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BOAAT Press | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Rachael Banks, for being selected as a finalist for the BOAAT Press 2015 Photography Competition. Images from Between Home and Here will be featured in the July / August Issue with Camilo Ramirez and Yorgos Efthymiadis.

Rachael Banks is a Louisville, KY native who is living and working in Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University and Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

A Certain Displacement, Cliff Gallery | Kristina Smith and Ashley Whitt

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumnae, Kristina Smith and Ashley Whitt, for their group exhibition, A Certain Displacement, in Cliff Gallery at Mountain View College. The exhibition is June 15 – August 7, 2015, with a reception on June 20, 2015, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

A Certain Displacement:
Rachel Rushing, Kristina Smith, and Ashley Whitt

Exhibition: June 15 – August 7, 2015

Reception: Saturday June 20, 2015 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

A Certain Displacement is a collaborative project between three emerging North Texas artists: Rachel Rushing, Kristina Smith, and Ashley Whitt. Each artist explores transitory states of being related to their shared experiences of commuting, collaborating, working, and living across multiple social geographies. Through the investigation of place and identity, this project encompasses video and a combination of historical and contemporary photographic processes to create installations that invite viewers to become immersed in surreal, disorienting environments.

The title specifically references the experience of being an adjunct instructor in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. Contemporary higher education is undergoing great scrutiny, in part due to the still-recent economic recession of 2008. With external pressures pushing against rising tuition costs, much of America is now re-examining the value of higher education and the cost of attendance. As a result of this examination, new light is being shed on those in instructional positions. According to the American Association of University Professors, as much as 76% of faculty across all types of institutions are adjunct, or contingent, faculty.

As members of the group of 76%, these three artists use a variety of photographic processes to explore their circumstances. Processes: this word refers to chemical, mechanical, or digital changes occurring. It also refers to a compulsion found in each artist to work through, to operate in a way that meets their pragmatic needs and simultaneously fulfills their personal creative practices. Processes become rituals to make sense of a lifestyle that is often overwhelming, unpredictable, and ultimately contingent.

http://www.mountainviewcollege.edu/Academics/acaddivisions/Ahss/arts/Pages/artgallery.aspx

A World Imagined, Silver Eye Center for Photography | Kelli Connell

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Kelli Connell, for having her work included in a two person exhbition, A World Imagined. The exhibition is at Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA, from April 3 – June 13, 2015. There is an closing reception Saturday, June 13, 2015, at 6:00 PM.

Exhibition: April 3 – June 13, 2015

Closing Reception: Saturday, June 13, 2015 | 6:00 PM

A World Imagined features the work of Kelli Connell (Chicago, IL) and Sara Macel (Brooklyn, NY) who each explore the emotional and psychological terrain of personal relationships. Each artists’ projects offer opportunities to reflect on authorship, on photographic construction, and on ways in which we define relationships through our subjective experiences of them. Kelli Connell’s photographs in Double Life invent a relationship that visualizes, through digital manipulations, questions around intimacy and identity; Sara Macel’s May the Road Rise to Meet You is a collaborative examination of her relationship with her father at the end of his career.

The exhibition is organized by Leo Hsu, adjunct professor, Carnegie Mellon University, writer, and photographer, and David Oresick, Executive Director, Silver Eye Center for Photography.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kelli Connell’s (b. 1974) body of work entitled Double Life has been widely received and included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Microsoft, The Haggerty Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Dallas Museum of Art. Publications include MP3: Midwest Photographers’ Publication Project (Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography), Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (Phaidon) and Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture). Connell’s first full-length monograph entitled Kelli Connell: Double Life was released by DECODE Books in August 2011.

Sara Macel (b. 1981) received her MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and her BFA in Photography + Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003. Her work has been internationally exhibited and is in various private collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, and the Center of Photography at Woodstock. Her recent honors include Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward, Top 50 Photographer’s in Photolucida’s Critical Mass Award, and she was named a winner in the New York Photo Festival. In 2012, Sara received the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant from the Aaron Siskind Foundation. Her first monograph, May the Road Rise to Meet You, was published by Daylight Books in 2013, and a traveling exhibition of that work was shown in solo shows in 2014 at the Center for Photography in Woodstock and the Houston Center for Photography before coming to Silver Eye. She recently self-published a book of her series titled Kiss & Tell. In addition to her freelance work, Sara currently teaches photography at SUNY Rockland and was an artist-in-residence at The Wassaic Project in upstate New York.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Leo Hsu is an instructor in the photography program at Carnegie Mellon University, and holds a PhD in Anthropology and a Certificate in the Program in Culture and Media from New York University. His writings appear in the online magazine Fraction (fractionmagazine.com). His previous collaborations with Silver Eye Center for Photography include HomeFrontLine: Reflections on 10 Years of War Since 9/11 (2011) and No Job No Home No Peace No Rest: An Installation by Will Steacy (2012).

CLOSING RECEPTION

Talk-tails: Closing Reception for A World Imagined
WHEN: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Join us for a casual evening of photography and cocktails. A World Imagined curator Leo Hsu will be here to talk about the work of Kelli Connell and Sara Macel, while guiding guests through the exhibition and inspiration behind the work. Sip on a delicious cocktail generously provided by Pittsburgh’s own Wigle Whiskey and enjoy this last chance to see A World Imagined. A closing reception for the exhibition will follow the talk.
Suggested donation $5.00

Float Photo Magazine | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Rachael Banks, for having her series, Between Home and Here, featured on Float Photo Magazine, an online photography magazine. Take a look at the feature here.

“Float magazine was launched in March 2014 with the first issue “Into the Wild”. Float was created by Dana Stirling & Yoav Friedlander in the hopes of creating a new, fresh and young look at today’s Photography scene. We hope to create issues that will motivate us and others in creating new images and art. Inspire one another and share our creations with people all over the globe. Bringing together well-known photographers as well as young artists to have them share and learn in order to offers opportunities for exposure and community. We are a non-profit magazine, working in the online scene. Located in queens NYC.”

Rachael Banks is a Louisville, KY native who is living and working in Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University and Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

365 Artists 365 Days Project | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Rachael Banks, for being interviewed by 365 Artists 365 Days Project. Take a look at the interview here.

Rachael is a Louisville, KY native who is living and working in Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University and Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

ArtCon SKEWED | Sheryl Anaya

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Sheryl Anaya, for having an artist profile featured by ArtCon in conjunction with their SKEWED Art Auction. To view the interview, click here.

Sheryl completed her BFA in Photography and Sculpture at Texas Woman’s University in 2013. She is currently a Member of 500x Gallery and the Editorial Assistant for Light Leaked, an online photography journal.

Haaretz Photography Blog | Allison Jarek

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Congratulations to Allison Jarek for having her series, Hallowed Ground, featured on Haaretz Photography Blog. To view this feature, visit http://www.haaretz.co.il.

Allison received her BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in the spring of 2011 and recently completed her MFA in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.

Call for Entry | LensCulture Emerging Talent 2015

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Due: June 30, 2015

LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards 2015 is their 3rd annual call to discover the world’s best emerging photographers. Their international jury will select 50 outstanding emerging photographers — from all cultures, all points of view, with no age limit.

LensCulture invites you to enter one of the best opportunities for career-changing exposure to their global audience of over 1.4 million, worldwide recognition, an exhibition in San Francisco, projections at photo festivals worldwide, $20,000 in grants, and much more.

Find out more here.

Exhibition Proposal | Vermont Center for Photography

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Due: July 1, 2015
Exhibition Proposal | Vermont Center for PhotographyPropose an Exhibit

Any photographers – members and non-members alike are strongly encouraged to submit a proposal for a future solo or group exhibition at VCP. Exhibits run from the first Friday of each month to the Sunday prior to the NEXT first-Friday. VCP considers all types of styles and subject matter for exhibition. We encourage collaboration and are willing to entertain alternative presentations and installations.Please fill out and submit the form below. Once received, we will send a notice via email stating so.Important Dates:
July 1, 2015:  Deadline for Proposal Submissions for 2016
August 1, 2015:  Notifications Sent via Email
September 1, 2015:  If accepted, a signed contract and your $250 Exhibition Fee is due by this date.

BEFORE filling out the form below, please CLICK HERE to read our general exhibition policies and guidelines.

To view a floor plan of our gallery exhibition space online, CLICK HERE.

Call for Proposals | SPESC 2015 Regional Conference

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Due: June 1, 2015

SPESC welcomes proposals for the 2015 SPE South Central Regional Conference:

Spheres of Influence
University of Oklahoma and OKC Museum of Art
September 24 – 26, 2015
Conference Chair: Alex Emmons

Proposals can be for individual presentations, collaborators, workshops and panels from member photographers, writers,
educators, curators, historians, professionals and students. Topics are not required to be theme-based, and may include
but are not limited to, image-making, history, contemporary theory and criticism, multidisciplinary approaches and new
technologies, and presentations of work in photography, film, video, performance and installation.

Requirements:
1/2 to 1 page abstract, preferably in pdf form. Include title, AV needs, space concerns and CV for each presenter.

Minimum of 5 image(s) but no more than 10, if important to the proposal, sized to 1200 pixels on the long side at 100
ppi and saved as a jpg as Lastname_#.jpg. If selected, you will be asked to submit a higher quality representative image
for the conference program

Please send proposals to:
okc2015spesc@yahoo.com no later than June 1st with “2015 SPESC Conference Proposal” as the subject.

Spheres of Influence
Oklahoma City rests at the intersection of many highways that cross the continental US. OKC is known for Boomers and
Sooners, sunsets, beauty queens, red dirt, tornado alley, and a capital with an oil derrick on site. The variety contained
promotes why the locality of Oklahoma City is the perfect place to explore how we identify and reflect on the many
guiding “forces” impacting our creative lives. All of us are affected by a variety of influences from history, culture,
identity, geography, politics, scientific discovery, mentors, and experience to name some. This conference hopes to
address how these spheres of influence impact us as artists, educators, and students and how this manifests in our
photography as discovery, investigations, and recording in our worlds.

The conference organizers look forward to seeing your proposals!