April 19 – June 1, 2008 PhotoSpiva is open to any photographer in the United States or its territories. www.photospiva.org

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

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: The Career of Paul Berger.”

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.