Society for Photographic Education

*Tentative Agenda Subject to Change*

Parking @ Cabrillo is Free from Friday after 5pm &  Saturday all day:

• Sesnon House Lot N 
• Lot M (by childcare center)
• Lot L (by Theater and Music)

Friday November 18th

10am-4pm

Reversed Cyanotype Photogram Workshop

Instructor: Martha Casanave • www.marthacasanave.com

Photography Lab VAPA 2028/2026

2pm-4pm

Teaching Workshop:

Eric Joseph from Freestyle

“Snapshot of the Industry, Cross-Over Processes with Digital Inkjet and Uncoated Paper Introduction”

Digilab VAPA 2021

4pm

Gallery Walk-Through, “Without Art” Exhibition with Gallery Director Tobin Keller

 “WITHOUT ART” Exhibition

Cabrillo Gallery

Library Rm 1002 (across the street from VAPA complex)

Open 9am-4pm, Monday – Friday • November 14 – December 16, 2011

Imagine life without art? The Cabrillo Gallery invited artists from the VAPA division, working in all mediums and disciplines, to comment on life without art. In this age of dramatic budget cuts the arts typically suffer the most. The Cabrillo Gallery becomes an austere representation of what life might be like without art of any kind.

3:30pm-5:30pm
Onsite Registration
Photography Lab Room VAPA 2025

4:30-6:30pm

Friday Night – Happy Hour + Free Taco Bar

Best Western Sea Cliff Inn Hotel Severino’s Bar (SPE WEST Hotel)

7:00pm

Honored Educator Lecture: Brian Taylor

“A Full Life: Art and Teaching”
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH @ 7PM
Crocker Theater

8:30pm-10:30pm

Wine/Cheese Mingle Party (+Music) & Informal Portfolio Sharing

*After Honored Educator Talk*

Sesnon House, An Elegant Historic Mansion on the campus of Cabrillo College (down the way from VAPA complex)

All Registered Conference Attendees (Students, Imagemakers, and Educators) are invited to come hang out, mingle, and be welcomed by the SPE WEST board at the Historic Sesnon House.  We will have cheese and fruit served as well.  Bring photographic prints in a portfolio box or a photographic book for setting up images to share on tables in the Sesnon House if you are interested.  Guests will mingle and chat while meeting folks in the photography community and fellow SPE WEST members!

Live Band  – Servino’s Bar & Grill @ Sea Cliff Inn Hotel –Until 11PM/Midnight

Saturday November 19th

Complimentary Hot Breakfast Buffet for Best Western Sea Cliff Inn Hotel Guests

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9am – 11:30am

Onsite Registration
Photography Lab, VAPA 2025

Cabrillo Farmer’s Market - 8am-12noon • Saturday Morning

Coffee & Pastries - Across the street from VAPA complex at Cabrillo

9:30am – 12noon

TRACK A: Art History Forum, VAPA 1000

9:30am-10am – Noah Wilson

Noah Wilson holds an MFA from San Jose State University and a BA in art history from Humboldt State University. Wilson has had solo shows at the Haines Gallery and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco. He has also shown with Kala Art Institute, the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, The African American Museum of Oakland and the Triton Museum. He currently teaches photography at Foothill College, in Los Altos Hills.

10:05am-10:55am- Photophilanthropy, Founder Nancy Farese

PhotoPhilanthropy promotes and connects photographers with non-profit organizations around the world to tell the stories that drive action for social change. CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE PHOTO AT A TIME.

11:05am-12noon – Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin is a mother, photographer, and educator with an appetite for exploring the world. Wherever she goes, she brings a compassionate and curious lens backed by traditional film. For her efforts at capturing a disappearing world, she has received a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, an IREX IARO Grant (National Endowment for the Humanities), and a Houston Center for Photography Fellowship for her work in Romania. Her images have appeared in PDN, LensWork, Rangefinder, B&W Magazine, Black + WhitePhotography (UK), and The Times Saturday Magazine (UK). Her photographs have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and are in the permanent collections at the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, Western Virginia Museum of Art, and the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest.

TRACK B: Painting Studio, VAPA 2020

9:30am-10am – Clare Lerner

Claire Lerner was born and raised in New York, New York. She received her MFA and BFA in Fine Art Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After graduate school Claire moved to California where she was a
member of the photography faculty at Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California for ten years. For the past twelve years she has taught black and white and digital photography at the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California. She
has conducted many workshops on various photographic processes including Cabrillo Arts summer 2011 workshops, The Monterey Museum of Art, and The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

10:05am-10:55am – Doug Dertinger

Doug Dertinger is an assistant professor of photography at CSU Sacramento. His own work and research is primarily in issues surround land, landscape, and land use, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His most current research is centered on the depiction of landscape and its relationship to national identity.

11:05am- 12noon – Tom Patton

Tom Patton heads the Photography program at California State University, Chico, serving as a full-time educator for 30+ years. His grants include support from the National Endowment for the Arts & the Phelan Foundation. His most recent exhibitions (2010-2011) include the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City) & the Mary Brogan Museum of Art (Tallahassee).

9:30am-4pm

VENDORS FAIR

VAPA 2022

• 12noon-1:30pm • Lunch available @ Cabrillo from Cruz N Gourmet Food Truck (Bring cash)
  

12noon-1:45pm

GRAD CRITIQUE #1

Digilab VAPA 2021

GRAD CRITIQUE #2

Drawing Studio VAPA 2014

10am – 2pm

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

VAPA 2005/VAPA 2008 – Printmaking Rooms

1:30pm – 5pm

TRACK A: Art History Forum, VAPA 1000

1:30pm – 2:25pm – Schulz, Krane, Kashef

Panel Biographies
Stacy E. Schultz is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at UTEP. Her publications include “Asian American Women Artists: Performative Strategies Redefined,” Journal of Asian American Studies (January 2012); “Naming in Order to Heal and Redeem: Violence Against Women in Performance,” n. paradoxa (Activist Art Issue, January 2009); and “Latina Identity: Reconciling Ritual, Culture, and Belonging,” Woman’s Art Journal (Spring/Summer 2008).
Niku Kashef is a visual artist and educator living and working in Los Angeles. Her process stems from the desire to question and understand through collection and collaboration. Most of works are paper-based: photographs, monoprints, and paper-based installations dealing with ideas of displacement and the uncanny. She serves on both local and national committees for the arts. She is the President of the Southern California chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art (SCWCA).
Lesley Krane grew up in Los Angeles. She earned an M.F.A. in Studio Art with a minor in Photography History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1995. Committed to the practice of “slow photography” and the advantages of waiting, Lesley teaches her students to have a reverence and sensitivity for the medium. A member of the Freestyle Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals, she has exhibited and presented her work at local, national, and international venues.

2:30pm – 3:25pm – Scott Hopkins & Ken Light

Ken Light is a freelance documentary photographer and Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C.Berkeley and cofounder of Fotovision, and the International Fund for Documentary photography. His work has been published in seven books, including Delta Time, To The Promised Land, With These Hands, Texas Death Row and most recently, Coal Hollow. He is also the author of the text, Witness in Our Time: Lives of Working Documentary Photographers. http://kenlight.com
Scott Hopkins is an Associate Professor at CSU East Bay and a documentary photographer whose work has been shown nationally and internationally. He has documented the Peace Walls in Northern Ireland, the Israel-Palestine separation fence, and is currently working on a project documenting the U.S. – Mexico border. www.borderista.com

3:30pm – 3:55pm – Amanda Herman

Amanda Herman is a San Francisco based artist. She works with communities, families, or individuals to collaboratively create films, photographs, installations, and public interactions that address complex social issues. This often involves telling
stories of survival and transformation that mix fact, fiction, and most recently, fantasy. She holds an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of the Arts.

4:00pm – 4:55pm – Moshe Quinn

Moshe Quinn explores silence, traces, and substance in urban environments. He has exhibited in Japan, Korea, and throughout the U.S. His photographs have garnered awards from Paul Sack in San Francisco and Asher Miller of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A commission of his work resides at the University of San Francisco.

1:30Pm – 5pm

TRACK B: Painting Studio, VAPA 2020

1:30pm – 2:00pm – Kirkman Amyx

Kirkman Amyx is both a commercial and fine-art photographer. He received a BFA with distinction from the Art Center College of Design in 1986, and earned an MFA from San Jose State University in 2010. He currently serves as Associate Director of Photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

2:05pm – 2:25pm – Glenna Cole Allee & Victoria Heilweil

Glenna Cole Allee  is a photographer, artist and curator. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from Reed College. She has worked as an arts educator, teaching photography to youth in the Mission and Bayview Districts, and to homeless and low-income residents of the city. She is a founding member of MicroClimate Collective, an artist created curatorial project.

Victoria Mara Heilweil is a nationally exhibited photographic artist, educator and curator. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 1995. Victoria has taught at community colleges, four-year universities and art schools for the past 13 years; and is a founding member of MicroClimate Collective, an artist created curatorial project.

2:30pm – 3:00pm – Kate Jordahl

Kate Jordahl is a Professor of Photography, Foothill College. She photographs places where spirit of the earth and the human spirit come together. Her work is in numerous collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Jordahl’s work is represented by Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco. She was editor for the book “Searching for True North” published by Modernbook Editions in 2008 and author/photographer for the “Conversation Series” with Dreaming Mind. Teaching inspires Jordahl. Making her photographs then sharing that process and helping others make their own photographs completes the circle of creativity for Kate.

3:05pm – 3:30pm – Mel Johnson, Student Presentation

Mel Johnson is a visual and performance artist whose current work examines female gender variance, specifically female-born masculinity. She currently pursues an MFA at Cal State Fullerton where she teaches creative photography as a Teaching Associate, and has assisted Professor Linda Kroff in teaching photography theory, alternative process photography, and installation exhibition.

3:35pm – 4:00pm – Elizabeth Moran, Student Presentation

Elizabeth Moran lives and works in San Francisco as a photographer. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York and is pursuing her MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

4:05pm – 4:35pm – Stephanie Jane Halmos, Student Presentation

Stephanie Jane Halmos’s practice is entirely interdisciplinary, swaying between photography, performance, installation and video art. I spent my youth in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and after completing my BFA (Miami University, 2006), I moved to New York where I lived and worked for five years. During my time in New York (which I now consider home), I assisted commercial artists such as Annie Leibovitz, Kate Simon, and Danny Clinch while simultaneously building my studio practice. My work has been shown at Art Basel, Miami (2008), The Carnegie Museum of Art, CA (2009), The Aperture Gallery, NY (2009), and the Chelsea Art Museum, NY (2011), among many others. I am currently a Master’s candidate at the California College of the Arts (MFA 2012).

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Michael’s on Main

For Nibbles & Drinks before Presenter (For those interested)

2591 Main Street – Soquel, CA 95073 – (831) 479-9777

http://www.michaelsonmain.net/

(2 miles from Cabrillo – West on Soquel Drive, Left on Main Street)

7pm

Keynote  Speaker: Liz Cohen

“Artist as Method Actor and Body as Site”

Crocker Theater

8:30/9pm  (After Keynote Speaker on Saturday Night)

High School Photo-Teacher Meetup

Servino’s Bar & Grill @ Sea Cliff Inn Hotel (SPE WEST Hotel)

Hosted by: Jessica Hayes, Los Altos High School Photography Teacher & Claire Lerner, Santa Catalina Upper School Photography Teacher

8pm-Midnight

Live Band  – Servino’s Bar & Grill @ Sea Cliff Inn Hotel

(SPE WEST Hotel)

Sunday November 20th

Complimentary Hot Breakfast Buffet for Sea Cliff Inn Hotel Guests

10am-12noon

Tour of Edward Weston’s House

* Sign-up was online during registration

Suggested Food & Coffee Near Hotel & Down Street from Cabrillo:

• Zameen Cuisine – 7528 Soquel Drive, Aptos, California 95003 (Mediterranean)
• Taqueria Los Gordos- 7488 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA (831) 688-0911
• Pacific Coffee Roasting – 7554 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA 95003-3820 (831) 685-2520
•  Heather’s Patisserie - 7486 Soquel Dr, Aptos CA 95003 (831) 662-3546 (bakery/deli)

Coffee & Food Walking Distance from Cabrillo College – 5 minute walk (for coffee & lunch):

• Farm Bakery & Cafe – 6790 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA 95003-3224 (831) 684-0266
• AJ’s Market & Natural Food 5955 Soquel Dr Soquel, CA 95073  (831) 479-0399 (Down the street from Cabrillo – Go West on Soquel about 1 mile and right into AJ’s Gas Station/Market)