Don’t forget!  Our friends at the Photographic Center Northwest are hosting the Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference next week from November 6-8.

SPE is a non-profit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography-related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight.  This year’s regional conference will feature teachers, artists and demonstrations that highlight photographic education in the Pacific Northwest.

Registration (PDF download) is still open and starts at only $35.

- Bart J. Cannon, Program Manager

This previous week, Blue Earth project photographer Subhankar Banerjee took part in the Gender on Ice Conference at the Barnard College of Columbia University in New York.  Sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the conference provided “critical feminist engagements with a newly exposed past, as well as more recent scholarship and art works that demonstrate a feminist opening of the territory of the polar regions.”

Benerjee’s article Land-as-Home: Environmental and Political Imperialism in the North was subsequently published in the Center’s journal, The Scholar and Feminist.

- Bart J. Cannon, Program Manager

Blue Earth Advisory Board member Jason Houston will be participating in The Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art, October 2-4, 2008.  The conference is intend to bring together “some of today’s most notable scientists, artists, architects and designers to begin a dialogue about the environmental connections between these disciplines.”

Serving as Picture Editor for Orion magazine, Jason continues his own work on social and environmental themes including food culture, the social landscape of suburban American family life, and a multi-media project documenting the grassroots campaigns of Rare Conservation in the developing tropics around the world.

Jason will be participating in the “what’s neXt: Artists Imagining the Future” panel moderated by Jeff Gordinier that will bring together “Gen X artists, designers, and writers whose work aspires to change the way people view and experience the world.”  If you are planning on attending the conference, don’t miss this session!

- Bart J. Cannon, Program Manager