Colette Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Chair
COLETTEMEDIA@aol.com | www.colettecopeland.com

Colette Copeland is a multi-media visual artist whose work examines issues surrounding gender and contemporary culture. Sourcing personal narratives and popular media, she utilizes video, photography, performance and sculptural installation to question societal roles and the pervasive influence of media, and technology on our communal enculturation.

She teaches visual studies and critical writing at University of Pennsylvania. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and her MFA from Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Award for Art & Change. Over the past 7 years, her work has been exhibited in 12 solo exhibitions and 52 group exhibitions/festivals spanning 17 countries.

She has been involved with SPE since graduate school, chairing her first conference in 2001, and has been regional chair since 2002.

Lynn Estomin, Lycoming College
estomin@lycoming.edu

As a videographer, photographer and digital artist, Lynn Estomin creates art that speaks to social issues. Her award-winning video documentaries have been exhibited at film festivals internationally and broadcast nationally on PBS. Her still photography and digital images have been exhibited nationally.

As a board member of SPEMA, Estomin has served as Vice-Chair and Student Volunteer Coordinator. She has been a peer reviewer and portfolio reviewer for SPE national and she has curated the Women’s Film and Video Festival at the National SPE Conference since 1995. Estomin is a Professor of Art at Lycoming College in PA, where she teaches photography and digital art.

Peggy Feerick, George Mason University
Treasurer
pfeerick@gmu.edu

Peggy Feerick teaches and coordinates the Photography Program at George Mason University. Her work is exhibited both locally and nationally and represented in both private and public collections. She has received several grants and awards including George Mason’s Mathy award.

She has served as a lecturer, moderator and conference panelist, co-authored an article on “Women in Photography” and curated a photographic exhibition “The Telling Image: Portrait Photographs from the Archives of American Art” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Feerick has taught photography for over twenty years.

Andrew Atkinson, Montclaire State University
Board Member
atkinsona@mail.montclair.edu

Andrew Atkinson is a photographer, critic, curator and professor of digital photography at Montclair State University. He holds a Ph.D from the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England and is working on a book on the Woodburytype. He has curated exhibitions in the US and Italy and exhibits internationally.

He writes for Afterimage and the Architect’s Newspaper. He will be reviewing for MSU’s MFA fast growing studio program and for professionals.

Lindsay Sparagana, The University of the Arts
Board Member
lsparagana@gmail.edu

Lindsay Sparagana is a Philadelphia-based photographer and artist. She teaches in the Undergraduate, Pre-college and Continuing Studies departments at The University of the Arts and also works extensively in the Philadelphia arts community.

In 2008 and 2009, she received The New Courtland Artist’s Fellowship. Sparagana holds a BFA in photography from The University of the Arts and works with both traditional and digital photographic processes. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally.

Mark Ensslin, Bergen Community College
Board Member
mensslin@bergen.edu

Mark is a retired policeman, MFA and practicing artist

At a time when most of his former colleagues are looking to or already have retired, he is seeking to make a transition from a life of crime to a life in academia. He currently teaches art and photography at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ as an adjunct and mentor students in photography at Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, NJ.

Xang Mimi Ho, George Mason University
Website Editor
xho@gmu.edu

Xang Mimi Ho received her BFA from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, with a concentration in digital art and photography. In 2005, she completed her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, MD.

Her artwork explores themes of identity and social issues. Ms. Ho was chosen as the First Place winner in a national juried exhibition for young artists with disabilities from VSA Arts in 2005. She is currently teaching at George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College.