Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Upcoming Photography Exhibition in Gallery 3, WSU Fine Art


BECOMING
Four artists contemplate childhood through contemporary fine art photography

Dennis DeHart          www.dennisdehart.com
Rachel Jerome Ferrao    www.racheljeromeferraro.com
Elizabeth Fleming          www.elizabethfleming.com
Ian van Coller   www.ianvancoller.com
Inaugural exhibitions:
Washington State University, Department of Fine Arts, Pullman, Washington.
Gallery 3, Fine Arts Building (Adjacent to the WSU Art Museum)
May 1-25, 2013

   Becoming is a fine art, traveling exhibition focused on childhood through the lens of contemporary photography. Initially an exhibition idea spearheaded by native South African photographer Ian van Coller, Becoming examines childhood through poignant moments of family, humor, intrigue, and drama

   Ian van Coller, a Professor of Photography at Montana State University, will exhibit prints from his series and book “Growing Up in Montana,” which focuses on childhood innocence. Citing the ability to study life through photographs as her primary drive to make pictures, New York-based commercial and art photographer Rachel Jerome Ferraro will be showcasing her personal fine art work in “Family.” Drawing largely from her interest in memory, longing and mystery in the everyday, New Jersey-based photographer Elizabeth Fleming will be presenting work from her project “Life is a Series of Small Moments.” Embracing a philosophical point of view of early childhood education and play, Washington State Fine Art faculty member Dennis DeHart will exhibit photographs from his series “At Play. 


Summer Photography Course: May 6-31, 2013: Enroll NOW!

F A 367 Special Topics—Photography
Summer 2013
May 6-31, Monday-Friday, 9-11.

There is a summer photography class happening first session. Areas we will be focusing on include:

•Understand DSLR cameras, technically and artistically
•How to use Adobe Lightroom to import, organize, edit and present images
•Use technical tools of photography to observe and extend natural phenomena
•Explore psychological, emotional, and experiential perspectives on place and space.
•View fine art photographers work
•Take field trips to several locations
•Exposure/how to meter/read light
•Photography in regards to Input (make photo) output (print/upload, etc photo)
•Projects synthesizing conceptual, technical, aesthetic, emotion, and design principles

Group multiple project, 385 Class Project, Spring 2013
As always, it will be a great learning experience and a lot of  f u n

C o u r s e T h e m e : T h e S u b j e c t i v i t y o f P l a c e a n d S p a c e
The emphasis in the course will be on our psychological, emotional, and experiential
perspectives on place and space. This will include classroom lectures, seminar, technical
demos, reading, and photographing in the field. We will be taking several day trips to
various locations throughout the Palouse region. We will also be discussing issues
centered on how we interpret space and places through culture, memory, physicality, and
aesthetics. Technically, we will be working with different imaging techniques in order to
extend, layer, and expand our perceptions of space. We will be looking at works by a variety of contemporary photographers.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures Project Video




Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures Project Video from Creative Time on Vimeo.

Since 1963, more than eight hundred spacecraft have been launched into geosynchronous orbit, forming a man-made ring of satellites around the Earth. These satellites are destined to become one of the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly floating through space long after every trace of humanity has disappeared from the planet.

Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures is a project that marks one of these spacecraft with a visual record of our contemporary historical moment. Paglen spent five years interviewing scientists, artists, anthropologists, and philosophers to consider what such a cultural mark should be. Working with materials scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paglen developed an artifact designed to last billions of years—an ultra-archival disc, micro-etched with one hundred photographs and encased in a gold-plated shell. In Fall 2012, the communications satellite EchoStar XVI will launch into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. While the satellite’s broadcast images are as fleeting as the light-speed radio waves they travel on, The Last Pictures will remain in outer space slowly circling the Earth until the Earth itself is no more.

http://vimeo.com/53655801

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Summer Advanced Photography Intensive/NYC at Columbia University


Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:53 PM
Dear Dennis DeHart,

I am writing to tell you about our new Advanced Photography Intensive/NYC at Columbia University as part of the Columbia Summer Arts program.  This is a six week intensive that engages the students in the fundamentals of photographic practice and the development of a portfolio. 

The course is designed for three distinct types of students: college graduates preparing to apply for MFA programs, experienced photographers looking to gain knowledge of the photographic tradition and its advanced techniques, and seasoned artists and teachers wishing to rigorously develop their practice through a critical dialogue with faculty, visiting artists and other students. 

For more information, including how to apply, visit:

Please pass this information along to anyone you know at Washington State University who might be interested.  The admissions deadline is April 24th and there are a few spots still available for this summer.

best,

Kai McBride

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Kai McBride
Advanced Photo Intensive/NYC Coordinator
School of the Arts, Columbia University

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

MFA Show at WSU Art Museum; Opening reception will be at 6 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the museum gallery

PULLMAN, Wash. - Encounters with creativity await visitors to the Washington State University Museum of Art’s annual Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, April 5-May 4. An opening reception will be at 6 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the museum gallery. Museum admission is always free.

Painting by Meghan Flynn

The display of work by MFA graduate candidates was organized by Keith Wells, the late Museum of Art curator. "This exhibition provides a wide range of styles for faculty, students and local museum constituents,” Wells said. "The world class faculty at WSU encourage the MFA candidates to become more confident and articulate in their convictions. The museum presents this year’s graduate thesis work in hopes that undergraduate students, first year graduate students and anyone willing to be moved by art will find it a fun and stimulating experience.”

The 2013 MFA candidates are Meghan Flynn, Meghan Hedley, Catherine Jensen, Jennifer Saracino, Lisa Soranaka and Austin Stiegemeier. To learn more about them and their art, see the museum website at http://bit.ly/12crdPK or look on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Museum-of-Art-WSU.

Congrats!

I wanted to congratulate three of our current BA students for being accepted into these programs for Graduate school.


Limgzhu Zhang, Syracuse University, MFA Photography
http://vpa.syr.edu/art-design/transmedia/graduate/art-photography


Xiao Sun, Drexel University, Art Administration
http://drexel.edu/westphal/graduate/AADM/


Lindsey Clawson, Seattle University, MFA in Art Leadership
https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/mfa/