Teaching Award:
Overview
About
The Excellence in Teaching Award honors a high school, college or postgraduate teacher’s dedication. Educators in all areas of photographic teaching are eligible, including fine art, documentary, history and criticism.
Criteria
- Educators need to have a genuine passion for teaching
- An ability to excite students to learn
- A respect for students as individuals
- An enduring artistic curiosity
2012 Nominees
First Place
| Stephan Hillerbrand | University of Houston, Houston, TX |
Honorable Mention
| Allan deSouza | San Francisco Art Insitute & UC Berkeley, CA |
| Aline Smithson | The Julia Dean Photo Workshops, Los Angeles, CA |
Honored Candidates
| Ernesto Bazan | Veracruz, Mexico |
| Bruno Chalifour | Community Darkroom, Rochester, NY |
| Mark Eshbaugh | Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA |
| James Henkel | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN |
| Celia Jackson | University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom |
| Gary Knight | Tufts University, Medford, MA |
| Forest McMullin | Savannah College of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA |
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Becky Olstad |
Art Institute, Denver, CO |
| Sean Perry | School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
| Janet Pritchard | University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT |
| Marc Prust | Speos Photographic Institute, Paris, France |
| Satoru Watanabe | 2B Workshops, Tokyo, Japan |
| Jim West | Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, CA |
On our first day back to class, Stephan puts on an episode of the French Chef with Julia Child. We watch as she makes an awkward attempt to flip her potato pancake. She completely misses, scoops it all back up and attempts the flip again, this time with success. We cheer, and after a few minutes, Voilà: a golden brown pancake ready to enjoy, and therein lies Stephan’s lesson of the day. He links Julia Child's experience in the kitchen, and her unyielding, unabashed confidence in the face of utter failure, to our own artistic practices.
Teaching Award winner's student
Brittney Connelly, The University of Houston, Alumni 2012
First Place
$3,000 Award
Complimentary participation in the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) National Conference, Chicago, IL
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