SPE- Multi Cultural Caucus

SPE's Governance Committee has assembled the slate of candidates for the SPE Board of Directors Election. The elected directors' terms will begin in January of 2025 and end in January of 2029. Current members are asked to log in to the SPE website and cast their vote by 11:59pm EST Oct 31st! Get more details at loom.ly/NMfLAwA.

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Good day beautiful people.

All leadership team positions for the Multi Cultural Caucus are open for election and application at this time. We are looking for spirited members looking to take on leadership roles and help strengthen our mission of inclusivity.

The new Chair and Secretary/Social media rep, will be in leadership from late March 2025 through March of 2028.

The Chair is responsible for:

-the overarching organization of the caucus
-planning events and programming at conferences and throughout the year.
-acting as the liaison between caucus membership and the SPE board and staff.
-coordinating and/or delegating activities such as the biannual newsletter, caucus social media, virtual programming etc.

The Secretary is responsible for:

-working closely with the Chair on all caucus activities
-recording minutes during meetings, both virtual and in person
-acting as a second liaison between caucus membership and the SPE board and staff

If you would like to run for Chair or Secretary, please e-mail the following to [email protected]

please include the following:
-Your name and location
-A short statement on why you want to run for the position and what you hope to bring to caucus leadership.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to get involved!!

Thanks everyone!

Join us!

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TODAYS THE DAY to send in your nominations for SPE's Board of Directors!

SPE is committed to meeting the needs of its members. The organization has met the challenges of the past few years with new energy and creative leadership. We invite you to nominate those individuals who want to be a part of SPE's future and who will help work to keep the organization vibrant and successful by serving during the 2025-2029 term.

Give some thought to who would be an energetic, inventive, and diligent addition to our leadership. If you think it’s you, then nominate yourself!

Recommendations must be made by current SPE members. Self-nominations are accepted. Send in your nominations now through May 15th, 2024 at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesXA2XDrT6dCSFoE6Qq1WoaiVddnfOQD_zR61SZOrv5Ap5Zw/viewform

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Hello! Our leadership is diligently working on programing for next year and needs our caucus members to nominate keynote speakers for the 2025 conference. Who would you like to see at the conference? Be sure to reach out with suggestions!

[email protected]

First of all thank you ALL for your attendance and feedback at our Multi-cultural Caucus meeting. We cannot exist without each of you!

Some of you indicated your desire to help with programming and or with the combined caucus exhibition, please, please reply and we will get you started! As communicated we cannot do this without you.

From what we gathered at our meeting these are of top concerns: Virtual programming interests: Virtual studio work shop, virtual portfolio review, grant writing, and artist mentorship

This is the plan:

1. We will be working on 4 virtual programming sessions for the year.
2. Set out a list of those interested in mentorship, we will follow up with a pairing.
3. Connect those interested in seeking help with grant writing (this may look like a virtual programming event).

Feel free to reply with more.

Looking forward to re-igniting this caucus with a fruitful year of collaborative efforts.

Cheers!!

Images from the combined caucus exhibition in STL Spe National Conference

Beautiful work! Congrats to all!!

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Society for Photographic Education Our Multi-Cultural Caucus members are showing up to help us build the community we deserve!

Day 1 Society for Photographic Education 2024 Conference. What a great batch of humans changing the lens of the world!

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Hello members of the SPE, multicultural caucus!

My name is Mari, I am on the board at SPE and Chair of the Multi-Caucus Committee. I formally invite you to attend this years multicultural caucus meeting being held at the national conference in St. Louis. The meeting will be held Thursday at 12 noon, in the Kingsbury room. I will be filling in for the current Caucus chair Shadia Nilforoush.

The Multi-Cultural caucus has been a major part of the community at SPE, addressing visual, educational and social political engagement. Past members, and some present, are Deborah Willis, Wendel White, Bill Gaskin, Sama Alshaibi, Lali Khalid, Corianna Close, Zora Murf, Arthur Fields and many more.

A very important question we will be addressing is the need for a multi-cultural caucus at SPE. How can the caucus be of better service-are there pressing concerns that we can better address and if so how can we best serve those concerns. Are we at the point where inclusive presence and engagement in our community have been met and there is no need for a collective presence? If so, how can we increase further engagement and participation?

It would be a pleasure if you can show your support and involvement in this hearty conversation. Looking forward to what I know will be a dynamic conference.

Cheers,

Mari

I am ecstatic to report the registration for the Society for Photographic Education National Conference in St.Louis is soaring. I couldn't be prouder of the excellent team behind the planning of the event.

If you have never been, checkout our SPE guide - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Attending the Conference But Were Afraid to Ask . Thank you Deborah Orloff for your generosity. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p7_b3f0_YUWNjGFYi4NBwa6NDM7DLqRl/view?usp=sharing

FYI, the SPE room block at the St. Louis Marriott Grand has reached capacity, but here are some other nearby hotels to consider during your visit:

Hotel Indigo St. Louis - Downtown
Holiday Inn St. Louis - Downtown
Hyatt Regency at the St. Louis Arch
Courtyard by Marriot St. Louis Downtown
HoteLumiere at the Arch
Draft Kings at Casino Queen
Americas Best Value Inn St. Louis Downtown

Thank you so much for being part of SPE, and I hope to see you in St. Louis!

Hey MCC Members!

Call for Events: St. Louis

FYI - Coco Fusco will be one of the featured speakers at the 2024 National Conference.

Coco Fusco’s Fight to Rebalance Power Throughout her decades-long career, Fusco has laid bare the many mechanisms through which subjugated bodies are stripped of their agency.

Don't miss our virtual MFA Open House on November 5, 2023
from 11am to 4:30pm EST! This is a chance for prospective students to engage directly with Boston University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University, University of Connecticut, and Washington University in St. Louis.

The Virtual Open House consists of informal 15 minute sessions with each university followed by 25 minute breakout sessions.

Register in advance for this virtual event at loom.ly/C6ZcP1I!

CALL FOR ENTRY!!! Submit your work!

We are pleased to announce the 12th International Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition Call for Entry for Pride, Multicultural, Contingent Faculty, High School Educators, and Women’s Caucuses of SPE.

The 12th International SPE Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition is organized with the 2024 SPE 55th Annual Conference, New Realities. New Realities; the evolving social, political, and technological circumstances that confront us
in our daily photographic and pedagogical practices.

This year’s show will be on view at Washington University in St. Louis March, 2024.

Submit
Your work here: https://spenational.slideroom.com/?fbclid=IwAR39VTG5jh218sNS6M44JOpaxzKif3tzZJhldHZeYnLYeB4bNC3DtafE9y8_aem_AeFpi9ow0gKAmMOJ3mxH7p7_WzwkRlGXS0bQDmoVMxjCJltr846U7X8ZUP4m9-Crg_g #/Login

We are delighted to have Sama Alshaibi as our distinguished juror. Alshaibi’s practice interrogates the social codes found in images, texts, and artifacts to question the construction of history and its impact on a speculative future. Shaped by photography’s historic and outsized role in generating the gendered and flattened representations of Middle Eastern and North African people and their spaces, Alshaibi reframes this legacy by presenting the Arab female figure as a complex site that embodies the physical and psychic realms of the individual and community when resources, land, mobility, and political agency are compromised. She activates her body as a mobile medium in consideration of those who are violated and uprooted into physical and psychological exile or positioned as unwanted, alien, silenced, and disappeared.

Photo from Sama Alshaibi exhibition “Tell it to the River,” Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
27 Feb 2023 – 30 June 2023

The 2024 SPE National Conference will be just steps away from this national treasure.

On this day in 1965, construction is completed on the Gateway Arch on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri. This monument, was the completion of one man's dream, Luther Ely Smith. Smith was an attorney in St. Louis and also participated in the design process for another important Midwest memorial, the George Rogers Clark Memorial. Smith was a part of the Federal George Rogers Clark Memorial Commission.

Smith followed the events in Vincennes with great interest and watched as the Clark Memorial rose triumphantly on the banks of the Wabash. He saw a decaying industrial riverfront in Vincennes transformed into a state and national shrine. He wondered if the same could be done for St. Louis and its riverfront along the Mississippi. Smith wanted to return the St. Louis waterfront to its former glory and create “a lovely park reclaimed from riverside slums and factory refuse.” Thus the Gateway Arch idea was born.

Today, millions of people visit the Arch, ride to the top, and get a greater understanding of America’s western expansion, particularly Lewis and Clark. Yet, many do not realize that this monument had its origins in a monument to another Clark and the role that he and his frontiersmen played in helping the United States become a nation.

We are pleased to announce the 12th International Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition Call for Entry for Pride, Multicultural, Contingent Faculty, High School Educators, and Women’s Caucuses of SPE. The 12th International SPE Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition is organized with the 2024 SPE 55th Annual Conference, New Realities.

New Realities; the evolving social, political, and technological circumstances that confront us in our daily photographic and pedagogical practices. This year’s show will be on view at
Washington University in St. Louis March, 2024.

We are delighted to have Sama Alshaibi as our distinguished juror. Alshaibi’s practice interrogates the social codes found in images, texts, and artifacts to question the construction of history and its impact on a speculative future.

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It's time for the SPE Student Awards for Innovations in Imaging!
All SPE student members, including high school students, are eligible to apply for a scholarship to offset the cost of attending SPE's annual conference. Must log in as current member to apply! Submit now on the SPE Slideroom at loom.ly/0_Za8_Q. The deadline is October 15th!

MCC Members: we are looking for a volunteer to serve as rep for the multi caucus exhibition. As an inclusive exhibition, we look for members to join as caucus representatives to help with a variety of duties. DM if interested.

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Houston Center for Photography - 2023 HCP Fellowship Awards Deadline: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 at 11:59 PM, Central TimeEXHIBITION ON VIEW: Winter 2023/ 2024 Each year, Houston Center for Photography selects an expert writer, critic, or curator to identify two artists from hundreds of submissions who exemplify excellence and innovation in their approaches to....

New Media Film programming for the 2024 SPE Media Festival is underway. We are in need of an MCC representative.

If interested you can contact Amanda Kline. DM for contact info.