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Author Archives: deedrabakerphotography
Call for Entry | The Feminine Bond
Due: April 15, 2016
Special exhibitions: “The Feminine Bond”
Streit House Space
We invite you to submit a selection of three images that explore the notion of the feminine bond. Women bond through familial relations, age, sexual orientation, race, and marital status. This nexus provides support for one another and consists of traditions, rituals, and connections. Show us how you have captured “The Feminine Bond” in your photographic works.
Juror: Deedra Baker
Deedra Baker is a photographer and book artist currently based in Denton, TX. Her work and research focuses on themes of adolescence, femininity, identity, and sexuality. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, from Washburn University in Topeka, KS, where she was the recipient of numerous honors, such as the Charles and Margaret Pollak Award and Sibberson Award. She is currently working toward a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts with a Photography Concentration and Intermedia Secondary Concentration at Texas Woman’s University. Selections from her body of work have been featured nationally in exhibitions and publications including, Chowan University National Juried Exhibition, Light Leaked, PhotoSpiva National Photographic Competition and Exhibition, and Voyeur: Repositioning the Gaze.
Send 3 images (jpegs) as attachments to streithousespace@gmail.com with the subject line “The Feminine Bond.”
300dpi, sized at 1500px on the longest side.
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Submissions deadline is April 15th
Selected artists will be notified shortly after the deadline.
Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines will not be considered.
Light Leaked Interviews | Joy Ellis and Deedra Baker
Congratulations! Light Leaked features interviews with TWU 15th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition Graduate student co-coordinators. Joy Ellis interviews Dr. Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography and the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum http://www.lightleaked.com/2016/02/curator-dr-rebecca-senf.html. Deedra Baker interviews JEG solo show artist, Sharon Lee Hart, http://www.lightleaked.com/2016/02/sharon-lee-hart.html.
Joy graduated with her BFA from the University of Texas, Arlington and currently attends Texas Woman’s University to obtain an MFA in Art with a concentration in photography and secondary concentration in intermedia.
Deedra received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, from Washburn University in Topeka, KS. She is currently working toward a Master of Fine Arts in Art with a Photography Concentration and Intermedia Secondary Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.
Call for Entry | 36th Annual Spring Photography Contest
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The Landscape Redefined, Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art | Kalee Appleton
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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna Kalee Appleton for having work in group exhibition, The Landscape Redefined at Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art in Dallas, TX. The exhibition runs from February 20 to March 26, 2016.
Exhibition Dates: February 20 – March 26, 2016
Opening Reception: February 20, 2016
Additional artists exhibiting will be Sherry Giryotas and Gwen Davidson.
Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art is located at 1415 Slocum Street in the Dallas Design District. Gallery hours are Noon to 5:00 pm, Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment.
Kalee is a photography-based artist and educator living in Dallas, Texas. Originally from Hobbs, NM, she attended Texas Tech University and received a BFA in Photography in 2005. Shortly after graduated she worked as a commercial corporate and aviation photographer before attending Texas Woman’s University, where she received an MFA in Photography in 2014.
Next Chapter: 154 Glass Street | PDNB Gallery
Gallery view by Don Netzer
THE NEXT CHAPTER: 154 GLASS STREET
Exhibition Dates: February 27 – April 23, 2016
Artists Reception: Saturday, February 27, 2016 | 5 – 8 PM
THE NEXT CHAPTER: 154 GLASS STREET
February 27 – April 23, 2016
Artists Reception:
Saturday, February 27, 2016 from 5 – 8 pm
For Immediate Release, Dallas, TX –
PDNB Gallery celebrates their new gallery location with a group exhibition of gallery artists. This show is dedicated to their creative spirit. Without their courageous imagination, we would not be celebrating our Next Chapter. Many of the artists will be attending the opening reception, including Bill Owens (California), Keith Carter
(Beaumont), Peter Brown (Houston), Philip Lamb (Dallas), Stuart Allen (San Antonio),William Greiner (Louisiana) and Bill Kennedy (Austin). The list of artists attending is increasing each day.
The Glass Street space is larger, with a dynamic ground floor gallery space, which leads upstairs to another gallery level. The location is west of Riverfront Blvd., across the street from The Dallas Contemporary. Other art galleries in the neighborhood west of Riverfront include Cris Worley, Holly Johnson, Circuit 12, SITE 131, and Sun to Moon Gallery.
Look for the large neon Playboy Bunny logo (by Richard Phillips) on Riverfront and Glass Street. PDNB Gallery is located nearby.
Artists included in this exhibition:
Bill Owens, Bill Kennedy, William Greiner, Paul Greenberg, Delilah Montoya, Michael Kenna, Kevin Horan, Chema Madoz, Jock Sturges, Jack Ridley, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Don Schol, Jimmy & Dena Katz, Chris Verene, Jesse Alexander, Jesús Moroles, David Graham, Carlotta Corpron, Esteban Pastorino Diaz, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Keith Carter, Barbara Maples, Ida Lansky, Al Satterwhite, George Krause, Nickolas Muray, Neal Slavin, John Albok, Wu Jialin, Stewart Cohen, Mariana Yampolsky, Philip Lamb, Morris Engle, Harold Feinstein, Mario Algaze, Jan van Leeuwen, John Herrin, Stuart Allen,
Peter Brown, Geof Kern and more.
Call for Entry | THE FENCE 2016
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