Conference ‘09
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Schedule | Sponsors | Keynote | Location | Speakers | Scholarships | Registration
Exhibitions | Honored Educator | Proposals | Portfolio Reviews | Vendors
Conference 2009: Schedule
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Event |
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4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Conference Registration |
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
Keynote Presentation: ARTSTAR PanelThe “art-reality” TV series ARTSTAR attempts to do for the art world what other shows have done for pop singing, fashion design, and filmmaking. ARTSTAR offers an intriguing, tense, and sometimes hilarious look at what it takes to make it as an artist in New York. Read more » |
10:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. |
Zombie Party: Come As You Died (Totowa Wayne Holiday Inn)Informal Reception and Get-Together |
Time |
Event |
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9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
Educator’s Forum: Sean Justice, “Marketing Photographic Education to China”Sean Justice works as an artist, curator and educator in New York. This artist presentation will focus on his work in China since 2005. Read more » |
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Portfolio ReviewersReceive feedback and critique from curators, artists, gallery directors, and grad school directors. Read more » |
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Educator’s Forum: Keith Shapiro, “Looking at Photography Education as a Market”Keith Shapiro is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts at Penn State. He will present and discuss the results of his recent research regarding practical aspects of teaching photography such as class sizes, coping with technological changes, funding adequacy, and student educational and career expectations. Read more » |
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Education Panel: The Adjunct Instructor in Today’s Market
In recent years colleges have relied on adjuncts more heavily to save money and avoid having to commit to someone for more than a semester. Herein resides a dilemma.... Read more » |
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Portfolio ReviewersReceive feedback and critique from curators, artists, gallery directors, and grad school directors. Read more » |
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Regional MeetingsAll conference attendees are requested to attend. |
12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. |
Honored Educator: Martha Madigan (University Hall, Room 1070)Martha Madigan has been creating photograms of nature and the human figure for more than 25 years. Currently, she is Chairperson of the Department of Photography of the Tyler School of Arts at Temple University. Read more » |
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Scholarship Winners |
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
Leigh Metzler, “Sucking the Plastic Tit: The New Culture of Sexual Terrorism”An exploratory effort mainly asking how the average American expresses creativity in an increasingly neutering and homogenized society. Read more » |
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Sean Fader“...Fader has managed to find a practice in which the seamlessness of his technical manipulation of digital photography is counter-posed with messy, funny, uncomfortable, and charged psychological and intersubjective negotiations that make the work alluring and, ultimately, unsettling.” Read more » |
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Amber Hawk SwansonHawk Swanson holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and two BFAs from Iowa State University. Notable projects include “The Feminism? Project” and “Amber Doll” Read more » |
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
Break |
4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. |
Andy Warhol & the Market: William Ganis & Neil Baldwin in Conversation
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6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
Student Award Reception |
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
Tyler School of Art ReunionTemple University will host a reception for alumni at Montclair, room TBA. |
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
Andy Warhol: Through a Glass StarklyCurated by William Ganis | Exhibition Reception, George Segal Gallery |
