Time for Light

Midwest Regional Conference

Society for Photographic Education
Kalamazoo, Michigan
September 30 - October 2, 2010
Frostic School of Art
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

http://www.wmich.edu/art

Information Conference Exhibits

http://www.midwestspe.org
Registration
Early Bird, Postmarked by: September 9
Also, Available at Conference Site
Kalamazoo Art Hop: “Photo Fest”
Hosted by the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and Downtown Kalamazoo Incorporated
over 40 exhibition venues located throughout the city of Kalamazoo
October 1, 5-9 pm
Light Works: Photographs from the KIA Collection

Yinka Shonibare MBE, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Africa), type C Photograph mounted on Aluminum, 2008. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, NYC
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, September 18 - December 12
Keynote Speaker Reception October 1, 6-8 pm
Lucy Lippard
Carlos Diaz: The Invented Landscapes of Coney Island
Honored Educators Light Fine Arts Building, Kalamazoo College Art Gallery
with special reception sponsored by September 20th - October 8
The Christopher and Margo Light Fund of the Reception October 2, 5-7 pm
Kalamazoo Community Foundation
Dr. Nathan Lyons Featured Conference Exhibits at Western Michigan University
Dr. Jennifer Yamashiro Yinka Shonibare MBE: Sculpture, Photography & Film
Cheryl Younger Richmond Center for the Visual Arts
Albertine Monroe-Brown & Rose Netzorg and James W. Kerr Galleries
Featured Speakers September 9-October 15, Reception September 30, 7-9 pm
Laura Letinsky
Colleen Plumb SPE Student Juried Exhibition
Jen Blazina Richmond Center for the Visual Arts
The Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Student Art Gallery
September 26- October 2, Reception October 2, 7-9 pm
Conference Activities
Image Maker Presentations
SPE Pin-Up Exhibition
Historian & Critic Lectures
Sponsored by Kellogg Community College
Panel Discussions
South Korhman Galleries
Professional Portfolio Reviews
September 15- October 2, Reception October 2, 7-9 pm
Open Portfolio Sharing
Workshops

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The 2010 Regional SPE Time for Light Image Maker Presentations
conference will be a collaborative meditation Sandra Dyas: Heaven & Earth, FilippoTagliati: Tokyo, River City 21: between still and moving image, Alison Hahn: Contrast and Connection: The
on the past, present, and future contributions Flatbed Scanner in Personal and Academic Studios, Garin Horner: The Danger of Craftsmanship: Photography of Garin Horner, Philip Krejcarek
of lens-based media to art, society, and and Kate Loehrer: Creating and Photographing Installation Art: A Faculty/Student Collaboration, Michael Sawdey: “As large a charter as the
culture. The conference invites imagemakers wind”—#6 in a series of compositions to accompany a production of ‘As You Like It’”, Cynthia O’Dell: Legacies of the Famine: The Impossible
and theoreticians to examine and share the Return, Mark Slankard: Settled and Unsettling: Some Domestic Landscapes, Jacinda Russel: Walking Up Amarillo Ramp in High Heels to Ride
benefits and consequences of photography on the Memories of Hearing “Hi-Yo Silver, Away”, Hans Gindelsberger: In Close Proximity: Mapping and Staging Landscape, Lou Krueger: To
to the societies and cultures behind or in front specialize is to brush only one tooth, Stafford Smith: The Family Portrait Project
of the lens. So that imagemakers may better
understand the past, record the present, and Historian & Critic Lectures
shape the future, the MWSPE Time For Light Bruce Checesfky: The Unseen Practice of Carl Toth, Craig Smith: Interface: The Move to Global Participation, Daniel Mcinnins: Victimhood
conference will culminate in the restoration, Perceived: The Use of Photography as Agit-Prop During the Second Intifada, Doug Aikenhead: The World in Your Mailbox: Real Photo Postcards
renewal, and new discoveries of historic from the Early 20th Century, with Examples from All Thirteen States of the Midwest SPE, Claude Baillergeon: White Light, Flash Burns, & “the
and post-historic photographic discourse Atomic Plague”: Early Casualty Studies of Hibakusha, Alllyson Klutenkamper: The Narrative Impulse: Theatricality and Tableau in Contemporary
and practice. As we move forward and look
backward, the conference will convene in Panel Discussions
Kalamazoo to make and take time for light. Guggenheim Panel moderated by Jeffery A. Wolin: Fredrik Marsh, Ardine Nelson, James Nakagawa, Brian Ulrich, MWSPE Scholarship Winners:
June Yong Lee, Travis Shaffer, Ashley Miller, Heather Stratton, Rachelle Raymer-Gilbert, Evolution of a Photo Program: A Panel Discussion:
Kathleen Sanker, Stan Strembicki, Susan Moore, Lynn Whitney, Justin Leonard, Joe Johnson, WMU Alumni Panel: Jack Carney, Susan Carr,
Conference Co-Chairs: Adam De Kraker, Ryan Flathau, Steve Nelson, Fireworks, Flowers and Food: Scene Modes Investigated: Jennifer Hoag and Darlene Kaczmarczyk,
Bill Davis Kellogg Community College Student Presentation, Postcards for the Zoo: Chris Mortenson, Jonathan Johnson, John Engelbrecht, Jonathan
Adriane Little Rattner, Exploring the Future: Photography and the Internet: Zachary Dubuisson, Danielle Head, Kim Waite, Sarah Lothian, Yang Chen, Kristen
Shuichi Owen-Murakami Sykes, Audim Culver, and Rachel Seed, Western Michigan University Student Presentation
Ginger Owen-Murakami
Workshops (registration deadline, Sept. 9)
Robert Shimmin: The Wetplate Process Demonstration, Ryan Davis Flathau: Night Photography Workshop, Jeff Nilan: Artists’ Book Workshop,
Lou Krueger: Pinhole/Experimental Camera Workshop, Joe Smigiel and Mary Whalen: Wet Plate Collodion Workshop, Susan Carr, ASMP: What
Every Photographer Should Know About Copyright, Allyson Klutenkamper: MWSPE Scholarship Workshop
Art Direction: Barbara Loveland. Design: The Design Center, Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University