I hope your early Fall is going well and that you are planning on attending this year's conference in Eugene hosted by Terri Warpinski and her colleagues at the University of Oregon. Terri's team has put together a fantastic program for all of us and it is a wonderful time to get together and celebrate and learn from each other.
Here is a schedule of events so far!
Early registration is now available on the SPE website.
See you in November,
Ira Gardner
SPENW Chair
Thursday November 1st: (evening 6-8pm) KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Arthur Tress
The keynote lecture November 1st at 6:00 pm in 115LA will be given by Arthur Tress, a photographer of long-standing high regard in the field . Here is a link to a short essay about his career written by A.D.Coleman http://www.seegallery.net/en/onews.asp?id=356
Tress' work can be seen at www.arthurtress.com
After Tress' lecture we will have a reception in LVK to recognize the Alumni show that will be up. I have had enthusiastic response from many of our MFA and BFA alum from the last 25 years. So it should be good/great. They love the idea of being in the LVK again!!
Friday November 2nd:
Morning session:
Imagemaker presentations and screening session of short films encompassing the "Crossing the Divide" theme.
Afternoon session: JSMA Ford room.
We have two individual artist presentations. Justyna Badach and Lucas Foglia will give talks followed by a discussion between the artists facilitated by Jenny Lin, an art theorist and historian here at the University of Oregon.
Justyna Badach is from Philadelphia, who is showing at Blue Sky during the month of November and has agreed to come to Eugene for a one night stay to speak. She is getting fair amount of notice for a powerful body of work entitled "The Bachelor Portraits. Her work can be seen at http://www.justynabadach.com <http://www.justynabadach.com/> and an excellent feature piece on her was published in finitefoto issue 15 found at http://finitefoto.arloartists.com/private/page/cQ3y/16191
Here is an excerpt from that piece: ’My images are an investigation of rejection, isolation, marginalization and expression of individual desires. As an artist that came to the United States as a refugee, I am trying to make sense of personal displacement and a fragmented personal history. As a woman, I am curious about what my life would be like if I were a man and the possibility of inhabiting a masculine space. Having spent my childhood under a totalitarian regime, I have little faith in the veracity of photographic documents. My interest in images lay in their subjectivity and their relationship to individual experience. For the past 5 years I have been collaborating on a series of portraits with bachelors. These men tend to exist on the margins of culture and are often considered invisible by society. I usually meet the men for the first time when I arrive at their home to collaborate on a picture. The images we construct together depict the safety of places where they withdraw from the world to think, meditate and act out their fantasies. I am interested in the way that these personal spaces serve as both portrait and the junction between masculine and feminine, the man and myself."
Lucas Foglia http://lucasfoglia.com/
His work "Natural Order" was recently published by Nazraeli Press (located in Portland, by the way). He has another contract for a published project with Ampersand. Here is a short description of the work he will speak about:
"From 2006 through 2010, I traveled throughout the southeastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid. Motivated by environmental concerns, religious beliefs, or predictions of economic collapse, they build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs, and hunt, gather, or grow their own food.
All the people in my photographs are working to maintain a self-sufficient lifestyle, but no one I found lives in complete isolation from the mainstream. Many have websites that they update using laptop computers, and cell phones that they charge on car batteries or solar panels. They do not wholly reject the modern world. Instead, they step away from it and choose the parts that they want to bring with them.
Saturday November 3rd Lawrence Hall
All Day: We have 12 presenters (panels, lectures and image-makers) in two tracks that were selected from an open call to the regional membership and others. We will have displays of raffle and silent auction items, andtables set up for portfolio viewing by the participants. individual presenters and lectures will be going on throughout the morning and afternoon (9am-4pm). Presentations will overlap giving attendees a multiple track option. There will also be open portfolio sharing and an exhibitors fair going on throughout the day.
Evening Session
Saturday evening is our honored educator lecture, Dan Powell will speak at 4pm. Following his talk we will move to the Browsing Room at the Knight Library for a reception (4:30 - 6-ish)with a no-host bar and snacks.
After hours Party!!!
That evening, late (after dinner) we are trying to pull together a party at Maude Kerns Art Center with Microbrews and a deejay.
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