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Mission Statement The School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa's mission is to furnish the resources, environment, tools and instruction to develop the students' signature style, hone their photographic skills, and cultivate their visual literacy. Motto Vision, Content and Craft.  SPAO was created to deliver intensive photographic training. The SPAO Portfolio Program full-time curriculum is portfolio driven and designed with the committed student of photography in mind. Part-Time Studies courses and workshops offered are geared to many levels of experience, but still share an intensity of concentration, and emphasis on craft and execution, with the full-time program. The SPAO Portfolio Program is two years long with an optional invitational third year. It seamlessly blends traditional and contemporary techniques in a unique, intimate atmosphere. Admitted students enjoy a 1:3.5 teacher student ratio with personalized instruction, and extended access to the SPAO workspaces. The program teaches through practical experience, and instills in its students a rigorous craft ethic, while they develop an understanding of their own creative process. Courses, Workshops, Safaris and Master Classes are offered at SPAO year-round in its Part-Time Studies program. Instruction is geared to various levels of experience, (basic, intermediate and master), and class sizes are small to ensure personal attention. Three sessions of courses are available each year: Winter, Spring/Summer and Autumn. Part-Time Studies Certificates are available to part-time students who wish to add structure and goals to their self-directed studies and successfully complete a prescribed course of study. The SPAO Part Time Studies Certificate is an entirely separate entity from the full-time SPAO Portfolio Program. Courses and workshops are not transferable between the part-time and full-time programs. |
Directors, Faculty and Part-time Instructors The two directors of the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa, are Michael Tardioli and Khalia Scott. Both have strong academic, professional and artistic backgrounds in photography. CBC Radio Interview, Michael and Khalia on All in a Day with Adrian Harewood. 
All instructors in both the faculty of the SPAO Portfolio Program and teaching the Part-time Studies Workshops and Courses are working artists and/or professionals who have distinguished themselves in their fields. SPAO's teachers are actively connected to the photographic world and instruct specifically from their personal knowledge base, with a generosity and personal attention exclusive to the SPAO atmosphere. SPAO Portfolio Program Instructor Biographies Part-Time Studies Program Instructor Biographies The School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa also regularly invites professionals and recognized artists as guest lecturers to provide intensive workshops and seminars on their areas of expertise and bodies of work.  Board of Directors The School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa was founded in 2005 as a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to photo education, Ontario Corporation Number 1668750. The school's six-member Board of Directors meets quarterly and is headed by Jean Fortier. SPAO Board Members and Biographies |
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