Last updated: 2/29/2020
Daytona Beach, Florida
Street Address
1200 West Int'l Speedway Blvd.Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 2811Daytona Beach, FL 32120
phone: 386-506-3894
e-mail: museum1@DaytonaState.edu
web: www.SMPonline.org

Hours

Regular Hours
Tuesday, Thursday - Friday
11 AM - 5 PM
Wednesday
11 AM - 6 PM
Saturday
1 PM - 5 PM
Sunday - Monday
closed
Closed Daytona 500 Weekend, Easter Weekend, Daytona State College Spring Break, July 4th, Thanksgiving Weekend, and Daytona State College Winter Break

Admissions

Free

Free

Museum Type(s)

Art

Staff

Erin Gordon
phone:
Stephanie Shaw
phone:
Christina Katsolis
phone:
Victoria Camera
phone:
Cheyenne Cannon
phone:
Sue Small-Kreider
phone:
e-mail:
Description

An internationally renowned museum in Daytona Beach. Contemporary and vintage fine art, photojournalism, fashion and new media. Stunning modern galleries, seminars, lectures, workshops. Significant collection. Free gallery admission. Daytona State College main campus.

Mission

The Southeast Museum of Photography exhibits, collects, preserves and interprets photography to facilitate teaching and learning at Daytona State College, and enhances the community's understanding and appreciation of photography.

History

The history of the Southeast Museum of Photography begins when Dan Biferie arrived to teach at Daytona Beach Community College in 1975. Biferie noted that there was no exhibit space on campus for students to show their work, or view the work of others. Back then, the school was oriented toward the practical field of commercial photography, and Biferie found himself introducing DBCC - and the general community - to fine-arts imagery and techniques. He soon arranged for the installation of three cases for the display of photographs in his classroom.

By 1977, Biferie succeeded in convincing DBCC's president, Dr.Charles H. Polk, that a larger, more permanent and appropriate art space was in order. The current, 1,100 square-foot fine arts gallery was carved out of the lobby of the Goddard Center for the Arts. Once he had the necessary space with the requisite standards for showing photographs, Biferie faced his second hurdle: to fill the gallery with top-notch art and create the sort of outstanding photographic program he had envisioned. He now needed to attract the artists whose work he wanted to show and whose ideas and methods he wanted to share with participants.

The gallery acquired its first photograph in 1978 when internationally renowned photographic artist Jerry Uelsmann donated one of his images. This was followed by gifts from other artists. A grant fro the National Endowment for the Arts and gifts from noted collectors spurred the Gallery's budding collection, and in 1992, the Southeast Museum of Photography officially opened its doors. The museum is now one of only 13 facilities in the US dedicated exclusively to photography, and one of only a handful of such institutions nationally that share a scope, reach, and depth of collection and activities in this specific field.

Educational Programs

Exhibitions, community workshops, gallery tours, lectures, artist talks, film screenings, roundtable discussions, panel talks, conferences, symposia.

Facilities
Auditoriums
Governance

State College

Services
Gift Shop
Group Tours
ADA

Second floor gallery accessible by elevator.

Wheelchair Accessible
Parking
Restrooms
Exhibitions
Museum Events
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MUSEUM CONFERENCES

Museum Trustee Association Spring Forum 2024

April 10 - 14, 2024

Atlanta, Georgia

Texas Association of Museums 2024 Lubock Annual Conference

April 14 - 17, 2024

Lubbock, Texas

2024 Colorado-Wyoming ANNUAL MEETING

May 1 - 4, 2024

Worland, Wyoming

West Virginia Association of Museums 2024 Conference

June 6 - 8, 2024

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

RECENT UPDATES

Museum Vendors

02/18 Tessellate

New York City, New York

10/30 Museum Fabrication Group, LLC

Denton, Texas

03/07 ConservArt Inc.

Boca Raton, Florida

Museum Associations

03/07 South Carolina Federation of Museums

Columbia, South Carolina