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS Foldout Conference Schedule 5 Hotel Floor Plan PRESENTATION SCHEDULE & DETAILS 6 Thursday Sessions 9 Friday Sessions 14 Saturday Sessions 19 Presenter Bios & Index Department SPECIAL EVENTS of Photography 26 Daily Special Events Schedule 27 Silent Auction & Raffle 28 Film Festival 32 Book Signing Schedule EXHIBITS FAIR 33 Exhibits Fair Floor Plan & Exhibitor List 34 Sponsor & Exhibitor Contact Information PORTFOLIO CRITIQUES & REVIEWS 37 Portfolio Critiques & Reviews Information 38 Portfolio Reviewers’ Bios and Preferences SILVER LEVEL SPONSORS APPLAUSE 46 Awards & Recognitions 48 SPE Board of Directors, Staff, & Committees 49 Donors GENERAL INFORMATION 50 Map of New Orleans 51 Gallery & Museum Guide 52 Dining & Entertainment Guide 68 2016 Conference Description & Proposal Information INNOVA MORE THAN PAPER SPE HAS GONE MOBILE! Download "Guidebook" on your iPhone/Android Cover Image: “Oil and Water, Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating device and scan the QR code or use the redemption Nature,” Cartography: Jakob Rosenzweig; Artwork: Jacqueline Bishop, from Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, by Rebecca code: SPENola to get connected! There you Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker will find all of the information found in our Program Guide Design: Nina Barcellona Kidd Conference Program Guide with added features Program Guide Editors: Nina Barcellona Kidd, Ginenne Clark, and Caitie Moore like personalized schedules and interactive maps to ensure you don’t miss a beat. From The Conference Chair Welcome to New Orleans and the 52nd Annual SPE National Conference “Atmospheres: Climate, Equity and Community in Photography.” New Orleans’ vibrant photography community has welcomed us with open arms into their city—the only city in America that can boast its own architecture, its own music, its own set of cultures and subcultures, and its own cuisine. By the middle of the 19th century, French-speaking Catholics and English-speaking Protestants, slaves and free people of color, Africans and people of mixed race, Albanians, Swedes, Germans, and Irish all called New Orleans home. Perhaps it’s that gumbo of ethnicities and cultures that has kept this city and its inhabitants resilient, continuing to thrive and embrace (albeit sometimes with difficulty) community and diversity even after the devastating effects of a set of atmospheric conditions, both natural and man-made, that resulted in the 2005s Hurricane Katrina disaster. As the world’s most democratic and prolific visual medium, the spiral of photographs all around us creates its own set of atmospheres. Photographers describe and comment on issues of equity, community, and environment, sharing their personal view of the world. These ideas, along with theories about teaching and learning, and the atmosphere we create in our classrooms have fed this conference’s theme and its varied presentations. I’m especially excited about the invited speakers who will help us consider these ideas. Rebecca Solnit will reflect on her work with maps, photographs, and writing, looking at the ways we describe place and addressing the frictions between generalizations and specific data. Chris Jordan will take us on a visual journey into our culture of mass consumption, exploring the magnitude of our wants and needs. Hank Willis Thomas, who uses photographic imagery to address issues of race and identity through the vernacular of advertising and popular culture, will discuss how photography informs his work. As we planned this conference, we noted a tremendous synergy in the small but mighty photographic community here in New Orleans. Thinking that this kind of creative sharing could have great lessons for our membership in their own regions, we’ve invited a panel of local photography movers and shakers to speak and share their experiences of building community through collaboration. In addition to our invited guests, we have a remarkable program of general session speakers. Thanks to the Peer Review Committee for the many hours spent reviewing and evaluating a huge number of proposals submitted by our membership. My National Conference Committee of Stephen Marc, Colleen Mullins, and Lupita Murillo Tinnen provided further vetting and invaluable advice, feedback, and support. The Local Committee of AnnieLaurie Erickson, Jonathan Traviesa, Sophie Lvoff, and Chair Sesthasak Boonchai helped with everything from organizing shipments of materials for the conference to giving us great recommendations to help you find the best things to do, see, eat, and more during your time in New Orleans. No SPE conference could occur without the Society’s amazing national office staff. Led by our skilled Executive Director Virginia Morrison and our energetic Events Coordinator Ginenne Clark, staffers Nina Barcellona Kidd, Kayla Milligan, Caitie Moore, and Carla Kurtz work tirelessly, tending to each and every detail with great precision and care. We all owe them a huge round of applause...and a cold drink, too. Lastly, I must thank our sponsors. Their devotion to SPE’s mission and to photographic education in general is evident in their generous support of this conference’s programming and we are deeply grateful for their continued presence. When you visit them at the exhibits fair, please thank them for their help in supporting SPE. This conference guide has been carefully constructed to help you make the most of your time here in New Orleans. In addition to the amazing conference content, I encourage you to visit galleries and museums, take a walk through the French Quarter (it’s more than just Bourbon Street!) eat a poboy or a beignet (or both!) and listen to at least three of the many different styles of music that can be heard throughout the city. It’s my hope that you leave New Orleans inspired by this great city’s energy, your colleagues’ work and ideas, and SPE’s ability to bring it all together for us. 2 See you at the conference! Jeff Curto From The Host Institution Dear SPE Conference Attendees, Welcome to New Orleans! Tulane University is especially proud to host the National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education. Originally founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana, tasked to improve the public health of the New Orleans region, Tulane has emerged today as a national and world leader in public service and social engagement. Our university is also recognized as a leader in scholarship, research and art-making. We are celebrated for being innovative, trend-setting, and student-centered. Our schools and our undergraduate college offer an impressively wide array of degrees in architecture, business, law, liberal arts, medicine, public health and tropical medicine, science and engineering, and social work. Indeed, the university has demonstrated a profound commitment to a superior learning environment by fostering outstanding scholarship, research, and artistic accomplishment among its faculty. Tulane professors have been awarded the most prestigious honors in the academic world along with being elected to membership in the National Academies and in the American Academy for Arts and Sciences. Over the past four decades, Tulane colleagues have received twenty-eight Fulbright Fellowships, twelve National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, eight Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, nine National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, three Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships, and two Nobel Prizes in Medicine. Tulane now resolutely connects its values and mission to the needs of the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region. As a consequence, the profile and impact of the research, scholarship, and artistic endeavors in which our faculty and students engage are being transformed. More and more, Tulane faculty and staff members focus their expertise on the pursuit of a wide array of public service efforts (citywide, regionwide, nationwide, and worldwide). At the same time, our students gain practical experience, putting their rapidly maturing skills to use. We are very proud that our students thus have a truly unique educational experience. And we know that our outstanding teaching and mentorship, and the striking diversity in the degree programs we offer, help attract to Tulane the very best faculty and students from across our nation and from around the world. In the final analysis, it is the faculty and staff who make Tulane the truly extraordinary place that it is. It is their excellence and skill that inspires our students and that will always enlighten, sustain, strengthen, and improve the wider communities we serve. We hope you enjoy your time in New Orleans—and we encourage you to take some time to visit one or several of our campuses in the metropolitan area. We wish you a most productive and fulfilling conference! With warm regards, Michael A. Bernstein John Christie Barr Professor of History and Professor of Economics Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Tulane University 3 Sponsors SPE wishes to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2015 SPE National Conference: HOST INSTITUTION Tulane University GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS Adobe Systems, Inc. | Bostick & Sullivan, Inc. | Canon | Columbia College Chicago