Fraction Magazine Issue 72 | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Rachael Banks for having her series, Between Home and Here, featured by David Bram, Editor-in-Chief, in Issue 72 of Fraction Magazine. Please take a moment to view her 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.

Light Sensitive 2015 | Deedra Baker

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Congratulations to Deedra Baker for having her artwork, Wayne Got Me a Cake and Balloon, selected by Robert Hirsch, juror for the exhibition, to be included in Light Sensitive 2015. The exhibition is at Art Intersection in Gilbert, AZ. Exhibition dates are March 7 – April 18, 2015.

Exhibition Dates: March 7 – April 18, 2015.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM

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 Visual Arts with a Photography Concentration and Intermedia Secondary Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.

Call for Entry | The Curator, PDN

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Due: March 26, 2015
The Curator Exhibition | PDN

$3,500 Cash Prize

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Six winners will be selected to exhibit their fine-art photography in a group show with an opening reception this summer in New York City. The Curator exhibition has previously been hosted by Industria Superstudio, Industrial Color and Milk Studios.

The winners will also be published in a gallery in the July issue of PDN and an extended online gallery.

March 26, 2015

Portraits
Still Lifes
Abstract/Mixed Media
Landscapes
Urban Scenes
Student Work

To be announced.

$45 for single and series (2 to 6 images)*
* Please note that a series must be visually related and is limited to six images.

30% Discount with a Membership

For more information and details, click here.

Apply | March Opportunities

March Opportunities

Call for Entry:

  • Emerging Photographer | Due: March 5, 2015
    PDN
  • Still Life: The Inanimate Subject | Due: March 15, 2015
    MPLS Photo Center
    Juror: Russel Joslin
  • Travellers | Due: March 19, 2015
    Blank Wall Gallery
  • The Curator Exhibition | Due: March 26, 2015
    PDN

Internships:

  • DMA McDermott Internships | Due: March 13, 2015
    Dallas Museum of Art

Focus: The Portrait, Black Box Gallery | Madeline Potter

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Congratulations to Madeline Potter for having her artwork, Unhinge, selected by Amy Arbus, juror for the exhibition, to be included in the Focus: The Portrait. The exhibition is at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR. Madeline’s work will be featured on the On-line Annex Exhibition.

Exhibition Dates: March 1 – 20, 2015

Opening Reception: Friday March 6, | 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Madeline currently attends Texas Woman’s University working on her BFA in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration.

Existential Virtuality, Dallas Medianale | McKinney Avenue Contemporary

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On Saturday, February 28, 2015, the Dallas Medianale will present its grand finale at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, curated by Carolyn Sortor.

The program, titled Existential Virtuality, comprises two blocks – one of which will screen twice (yielding 3 screening start times) – comprising exciting, recent works by internationally-known artists.

The longer block comprises a number of shorter pieces, including the video that won Laure Prouvost the Turner Prize in 2013 and a piece by Cécile B. Evans just reviewed in this month’s ArtForum, among other works.  This block will screen twice, first at 5:45pm and then again at 8:15pm.

The shorter block consists of a single, 30-min. video by My Barbarian, which was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and which will screen at 7:15pm.

The full line-up is provided below.  You can also find the updated programme here.

McDermott Internships | Dallas Museum of Art

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Due: March 13, 2015
Dallas Museum of Art – McDermott Internships

Synopsis:

Each year the Dallas Museum of Art offers nine paid internship positions—four in the Museum’s Education Department and five in the Curatorial Department—open to individuals with undergraduate or graduate degrees who are interested in exploring museum careers.

Established in 1974, the McDermott Internship Program allows Interns to work closely with staff throughout the Museum and provides opportunities for individual contributions, resulting in an in-depth and well-rounded perspective on museum work. In addition to their daily Museum duties that comprise a full time work week, McDermott Interns are also able to explore Dallas’s rich cultural scene through performances, museum visits, and collection tours arranged by the Museum. Interns are also able to request $500 toward qualified professional development to be completed during their tenure.

Application Deadline: Mar. 13, 2015

The official announcement and description of this opportunity may be found on the funding agency’s website: http://dallasmuseumofart.org/AboutUs/Internships/index.htm

Call for Entry | Still Life: The Inanimate Subject

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Due: March 15, 2015
Still Life: The Inanimate Subject | MPLS Photo Center
Juror: Russel Joslin
JURIED BY “SHOT’S MAGAZINE” PUBLISHER RUSSELL JOSLIN
This call for entry focuses on the depiction of inanimate subject matter, traditionally referred to as still life. More than other genres of photography, still life gives photographers greater latitude in achieving their final vision through the arrangement of objects and composition of design elements. Juror Russell Joslin also welcomes entries that expand or challenge what “still life” photography is, or can be.

Call  Opens: January 29th

Cost for Entry: $35 first 5 images, $10 each additional

Image Requirements: sRGB or RGB color space (standard); 72 ppi resolution; flatten layers 8 bit; 1280 pixels on the longest side; JPG format, compression level 8 (medium).

Submitting Your Entries: Submit MPC Online  Tool, Smarter Entry (https://client.smarterentry.com/MplsPhotoCenter)

Call Closes: March 15th

Prize & Awards: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200 and Three Honorable Mentions Awards of a full-color exhibition book. The book includes all images selected by our juror and those that will be exhibited throughout the Mpls Photo Center Galleries.

Juror: Russell Joslin

Juror Results: March 26th

Accepted Images: All accepted images  will be exhibited throughout the Mpls Photo Center Galleries and published in a full-color exhibit book for purchase at $39.95.

Russell Joslin has worked primarily in photography beginning in the early 90s. His work has been internationally published and exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. In addition to being a photographer, he is the Editor & Publisher of SHOTS Magazine, an independent, reader-supported quarterly journal of fine art photography that reaches an international audience.

Click here for more information/ to register online.

Public Lecture | The Guerrilla Girls

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The Guerrilla Girls are coming to Texas Woman’s University at the end of February!!!!

PUBLIC LECTURE: Thursday, February 26, 2015 | 7:30 p.m. 
Margo Jones Performance Hall

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. / Free Admission

The Department of Visual Arts at Texas Woman’s University will be hosting a free public lecture by Kathe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls, an art activist group. The Guerrilla Girls are feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. Over 55 women have been members over the years, some for months, some for decades. They use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose discrimination and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. They’ve unveiled anti-film industry billboards in Hollywood just in time for the Oscars, dissed the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at its own Feminist Futures Symposium, and created large scale projects for the Venice Biennale; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Istanbul; Mexico City; London; Athens; Rotterdam; Bilbao; Sarajevo; Shanghai; Ireland; Krakow and Montreal. They are authors of stickers, billboards, posters, street projects, and several books including The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art; Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Guide to Female Stereotypes; TheGuerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book; and The Guerrilla Girls’ Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How it Was Cured, from Ancient times Until Now. Their work is passed around by their tireless supporters. They travel the world doing performances and workshops, encouraging thousands of people to invent their own crazy kind of activism, too. Just in the few years, they have been in the UK, France, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Ireland, and Canada, as well as all over the United States.

For more information contact: Vance Wingate, Gallery Director, Department of Visual Arts | (940) 898-2533 or vwingate@twu.edu

2015 Rising Eyes of Texas | Heather Ross

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Congratulations to Heather Ross for having her photograph, To the End, selected by Shea Little, exhibition juror, to be included in the Rockport Center for the Arts’ 2015 Rising Eyes of Texas exhibition in Rockport, Texas. Exhibition dates are March 14 – April 4, 2015.

March 14 – April 4, 2015

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 2015 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Heather holds a BA in Sociology, an AA in Digital Photography and currently attends Texas Woman’s University working on her BFA in photography.