Congratulations to Deedra Baker for having her artwork, Jan., 1990, featured in The HAND Magazine, Issue #8, April 2015. A list of other artists included in the issue may be viewed here.
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.
Congratulations to Rachael Banks, Amber Hall, Allison Jarek, and Gary McCoy for their Master of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition at the East | West Galleries at Texas Woman’s University. The exhibition dates are April 15 – 23, 2015.
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 2015 | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: April 15 – 23, 2015
The exhibition also features paintings by Bailey K. Chapman and James Zamora.
Due: June 1, 2015
Call for Proposals:
SPE welcomes presentation proposals for SPE’s 2016 National Conference, Constructed Realities, from member photographers, writers, educators, curators, historians and professionals from other fields.
Next year’s theme will address the aspects of myth, fantasy, and reality in photography and deconstruct rhetoric of what constitutes a photograph.
Topics are not required to be theme-based, and may include but are not limited to, imagemaking, history, contemporary theory and criticism, multidisciplinary approaches, new technologies, effects of media and culture, educational issues, funding, and presentations of work in photography, film, video, performance and installation.
Presentation Formats:
Graduate Student – short presentation of your own artistic work and a brief introduction to your graduate program (must be enrolled in graduate program at time of submission)
Imagemaker – presentation on your own artistic work
Lecture – presentation on historical topic, theory, or another artist’s work
Panel Discussion – active discussion among panelists (max 4), moderator and audience to discuss a chosen topic
Teaching & Learning – presentations, workshops, or demos that address educational issues, including teaching resources and strategies
Submission Deadline: JUNE 1, 2015, 11:59 PM EDT
Visit www.spenational.org for full details.
Due: May 13, 2015
Center Forward | The Center for Fine Art Photography
Juror: Hannah Glasgow
Juror:
Hamidah Glasgow is the Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography. Ms. Glasgow is dedicated to the advancement of artist’s careers and has created a vibrant community of artists, gallerists and curators who collaborate to promote both emerging and established artists. The Center hosts 20 international juried, group and solo exhibitions in its three galleries annually. The Centers goal is to promote individual artists from around the world through our physical and online galleries, publications and various social media outlets including the Center’s blog, Perspectives.
Honors |Awards:
Juror’s Selection: $1,000.00
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.
For More Information about the Center Forward Call For Entries, click here
Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Ashley Whitt, for her recent solo exhibition, The Haunted Mind, at the Lillian Bradshaw Gallery in the Dallas Public Library. The exhibition ran from March 2 – March 28, 2015.
The Haunted Mind is an on-going series of self-portraits exploring themes of grief, duality, and psychological states. An alternative photographic process called dass transfer is used to create distortion and blurring within the images.
There is also an accompanying musical piece titled “SheIsWaitingInTheWoods” by Dan Bernardo.
Ashley graduated from Texas Woman’s University where she earned her MFA in Photography in 2012. She graduated from UT Arlington with a BFA in Photography in 2009. Ashley currently adjuncts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for Dallas County and Collin County Community Colleges.
Congratulations to Allison Jarek for having her series, Hallowed Ground, featured in the March / April 2015 issue. To view this publication, visit www.sxsemagazine.com.
South x Southeast photomagazine brings you everything about fine art photography in the American Southeast. From gallery shows to museum exhibitions, book reviews, photo festivals, the best of the blogs written about Southern photography, interviews with gallery directors, photographers, museum curators and collectors of the South, along with articles and galleries of 9 – 12 featured artists. From Miami to Washington, Dallas to Savannah, we’ve got you covered.
SXSE comes to you bimonthly online and in print.
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.
Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Kalee Appleton, for having five pieces from her series, Bit Rot, in the group exhibition, A Flexible Arrangement, at Gray Matters Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Curated by Nathan Green, this exhibition includes an impressive lineup of artists working in photography, including: Sterling Allen, Josh Rios, Barry Stone, Kevin Todora, and Casey James Wilson.
Exhibition Dates: March 28 – April 26, 2015
Gray Matters Gallery
113 N. Haskell Ave.
Dallas, TX, 75226
(214) 824-7108
Kalee received a BFA in Photography from Texas Tech University in 2005 and an MFA in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration from Texas Woman’s University in 2014.
Call for Entry:
A Letter from Joy Christiansen Erb | Recent Successes and Artistic Endeavors
“Fun 2014 Activities and News
Last year was filled with some amazing opportunities that allowed me to create and exhibit new artwork, participate in an artist residency program and travel to Turkey! With the help of a Faculty Improvement Leave from YSU, I was able to have the spring semester off from teaching to work on the development of a new body of work focusing on the topics of motherhood, imagination and collaboration.
In April, I traveled to Nebraska City, NE to participate in an artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, where I was able to meet and work with some amazing artists, authors, composers and community members. This is definitely an opportunity I would suggest for all of my artist friends! One of my pieces created at the residency titled 13 days apart (26 clementines), which is included in the KHN permanent collection, was recently on display in the inaugural exhibition titled The Residents at the Hastings College Art Gallery in Hasting, NE.
This past summer my work was included in the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 20thJuried Exhibition that was juried by Aline Smithson. I also had five photographs included in an exhibition titled, Environmental Portraiture at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR that was juried by Melanie McWhorter.
The Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography featured the Portrait of a Mother series through a new online exhibition titled New Directions. In addition, David Bram selected one of my photographs to be published in the Fraction Magazine’s 62nd issue.
In November, I presented my work at the Society for Photographic Education’s MidAtlantic regional conference as one of seven photographers selected to speak on the subject of portraiture. The conference was a lot of fun and hosted in Lancaster, PA.
I am beyond excited to announce my recent invitation to participate in the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP). MPP includes a collection of more that 1,000 photographs by both prominent and emerging regional photographers. The collection is housed in theMuseum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL.
Last but not least, I had the chance to travel to and photograph in Turkey this past June with nine other colleagues from Youngstown State University and as well as two other amazing friends from the Niagara Foundation! It was an amazing trip that I could talk about for hours. You can see some of my photographs from Turkey on YSU’s website as well as on instagram. Follow me @jchristiansenerb!
Exciting 2015 Events
This year is off to a great start with a solo exhibition titled, Markers opening at thePittsburgh Center for the Arts this upcoming Friday, February 13 from 5:30-9:00pm. If you are in the Pittsburgh area, please stop by and visit the opening. There are several other great shows going up in the center as well, so it should be a fun evening. The exhibition will be up through May, so feel free to stop by when you are visiting Pittsburgh!
I am proud to have had my work selected by Ben Montague to be included in the Image OHIO 15 exhibition along with several of my other photography colleagues from Ohio. The show will be up for another two weeks closing on Friday, February 20th. I will be participating in an artist panel at 1pm that Friday if you are in the Columbus area and want to stop by the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery.
In March, I look forward to participating in the Akron Art Museum’s Slide Jam: Beauty Reigns event and will be speaking about my work with several other artists. This summer will be a busy one planning for some upcoming exhibitions and talks in Florida, Illinois and Wisconsin. Check out my website to find out details about these upcoming events.
As new things develop and new work is made this year, I will be sure to keep you updated in my fall newsletter! Please keep me up-to-date on what is happening in your lives as well! Happy New Year and all the best in 2015!”
Due: March 30, 2015
Water | A Smith Gallery
Juror: Gayle Stevens
wa – ter : rain, tears, agua, springs, drink, rivers, wet, steam, flood, moisture, lakes, humidity, damp, soak, ocean, wash, aquatic, splash…
“The waterskiing bobble heads floated just on the surface. Belle sat on the gravelly shore, her young son sat in the lap of her new boyfriend, Chance, repeatedly asking why his Mommy’s car was in the lake.
Belle was a water baby. Her mother and her part-time astrologist sister set her on her watery path early, constantly reminding her of her Aquarian destiny: living in, around and with water. Being born on February fourteenth gave her her name. Her Grandmother, Belle Tran Ashcroft, a Vietnamese/French war bride was also born on Valentine’s Day in an art deco teak and brick house on a coffee, rubber and cashew plantation northwest of what was then Saigon.
She was a South Vietnamese water skiing champion. She met her future husband when he and his soldier buddies were skiing on “her” lake during a weekend of R and R in 1967. He was also raised on a plantation, in Mississippi.
Grandmother Belle spoke French fluently along with her native Vietnamese. She struggled always with English, easily moving herself to tears of frustration or amusement when trying to create english vowel sounds or recount a story of her youth. Sitting there by the lake, with her reasonably new automobile mostly submerged in the clear blue water, Belle looked down at the tears beading up on her tanned mid section, remembering Grandmother Belle trying to say the word fry…” from the story “Tow Rope” by Franklin Cincinnatus
Juror:
Gayle Stevens will be the juror for “water”. Ms. Stevens has worked in antiquarian photographic processes for over twenty years. Her chosen medium is wet plate collodion for its fluidity and individuality. She exhibits extensively across the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and China. Ms. Stevens received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She is an educator, speaker, juror, curator and an active member of the photographic community. Named one of the Critical Mass Top Fifty Photographers for 2010 and 2014, she received second place in the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards in 2011 and was named a finalist for the Clarence John Laughlin Award in 2012 and 2014. Her work has been featured in Fraction, Square, Shots, Diffusion, B + W Photography, South by Southeast and Fuzion magazines and in Inventing Reality, New Orleans Visionary Photography. North Light Press published a book of Stevens’ work, Calligraphy, in their 11 + 1 Signature series. Christopher James will feature her work in the third edition of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes. Stevens’ work is widely collected and is part of the permanent collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Rockford Museum of Art and the Center for Fine Art Photography and recently the University of New Mexico Art Museum, among others. A member of the Posse photo collective, she divides her time shooting in Pass Christian, Mississippi and Downers Grove, Illinois, where she resides. Stevens is represented by Tilt Gallery, Catherine Couturier Gallery, and Gallery Kayafas and Paul Cava.
SUBMISSION | Guidelines:
Digital images should 1000 pixels on the longest side saved in JPEG format at 72 ppi. Each image should be labeled with consecutive numbers followed by your name, i.e. 1FirstName_LastName.jpg. The number should correspond with the number on the application form.
SUBMISSION | Online:
Fill out our online application to apply, send images, and make payment with Paypal. You will receive an email confirmation upon receiving the entry and payment. You can also fill and submit the online application, print out your confirmation email, and mail it with a check for your fees to the address below.
SUBMISSION | Mail:
Please prepare a submission form with your name, address, email address and phone number along with a list of the titles and printing process of each entry. The number of each title should correspond to the image number on the cd. CD’s and submission form should be mailed to:
A Smith Gallery
P O Box 175
Johnson City, TX 78636
The gallery will send an email confirmation upon receiving the entry and payment.
SUBMISSION | Entry Fee:
$30 for the first 5 images, $6 per each additional image.
ELIGIBILITY:
The competition is open to all photographers both professional and amateur working in all photographic mediums and styles. International entries are welcomed. Work that has been previously exhibited in an A Smith Gallery competition is not eligible.
PRINTING/MATTING/FRAMING | information:
The gallery offers printing, matting and framing services for images that are selected. If sending framed work, please use mats and frames that compliment your work and are appropriate in a gallery setting. Colored mats and prints on foam core are discouraged. All images should be ready to hang with wires. Gallery wraps are acceptable. If you have any questions regarding appropriate presentation please contact amanda@asmithgallery.com.
AWARDS | The awards are as follows:
SALES | The gallery will retain 40% of the sales price.
USE RIGHTS | Photographers retain full rights to their own images. The gallery will use the photographer’s images for publicity purposes as well as in the Blurb exhibition catalogue.
FOR MORE INFORMATION | amanda@asmithgallery.com
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