Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael P Smith

Get to know the next SD129 Superintendent of Schools and current Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources, Dr. Michael P. Smith. He joins Superintendent Dr. Jeff Craig for a conversation that spans growing up in Aurora, what inspired him to become an educator, and his 23-year career in School District 129.

Mike Stephen talks with a Chicago Public School teacher Jeff Solin about the district's interpretation of the Student Online Personal Protection Act, discusses Chicago's Black exodus with Anthony Simpkins of the Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, and learns the Secret History of the late folkie Michael P. Smith. And Mike is excited that he was mentioned in the 8-Bit Christmas review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Brandon Thibodeaux is a photographer and educator based in Houston, TX, who creates portraits in the documentary tradition. In addition to his assignment work and creative commissions, he explores life in the American South. He is a guest instructor with the Santa Fe Photographic and Maine Media Workshops, as well as both the Houston and Los Angeles Centers of Photography. His work has been recognized by American Photo Magazine, Photo District News, and the Oxford American lists him as one of their 100 Under 100, New Superstars of Southern Art. His long-term photographic project based in the Mississippi Delta first entitled, When Morning Comes, was awarded Center’s Gallerist Choice Award 2013, AI-AP American Photography 30, the Critical Mass Solo Show Award 2013, the 2014 Michael P. Smith Fund For Documentary Photography Grant and the 2016 Palm Springs Photo Festival Portfolio Review Award. This work, later published as a book by Red Hook Editions in 2017,  under the new title, In That Land of Perfect Day, has been featured by numerous publications including American Photo Magazine, B+W Magazine, Garden &Gun, PDN, Port Magazine, Oxford American, The New York Times, Time.com and The Washington Post.   Websites Brandon Thibodeaux Gareth Phillips   Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Jeremiah Ariaz Jeremiah Ariaz artworks explore the West as both a physical space and a terrain for the imagination. For his most recently completed project, Louisiana Trail Riders he was the recipient of a 2018 ATLAS grant, the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Arts Finalist Prize from South Arts, as well as being named the Louisiana State Fellow. The photographs have been exhibited nationally and a monograph of the work was released last fall by UL Press (2018). His forthcoming project TUCUMCARI is a decade-long work focused on the New Mexico town while providing a window to the country at the time of a changing workforce and increasing economic inequality. The photographs create a portrait of a distinctly American place caught between a vanishing past and an uncertain future. Ariaz is a Professor at Louisiana State University. Homer Joseph Decuir Jr. (center) of Bad Weather Stables Louisiana Trail Riders K-State, Museum installation Louisiana Trail Riders, Jeremiah Ariaz, UL Press, 2018. 

An audio interview of John Lawrence, exhibition curator, broadcast on WLAE’s public affairs program “Greater New Orleans,” about the exhibition In the Spirit: The Photography of Michael P. Smith from The Historic New Orleans Collection