Document & Identity the 2009 SPE WEST "Unconference & Retreat"
Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:00 AM -
Sunday, December 06, 2009 2:00 PM (Pacific Time)
The Evergreen Conference Center
(559) 683-8162
43803 Highway 41
Oakhurst, CA 93644
USA
 Map and Directions
KEYNOTE: Catherine Opie
HONORED EDUCATOR: Robbert Flick
Think Mountains and start conjuring up memories of childhood summer camp life – because the SPE WEST “unConference” and Retreat will take
you back! The Evergreen Conference Center,
Oakhurst (ECCO) is located on the north side of the beautiful mountain
village of Oakhurst, California. This is in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
in eastern central California just south of Yosemite National Park. The
air is clear and clean, the streams and lakes sparkle in the sun, and
winters are mild.
You’ll be nestled
in with your colleagues in lodge style accommodations and served
only the best camp style food that ECCO has to offer! As a bonus, participants arriving early will have the opportunity to attend a
pre-conference field trip to see Ansel Adams' original darkroom and
house in Yosemite Valley.
Join your colleagues to enjoy these featured speakers as well as image maker presentations, professional development workshops, yoga, field trips and plain old hanging out around the camp fire. All attendees will be asked to submit images for an on-site projection too!
Educators, students and image makers of any kind are invited to join and participate. Pack your warm socks and get in the spirit for Camp SPE WEST.
The Society for Photographic
Educaton West encompasses California, Nevada. For more information about SPE WEST visit www.spewest.org.
SV97022802 Long Beach Harbor ©Robbert Flick
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Oliver in a tutu,©Catherine Opie
FEES: Includes conference fee, 5 meals and 2 night stay at ECCO.
$175 conference/no lodging
$175 conference/dorm room lodging
$250 shared double/quad lodging
$425 private double lodging
ABOUT SPE: Prior to the
1960s, photography was taught primarily in departments of journalism at
American universities. SPE emerged at a time when art departments were
beginning to offer photography in their curriculum.
Nathan Lyons, then
associate director at the George Eastman House, recognized the newly
emerging academic field; he coordinated and hosted a conference in
November 1962 in Rochester, NY to address the concerns of these
educators. Beaumont Newhall, Walter Rosenblum, Arthur Sinsabaugh, Aaron
Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, John Szarkowski, Jerry Uelsmann and
Clarence White were among the thirty attendees at the “Invitational
Teaching Conference.” Representing the intersection of fine art
practice, education and history, these early participants aimed to
formulate the goals, future and improvement of photographic education.
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