lizzie cuthbertson

clarissa auxter

juried exhibition opportunity

Call for Entries:

Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition: January 13-February 6, 2009
Texas Woman;s university Fine Arts Gallery.

Juror: Katherine Bussard, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago
Entries due October 25, 2008

About the Juror: Katherine Bussard is currently Assistant Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her BA from Smith College and holds an MA in Art History from Williams College. She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on street photography at the City University of New York.

Prior to assuming her current position in 2004, Bussard worked for the J. Paul Getty Museum, Clark Art Institute, and Guggenheim Museum. At the Art Institute, she has curated exhibitions from the permanent collection on portraiture and socially concerned photographs. Her recurring series On the Scene showcases new talents in the field of contemporary photography. Her 2006 exhibition So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan included nearly 200 works, and she is the author of the accompanying catalogue. She is currently curating a 2009 exhibition of Modern photography from the museum’s collection.

Download Entry Form Here.

Hasselblad 500c for sale

 

-Hasselblad 500c medium format camera that includes

a waist level finder and A12 film magazine back (12 exposures)

-price is $225.00

-in excellent condition but showing a little wear on the

back of the waist level finder

Contact info: holly@hollygraciano.com

clarissa auxter

miguel de leon

f-stop photo competition

The kind folks at f-stop camera shop are holding their first photography contest “viva columbia!” Entries are due October 1.  Get those photos ready!  There is an analog and a digital category.  Prizes for each:

Film Prizes

Grand Prize - 1 month darkroom time, studio lighting kit, & gallery showing at the F-Stop (valued at $500)

3 Runners Up - 10 hours of darkroom time (valued at $100 each)

Honorable Mentions - Displayed at the Viva Film Bash (priceless)

Digital Prizes

Grand Prize - 1 month darkroom time, Nikon N8008 SLR, & gallery showing at the F-Stop (valued at $500)

3 Runners Up - 10 hours of darkroom time plus complimentary instruction (valued at $100)

Honorable Mentions - Displayed at the Viva Film Bash (priceless)

 Visit the f-stop camera shop website for more info.  Download entry form here.

for your reading pleasure

this lovely speech (via the joeg colberg blog) made me swoon:

“The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure. He has, as Frost said, a lover’s quarrel with the world. In pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role. If Robert Frost was much honored in his lifetime, it was because a good many preferred to ignore his darker truths. Yet in retrospect, we see how the artist’s fidelity has strengthened the fibre of our national life.

     If sometimes our great artist have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.

     If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. And as Mr. MacLeish once remarked of poets, there is nothing worse for our trade than to be in style. In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society–in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost’s hired man, the fate of having “nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.”

     I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past, and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

     I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world which will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.”

 President John F. Kennedy, in remarks given at Amherst College, October 26, 1963

photo exhibits abound at 8080

There are several photography shows in the works at Gallery 80808 this season.  Check out the gallery website for a schedule.  

Our own Miguel de Leon will have work included in Skate and Create, which hangs October 3.

photo exhibit opens at McKissick Museum

Minuette Floyd’s “This Far by Faith” opens tonight at the McKissick.  The reception is 5:30 -7:00pm.  Professor Floyd will give an artist’s talk during the reception.  For more info visit the McKissick Museum’s website.