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April
19 – June 1, 2008
PhotoSpiva
is open to any photographer
in the United States or its territories.
www.photospiva.org
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Celebrating
its 32nd year, Spiva’s acclaimed national competition
results in an exhibition of excellence, a “snapshot”
of contemporary photography featuring
notable works by U.S. amateurs and professionals.
PhotoSpiva
2008 Award Winners
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PhotoSpiva
2008 Juror:
Rod Slemmons
Rod
Slemmons has been the Director of the Museum
of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College
Chicago since 2002, where he teaches undergraduate
photo history and graduate theory seminars in
the Photography Department. He also teaches
graduate courses at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. He has curated six exhibitions at
MOCP, including “Persistence of Vision:
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Rod
previously taught photography, history of photography
and graduate Museum Studies for
12 years at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He was the National Chair of the Society
for Photographic Education from 1990 to 1994. He was
named Honored Educator at the SPE National Conference
in Miami in 2007.
Before and during his time at the University of Washington
he was the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the
Seattle Art Museum for 14 years, producing 35 exhibitions
and numerous catalogs, including “Like a One-Eyed
Cat” in 1989, the first retrospective of Lee
Friedlander.
Rod has an MA in literature and writing from the University
of Iowa. He trained as a graduate intern at the International
Museum of Photography at George Eastman House while
working
on an MFA in Photography and Museum Studies from the
Rochester Institute of Technology,
1976–78.
PhotoSpiva
2008 Juror's Lecture
Presented
in cooperation with the Art Department,
Missouri Southern State University
"Photographers Without
Borders: Medium, Media, Meditation"
Rod Slemmons will discuss
his criteria for
selection and the context of contemporary photography.
2:00 pm Saturday, April 19
Webster Hall Auditorium
Webster Hall
Missouri Southern State University
3850 Newman Road
Joplin, MO 64801
Admission by voluntary contribution.
Reservations requested: 417.623.0183
PhotoSpiva
2008 is presented with financial assistance from the
Joplin Convention
and Visitors Bureau, the Friends of St. Avips, and
the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
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