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A Natural Order and Of Nature | Lectures and Exhibitions at UT Dallas

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Photographer Lucas Foglia will lecture on his series A Natural Order on March 31st, Tuesday, 7:30 pm in JSOM Davidson Auditorium, 1.118

A reception for the artist will be held in the O’Donnell Building Gallery, first floor, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, before the lecture.
http://www.lucasfoglia.com

Of Nature
(Comer Photography Collection / curated by Twyla Bloxham)

Exhibition Dates:   March 27 – April 24, 2015

Of Nature presents an overview of photographers who take inspiration from the natural world. From an emphasis on scientific phenomena and the recording of flora and fauna, to fictional images of natural phenomena, these artists reveal to us the power of observation and our relationship to our environment. Exhibiting artists include Lucas Foglia, Tom Chambers, Camille Solyagua, John Pfahl, Zeke Berman, Steve Goff, Robert Langham III, Laszlo Layton, and Kate Breakey.

Curator Twyla Bloxham will lecture on the exhibition Of Nature on April 2nd, Thursday, 2:00 pm in JSOM Davidson Auditorium, 1.118
A reception for the curator will be held in the O’Donnell Building Gallery, first floor, 3:30 – 4:30 pm

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.

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

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.

500X Student EXPO 2015 | Madeline Potter

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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.

Apply, $ | February Opportunities

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February Opportunities

Call for Entry:

  • On the Street Where You Live | Due: February 9, 2015
    PhotoPlace Gallery
    Juror: James P. Blair
  • Landscapes | Due: February 11, 2015 
    The Center for Fine Art Photography
    Juror: Chantel Paul
  •  Photography Now 2015 | Due: February 15, 2015
    The Center for Photography at Woodstock
    Juror: David Bram
  • FotoFest 2016 | Due: February 17, 2015
    Theme: Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet
  • 2015 DART Student Art Contest | Due: February 27, 2015
    Theme: Explore Your World with DART
  • LensCulture Portrait Awards 2015 | Due: February 23, 2015
    LensCulture
    Juror: International Jury
  • 2015 Woodstock A-I-R Program | Due: February 28, 2015
    The Center for Photography at Woodstock

Internship:

  • Internship | Penland School of Crafts | Due February 1, 2015

Scholarship:

  • Scholarships & Studio Assistantship | Penland School of Crafts | Due: February 17, 2015
  • Beinecke Scholarship | Due: February 20, 2015
  • SPESC Student Scholarship | Due: February 20, 2015
    2015 SPE National Conference Student Scholarship from South Central Region

 

Call for Entry | 2015 DART Student Art Contest

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Due: February 27, 2015
2015 DART Student Art Contest

Your art could win a spot on DART buses and trains, plus $1,000 or other prizes!

2015 Student Art Contest Guidelines
Theme – Explore Your World with DART

Show us some of the unique places you’ve discovered riding DART – or the destinations you have yet to explore.

CONTEST RULES

1. Designs must be original work created by the student and should illustrate the theme
“Explore Your World with DART.” Contest open to students in Kindergarten through 12th grade. Limit one entry per
student.

2. Entries must measure 11” high x 17” wide, and the design should be laid out horizontally. The back of the entry should
include: Student’s name, grade level, school name and teacher’s name.

3. Entries due by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 27, 2015 and should be mailed or personally delivered to: Jessica D. Lennon,
DART’s Transit Education Program, 2015 Student Art Contest, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 1401 Pacific Ave. P.O. Box
660163Dallas, TX 75266-0163

4. DART will notify the winners by Friday, March 6, 2015.

5. All artwork becomes the property of DART and may be used with appropriate credit to the artist. By entering the contest,
you consent to have your name and photograph appear as one of the winners.

6. For more information about the contest, please contact Jessica D. Lennon at jlennon@DART.org, or call her at
214.749.2582.

For complete rules, visit DART.org/artcontest.

Sharing Space, The Gallery at UTA | Gyorgy Beck & Sylvia Plachy

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Sharing Space: Gyorgy Beck and Sylvia Plachy

January 20 – February 14, 2015
Reception: Friday, January 30, 2015 | 5:30 to 8:00 PM

Arlington – The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present Sharing Space: Gyorgy Beck and Sylvia Plachy, featuring two Hungarian-born artists who share space in this exhibition in both the literal and metaphysical sense. Longtime friends, Plachy and Beck are collaborating with a selection of works from their independent careers that demonstrate a shared poetic approach. Both artists create evocative photographic images that convey a similar, often dream-like aesthetic while using very different subjects, mediums and methods. Plachy, an award-winning photographer based in New York, captures humanistic vignettes with her camera, that express her unique viewpoint through subtle choices of subject and focus. Beck, currently a visiting senior lecturer in the Art and Art History Department at UTA, creates films and photo-based works by digitally combining and reworking imagery, and experimenting with printing techniques and surfaces to convey his thoughtful, meditative vision.

In association with the exhibition, Sylvia Plachy will discuss her work in an hour-long gallery talk on Thursday, January 29, beginning at 12:30 pm in The Gallery at UTA. There will be a reception on Friday, January 30 from 5:30 to 8 pm with brief remarks by both artists at 6:30 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Gallery hours are 10 am until 5 pm Monday through Friday and noon until 5 pm on Saturday. The Gallery is located in the Fine Art Building, room 169, at 502 S. Cooper Street, Arlington, TX. For more information contact Benito Huerta or Patricia Healy (817) 272-5658 or http://www.uta.edu/gallery.

The 2014 – 2015 exhibition schedule is made possible by the generous support of Arlington Camera, the Hanley Foundation, Hilton Arlington, and Nerwin & Martin.

Call for Entry | FotoFest 2016

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Due: February 17, 2015
FotoFest 2016
Theme: Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet

For details and submission: http://2014biennial.fotofest.org/2016/submissions.aspx#.VJMG_Z2DMg

Seeking Submissions:

FotoFest’s 2016 Biennial of Photography and New Media Art will be FotoFest’s sixteenth consecutive Biennial. Over 1,000 photographic and new media artists exhibited works during the 2014 Biennial, and overall attendance was 275,000 people.  Curators, artists, collectors, publishers, critics and arts audiences from over 32 countries attended the Biennial.

The FotoFest 2016 Biennial takes place March 12-April 24, 2016.