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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.

Purchase Award | The Snider Prize

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 Due: April 1, 2015
The Snider Prize
The Museum of Contemporary Photography

The Museum of Contemporary Photography is now accepting submissions for the 2015 Snider Prize.

The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists as they leave graduate school. MoCP’s curatorial staff will select three artists for this award: one winner will receive $2,000, and two honorable mentions will each receive $500. These funds will go toward the purchase of work to be added to MoCP’s permanent collection. The award forms a part of the museum’s ongoing commitment to support new talent in the field of contemporary photography.  The prize is open to MFA students currently in their last year of study at an accredited program of study, and is sponsored by MoCP patrons Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider.

Submissions will be accepted now through April 1, 2015 at midnight. Click here to submit your application, and please contact sniderprize@colum.edu for more information.

14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition | Allison Jarek

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Congratulations to Allison Jarek for having her artwork, Untitled, elected by April Watson, juror for the exhibition, to be included in the 14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition. The exhibition is at Texas Woman’s University East | West Galleries from February 11 – March 13, 2015.

February 11 – March 13, 2015

Opening Reception: February 17 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM

Guest Lecture with Juror, April Watson: February 17 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM

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

14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition | Heather Ross

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Congratulations to Heather Ross for having her artwork, Parallel Universe, elected by April Watson, juror for the exhibition, to be included in the 14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition. The exhibition is at Texas Woman’s University East | West Galleries from February 11 – March 13, 2015.

February 11 – March 13, 2015

Opening Reception: February 17 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM

Guest Lecture with Juror, April Watson: February 17 | 4:00 – 5:00 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.

14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition

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14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition
& 2015 Solo Exhibition / Clare Benson, The Shepherd’s Daughter

February 11 – March 13, 2015
Opening Reception: February 17 | 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Guest Lecture with Juror, April Watson: February 17 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Texas Woman’s University
East | West Galleries
14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition Selected Artists:

Sharon Lee Hart, Boynton Beach, FL (Solo Show Award)
Andy Mattern, Albuquerque, NM (Coupralux Award)
Bryon Darby, Lawrence, KS (Imaging Spectrum Award)
Allison Jarek, Denton, TX (Red River Printer Award)
Ben Altman, Danby, NY (Arlington Camera Award)
Marcus DeSieno, Tampa, FL (Arlington Camera Award)
Beverly Ahern, Overland Park, KS
Linda Alterwitz, Las Vegas, NV
Sarah Austin, Tuscaloosa, AL
Christine Carr, Ankeny, IA
Bennie Flores Ansell, Houston, TX
Garrett Hansen, Lexington, KY
Abbey Hepner, Albuquerque, NM
John Holmgren, Lancaster, PA
Paul Hooven, Pine Bluff, AR
Priya Kambli, Kirksville, MO
Joseph Labate & Laura LaFave, Tuscon, AZ
Janna Añonuevo Langholz, Dallas, TX
Holly Lay, Pendleton, IN
Katie Newton, Beaverton, OR
Ashley Samuela Raasch, Portland, OR
Heather Ross, Denton, TX
Jiehao Su, Beijing, China
Jennifer M Tremblay, Harrisonburg, VA
Marydorsey Wanless, Topeka, KS
Angela Franks Wells, Ayden, NC
Linda Wilson, South Bend, IN
Christine Zuercher, Greenville, NC

Light Leaked interview with Juror, April Watson: click here.

500X Student EXPO 2015 | Madeline Potter

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© Madeline Potter 2014

Congratulations to Madeline Potter for having her artwork, Contemplating the Temporal: Stress, elected by Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, jurors for the exhibition, to be included in the 500X Student EXPO 2015. The exhibition is at 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX from February 14 – March 8, 2015.

February 14 – March 8, 2015

Opening reception: February 14 | 7:00 – 10:00 PM

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

500X Student EXPO 2015 | Tiffany Milow

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Congratulations to Tiffany Milow for having her artwork, Landfilled Earth, elected by Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, jurors for the exhibition, to be included in the 500X Student EXPO 2015. The exhibition is at 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX from February 14 – March 8, 2015.

February 14 – March 8, 2015

Opening reception: February 14 | 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Tiffany received a BFA with a focus in Photography from the University of North Texas in the spring of 2012 and is currently an MFA student in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.

Call for Entry | Travellers

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Due: March 19, 2015
Travellers | Blank Wall Gallery

Submit your photos for free participation to Travellers exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery.

Forty photographs from the ones sent will be chosen to be exhibited by our gallery in April.

Photographs of people in ports, airports, bus stations and train stations. People with luggage, departing or arriving, taken in the street, in metro stations or bus stops, waiting for a taxi or getting out of one during day or night. All means of transport are accepted.

Blank Wall Gallery is calling artists to submit photographs for an exhibition with the theme Travellers.

Professional or amateur photographers from around the world, who are over 18, are eligible to participate in the contest.

The total cost of this particular contest (printing, matting, framing, press releases, leaflets, opening night, and invigilation) will be covered by Blank Wall Gallery. Blank Wall Gallery will provide both its floors for this exhibition.

All you have to do is send the photographs you believe that have a position in this exhibition. Forty photographers will be chosen to present their work.

How to Submit:

You can submit your work via email at: submissions@blankwallgallery.com

In the body of your email please include the following info:

Your Name
Exhibition Name
Titles of Included Photos with corresponding file name
(i.e. New York Train Station – firstname_lastname_1.jpg
Heathrow Airport – firstname_lastname_2.jpg etc.)

1. Submission is free

2. You can submit up to three photographs, taken by any photographic means: digital camera, film or Polaroid.

3. Prepare your files. Your photographs should be jpg files, 1200 pixels maximum, on the longest side, set to the highest quality, at 72 dpi.

4. The name of the files should be: firstname_lastname_1.jpg

5. The photographers who are selected into the exhibition will provide a high resolution Tiff or JPEG file for our gallery to print.

For more information click here.

500X Student EXPO 2015 | Heather Ross

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Congratulations to Heather Ross for having her artwork, Moving Through Time, elected by Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, jurors for the exhibition, to be included in the 500X Student EXPO 2015. The exhibition is at 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX from February 14 – March 8, 2015.

February 14 – March 8, 2015

Opening reception: February 14 | 7:00 – 10:00 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.