2012 Midwest SPE Scholarship Opportunities; deadline December 5, 2011 download information
Congratulations to the 2011 Midwest SPE Scholarship Recipients
Adjunct — Amanda Pfister, St. Louis, MO (St. Charles Community College)
Graduate — David Bowman, Minneapolis, MN (Academy of Art University)
Undergraduate — Dana Wickwire, Omaha, NE (Metropolitan Community College)
Undergraduate Sponsored by Midwest Photo Exchange — Stephanie Vance, Albion, MI (Albion College)
Juror's Special Recognition — Rachel Reisert, Cincinnati, OH (Adjunct — University of Dayton, Sinclair Community College)
We would like to acknowledge Mark Malloy for his kind personal donation for of the Juror Special Recognition Award to support an adjunct scholarship, as well as the Midwest Photo Exchange for their sponsorship of the Undergraduate Student Scholarship Award. These generous donations helped to support student attendance to the Atlanta SPE national conference. Thank you!
SPE regional organizations serve to create a sense of community within each of eight geographic area of the United States. The Midwest region includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. It is the largest geographic area of the eight regions in SPE. Regional members and volunteers organize fall conferences. Conferences include image maker presentations and panel speakers, as well as invited speakers. Student exhibitions and presentations are also often included. Past region conferences have been hosted in Omaha Nebraska, St. Louis Missouri, Columbus Ohio, Chicago Illinois, Grand Rapids Michigan to name a few. Many regional associations also take an active role in advocacy issues, special publications and newsletters. The Midwest also sponsors scholarships for students (undergraduate and graduate) and adjunct faculty to attend the national conference. The Midwest Regional officers are: Chair - Shuichi Murakami, Treasurer - Victoria Veenstra, Secretary - Joy Christiansen Erb, and Webmaster - Adriane Little.
Through programs and publications, SPE promotes the understanding of photography, in all its forms, and fosters developmentof photographic practice, teaching, scholarship and critical analysis. SPE members are among the most gifted photographers and teachers in the field. SPE is the national representational body for photography departments and faculty members of the college-level educational community, serving to unite and promote hundreds of degree-granting programs, and sponsoring allied institutions and workshops.
In 1963, the Society for Photographic Education was established by a number of highly respected photographers, critics, historians and educators, including Nathan Lyons, John Szarkowski, Aaron Siskind and Henry Holmes Smith. Since then virtually all noted artists, curators and critics in the field of photography have been involved with SPE of SPE's programs at some point in their careers. SPE has become an important vehicle for the dissemination of information and criticism about new and experimental photography and related media.
SPE's journal of record, Exposure, is one of the leading professional periodicals in the U.S. blending scholarly insight, historical perspectives, critical dialogue, and educational issues. Ideas for issues of exposure are solicited and reviewed annually.
SPE's national conference, held in March of each year, is a four-day event featuring lectures, panel discussions and artists' presentations selected from national submissions, and balanced with presentations by nationally known speakers.
The Society is more than a collection of some of the finest talents in the field today; it is the representational body for photography programs and faculty within the college-level educational community. As such, it serves to unite and promote the hundreds of degree-granting programs nationwide, as well as allied institutions and workshops.
Present membership includes critics, curators, gallery directors, exhibiting photographers, photojournalists, students, teachers and collectors, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Shuichi Murakami: Midwest Regional Chair
Frostic School of Art
Western Michigan University
1903 W. Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5213
email Shuichi: shuichi.murakami@gmail.com
Victoria Veenstra: Midwest Regional Treasurer
Associate Professor
School of Communications
Grand Valley State University
290 Lake Superior Hall
Allendale, MI 49401
phone: 616.331.3668, 616.331.3957
email Victoria: veenstrv@gvsu.edu
visit GVSU online: gvsu.edu/soc
Joy Christiansen Erb
Assistant Professor
Youngstown State University
email Joy: jchristiansenerb@ysu.edu
Allyson Klutenkamper: Midwest Scholarship Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Photography Program Coordinator
Shawnee State University
Department of Fine, Digital and Performing Arts
940 Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662
email Allyson: aklutenkamper@me.com
Adriane Little: Midwest Regional Webmaster
Frostic School of Art
Western Michigan University
1903 W. Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5213
email Adriane: adriane.little@wmich.edu
Adriane's website: adrianelittle.com
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