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Film Screening | Miss Representation

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Miss Representation at Texas Woman’s University
Thursday, March 26th, at 6:00 p.m. CFO 203
Film Screening: Miss Representation w/ Director Ms. Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Miss Representation reveals the betrayal of women in the media. The film demonstrates how society is misguided by media content, which generally highlights the mere physical attributes and nurturing abilities of women, but limits recognition of their intellectual capabilities. The film also uncovers how successful women in various careers are still deprived of respect and recognition for their achievements in comparison to the male gender.  Miss Representation will leave the audience thinking of the many opportunities our world could be deprived of if women’s endeavors continue to go unsupported or underrepresented.

Join our guest speaker; film Director, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, as she discusses Miss Representation and its efforts to raise awareness about stamping out inequality and discrimination. The event is sponsored by Commuter Services and Lasso 100th in celebration of Women in the Media and International Women’s Day.

Follow the link to the Miss Representation trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2UZZV3xU6Q.

Call for Proposals | Filter Photo, Filter Space

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Due: April 13, 2015

Filter Photo is pleased to announce an open call for exhibition proposals for Filter Space, the organization’s new, permanent gallery! We welcome photographic proposals of all types, whether traditional or experimental, or coming from an emerging curator or a veteran artist. Filter Photo hopes to attract a broad range of proposals the reflect the creative diversity of the contemporary photographic community.

Accepted proposals will receive:

• A 4 to 6 week exhibition at Filter Space to take place between July of 2015 and June of 2016

• An online gallery on Filter Photo’s website featuring exhibited artwork

• At least 1 exhibition reception, with refreshments provided

• The opportunity to host an event in conjunction with the exhibition (e.g. a workshop or artist’s talk)

• Exhibition marketing including printed postcards, an email to Filter Photo’s list, coverage on Image 37 (Filter Photo’s blog),
and other social media promotion

• A small stipend to help cover exhibition costs (variable—for more information click here)

• A discount of 10% for all exhibition artwork produced through LATITUDE, a nonprofit digital lab that adjoins Filter Space

For more information take a look at the website here.

Dodho Magazine | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Rachael Banks for having her series, Between Home and Here, featured on Dodho, an online photography magazine. Take a look at the feature here.

Rachael is a Louisville, KY native and MFA photography candidate at Texas Woman’s University with an expected graduation date of May 2015. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

Opportunity Calendar | Women’s Studio Workshop

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Women's Studio Workshop

Women’s Studio Workshop has an artist-centered philosophy and a deep commitment to the individual’s creative process. We support this vision through providing time and space in the form of grants, residencies and internships where artists-in-residence can come to work with 24-hour access to the studios.

Opportunity Calendar:

March 15

April 1
October 15
Nov 15

Ongoing

Click here for more information.

Crusade Engagement Grant | Crusade for Art

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Due: April 17, 2015

The Crusade Engagement Grant awards $10,000 annually to the applicant with the most innovative idea to build audiences for photography.

Crusade for Art develops and supports innovative initiatives to create demand for art and opportunities to collect it. The Crusade Engagement Grant puts our greatest resource, the brainpower of our creative force, our artists, toward exploring solutions to the systemic problem of a lack of demand for art. This $10,000 grant aims to generate and highlight innovations and underwrite the execution of the best idea.

To read more about the grant guidelines and what we’re looking for in a project, click here.

To view last year’s ten finalist ideas and read about the winning project, click here.

The three members of the 2015 selection committee are Alison Zavos (Founder/Editor-in-Chief, Feature Shoot), Brian Sholis (Associate Curator of Photography, Cincinnati Museum of Art), and Ann Jastrab, Gallery Director, RAYKO Photo Center of San Francisco

Submission deadline is April 17.

APPLY NOW!
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Crusade for Art is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to engage
new audiences with art. Our work is about developing and supporting innovative
initiatives that create demand for art and opportunities to collect it..

http://www.crusadeforart.org

Lecture Series | Tuesday Evenings at the Modern

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This popular series of lectures by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public.

Lectures begin at 7 pm. To assure seating, two free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern’s admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250. A live broadcast of the lectures is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests.

Café Modern serves cocktails, salads, and appetizers on Tuesday nights until 7 pm during the lecture series.

  • March 17—Tom Sachs, an influential sculptor best known for elaborate re-creations of various modernist icons in masterpieces of engineering and design, presents the work and ideas that have garnered him such renown.
  • March 24—Emily Jacir is a professor at the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah and an artist whose work—including film, photography, social interventions, installation, performance, video, writing, and sound—has been recognized with significant exhibitions and awards, including a Golden Lion and a Hugo Boss Prize.
  • March 31—Philip-Lorca diCorcia, known for creating images poised between documentary and theatrically staged photography, discusses his photographic work in which everyday occurrences are taken beyond the realm of banality and seemingly insignificant gestures are infused with psychology and emotion.
  • April 7—Mario García Torres, a Mexico City–based conceptual artist who addresses the ways in which art and information are constructed over time, is in conversation with Modern curator Alison Hearst, who organized FOCUS: Mario García Torres.
  • April 14—Sina Najafi is editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine and the editorial director of Cabinet Books. He has curated or co-curated a number of exhibitions and projects, including “Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates,” the subject of this presentation.
  • April 21—Laurie Simmons, a New York–based artist renowned since the mid-1970s for staged black-and-white photographs referencing domestic scenes and most recently for life-size color photographs of kigurumi (Japanese costume play), shares her experiences and the development of her work.

Call for Entry | 35th Annual Spring Photography Contest

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Due: April 13, 2015 (Early Entry Date)
         May 18, 2015 (Final Entry Date)
35th Annual Spring Photography Contest | presented by Photographer’s Forum Magazine and sponsored by SIGMA

EARLY ENTRY Date: APRIL 13, 2015
Early entry fee is $4.95 per photo entered
(uploaded/postmarked on or before
end of day April 13, 2015 EST)

FINAL ENTRY Date: MAY 18, 2015
Final entry fee is $5.95 per photo entered
(uploaded/postmarked on or before
end of day May 18, 2015 EST)

Enter Online at: www.PFMagazine.com/photography-contest/

To Enter Prints or Slides by Mail, Download Entry Form: http://www.PFMagazine.com/contest.pdf
PRIZES :: OVER $7,500 IN CASH & EQUIPMENT

FIRST PLACE GRAND PRIZE
$2,000 cash award from Photographer’s Forum magazine plus…
• Sigma 35mm 1.4 DG HSM | Art lens ($899)*
• Chimera OB2 PRO Kit #6024 (Octa 2 Beauty Dish reflector and Versi Octa Speed Ring) ($399)

SECOND PLACE
$1,500 cash award from Photographer’s Forum magazine plus…
• Sigma 18-35mm 1.8 DC HSM | ART lens ($800)*
• Manfrotto Pro Light Camera Backpack: Bumblebee-220 PL ($279)

THIRD PLACE
$1,000 cash award from Photographer’s Forum magazine

FOURTH PLACE
Five $125 cash awards

100 HONORABLE MENTIONS
All Honorable Mentions will be listed in the November 2015 issue ofPhotographer’s Forum magazine and will receive a gold embossed certificate of outstanding merit from Photographer’s Forum.

* Lens award for US residents only. First and Second Place winners in all other countries will receive additional award of $500 in lieu of lens.

ENTRY GIFT: 2 FREE ISSUES OF PHOTOGRAPHER’S FORUM MAGAZINE $10 Value – Just for Entering!
(U.S. and Canada only)

WINNING PHOTOS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE NOVEMBER 2015 ISSUE OF PHOTOGRAPHER’S FORUMMAGAZINE AND EXHIBITED AT BROOKS INSTITUTE. ALL CONTEST FINALISTS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE BOOK BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2015.

2015 SPE Combined Caucus Exhibit | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Rachael Banks for having her photographs, Meet me Here and Michael Watches, selected by Deborah Willis and Carol McCusker, jurors for the exhibition, to be included in the 2015 SPE Combined Caucus Exhibit at the New Orleans Photo Alliance / Ogden Museum of South in New Orleans, LA. Exhibition dates are March 12 – April 5, 2015.

Exhibition Dates: March 12 – April 5, 2015.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 2015 | 8:00 – 10:00 PM

Rachael is a Louisville, KY native and MFA photography candidate at Texas Woman’s University with an expected graduation date of May 2015. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

Call for Entry | Black & White 2015

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Due: April 1, 2015 
Black & White 2015 | The Center for Fine Art Photography
Juror: Roy L. Flukinger

Juror:
As Senior Research Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Center, Flukinger assists in the development, administration and application of the collections. He has and continues to lecture and publish extensively in such fields as regional, cultural and contemporary photography, and the history of art and photography. He has produced nearly 50 exhibitions ranging from classical photohistory to contemporary photography, and from photographers’ retrospectives to American/regional/Texas photography. He serves as juror, reviewer and evaluator for contemporary photographic events, institutions and support organizations, as well as aiding in the development and expansion of the Photography Department. Flukinger serves as liaison for the department with fellow professionals worldwide throughout the field of photography.

Honors | Awards:
Juror’s Selection: $500.00
Director’s Selection: $250.00
Two LiveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks
Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and a three image submission for an upcoming call for entry.
Two Samy’s Camera Certificates value $50.00 each

For More Information about the Black & White Call For Entries, click here.

SPESC Student Scholarship | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Rachael Banks for being awarded a SPESC Student Scholarship to attend the 2015 SPE National Conference in New Orleans, LA.

Rachael is a Louisville, KY native and MFA photography candidate at Texas Woman’s University with an expected graduation date of May 2015. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.