2nd International Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition:
Women's, Multicultural, and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Caucuses
© Jess Dugan
About This Exhibition:
VASA is pleased to announce the Society for Photographic Education’s 2nd International SPE Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition.
The local exhibition was organized in conjunction with the 2014 SPE National Conference, “Collaborative Exchanges: Photography in Dialogue.” The exhibition was held at Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, Maryland. The physical exhibition ran concurrently with the SPE annual national conference on March 3rd to 9th 2014. The work in the exhibition reflected the diversity of the three caucuses: Women's, Multicultural, and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ). (For further information on the caucuses’ missions, please visit www.spenational.org/about/caucuses)
Above video: Liz Allen, 2013-14 Chair Women's Caucus
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VASA is an online center for media studies with a focus on photography and digital media arts. VASA supports a number of programs including the VASA Journal on Images and Culture and a dynamic exhibition program.
The invited co-jurors were Catherine Lord and Leslie King-Hammond.
Leslie King-Hammond is Graduate Dean Emeritus and Founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at Maryland Institute College of Art. An artist and scholar of distinction, she has won a NEA artist grant as a member of the "Girls of Baltimore" in 2001. Her curatorial efforts and major exhibitions are numerous and she has won Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Studio Museum in Harlem (2002) among others. In 2008, she was granted an Andy Warhol Curatorial Fellowship. Click here for more information about Dr. King-Hammond's numerous achievements. Click here for more information about Dr. King-Hammond's numerous achievements.
Catherine Lord, Emerita Professor of Art at UC Irvine, is a distinguished writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. She is the author of numerous texts and experimental narratives including Art and Queer Culture (Phaidon Press, 2013). Her curated exhibitions include "Pervert," "Trash," and “Gender, fucked.” Her work as a visual artist has been shown widely and her list of accomplishments include being named the 2010 recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal as well as many major fellowships.
Click here for more information about Dr. Lord's many achievements.
The VASA online exhibition builds upon the physical exhibition by adding video, individual portfolios, essays, and other supportive materials. VASA and SPE are cooperatively publishing a free and downloadable an e-catalog.
VASA Exhibition curators:
Coriana Close (Multicultural Caucus Chair, SPE) and Roberto Muffoletto (Director, VASA)
Download e-catalog
e-catalog design by Alan Charlesworth (LGBTQ Caucus Northeast Regional Representative, SPE)
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