The South Central Society for Photographic Education Conference that will be held at Mississippi State University from October 25-28. The conference will be co-hosted by The Department of Art and The Department of Communication to promote intercollegiate collaboration within the university by involving students, faculty, staff, and the facilities in each department, as well as the community of Starkville, with a regional chapter of a national organization. The Society for Photographic Education is a nonprofit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography and related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight.
The South Central SPE chapter is comprised of seven states: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas, with conferences hosted by institutions of higher education for the exploration of academic discourse surrounding the medium of photography. Opportunities will exist at the conference for SPE members and MSU students, faculty, and staff to participate in this discourse with panel discussions, image-maker presentations, exhibitions, portfolio reviews, workshops, critiques, and honoring a distinguished educator.
The 2012 conference titled Nothing Ventured / Nothing Gained: The Creative Risk, will focus on the risks artists take in the conceptual and technical aspects of their work, and the challenges they overcome in their visual research. Mississippi State University’s commitment to hosting the conference will critically examine the diversity of photographic practice by addressing the three major sectors of photography: traditional, digital, and alternative processes, not only with member participation, but by inviting Keynote Speaker Todd Hido and Featured Speakers Kelli Connell, and Susan Burnstine to talk about their research.
There will be a host of events from four workshops / four major presentations / twenty-nine lectures and panel presentations / three exhibitions / two receptions / a raffle of donated artwork / portfolio reviews and a jazz party. We will have attendees from all across the country. The SPESC Honored educator is Dornith Doherty of University of North Texas a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow.
One panel discussion will focus on photography in Mississippi High School. It is scheduled for Friday, October 26, 10:00 – 11:00am and will be made up of SPE members who will address topics related to incorporating photography and photographic technology into the Mississippi High School Art curriculum. This opportunity will allow SPE members to use their knowledge and expertise in the field of photography and higher education to address questions and concerns those high school educators and students might have about photographic education, careers in photography, photography as art, and much more. Funding for this panel is made possible through the Mississippi Arts Commission.
Because the South Central Society for Photographic Education conference will bring a unique opportunity for the faculty and students at Mississippi State University to comment on relevant contemporary concerns in the medium of photography, we are confident in the scope of the conference to be a successful academic activity that will promote Mississippi Sate University as leader in the photography community.
It is not too late. You can register onsite!
Non- MSU employee and Non-SPE member the cost is $95 for the full conference.
Non-MSU employee and SPE member the cost is $75 for the full conference.
MSU employee and Non-SPE member the cost is $50 for the full conference.
MSU employee and SPE member the cost is $40 for the full conference.
To become a SPE member go to: https://www.spenational.org/members/join
We can take check / cash or credit card. Checks should be made out to SPE [Society for Photographic Education]. This rate includes all presentations, workshops on Friday and Saturday, all receptions, the scholarship raffle, jazz night and the Sunday morning portfolio review. Registered attendees can bring a guest to Jazz nigh for $20.00.
Thursday night registration will be at the VAC starting at 5pm. Friday it will be in the student union starting at 8am.
If you wish to attend you can complete the form below and return it to Professor Marita Gootee at mgootee@caad.msstate.edu. We will then have your tag printed prior to registration.
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