This event is only once a year. I couldn't go last year, but I'm gonna try to make a trip this year.
Art Chicago
Art Chicago™ 2008, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, brings together 180 of the world's leading emerging and established galleries, representing 56 international cities to showcase the work of over 2,000 renowned artists. Art Chicago™ offers curators, collectors, artists and art enthusiasts a comprehensive survey of current and historic work, from cutting-edge to modern masters in a wide variety of media including: painting, photography, drawing, prints, sculpture, video and special installations.
Artropolis
Chicago's citywide celebration of arts, antiques and culture, Artropolis™ attracts thousands of visitors to participate in a wide array of art and entertainment experiences that are unique to Chicago. From major museums to small galleries, world-class concert halls to cutting-edge clubs, lakefront parks to exclusive private parties, Artropolis™ offers seminars, guided tours, music, theatre and dance performances and unique special partnerships with over 80 institutions and entertainment venues throughout the city.
When you buy in Chicago, you don’t buy in a void. You buy thoughtfully, in consideration of history, in the context of the legacy of great works and with the intellectual stimulation needed to make insightful decisions.
Artropolis
Show Hours
Friday, April 25 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
Saturday, April 26 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sunday, April 27 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Monday, April 28 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Art Chicago and NEXT
11 a.m.–3 p.m. The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, The Artist Project and the Intuit Show of Outsider and Folk Art
For more info, click on Art Chicago 2008 on right side under art resources for website.
2008/03/29
Rosalux Gallery Call for Artists
Call for Artists :: Juried Exhibition
OPEN DOOR FOUR
Show Dates >> June 11th – June 29th, 2008
Opening Reception >> Saturday June 14th, 2008
Deadline for Entries >> Postmarked by May 1st, 2008
Juror >> Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center
Rosalux Gallery is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual OPEN-DOOR Exhibition. This is the only chance for non-member artists to showcase their work in the gallery. Typically, the open door exhibition is reviewed and receives extensive press coverage. This is an excellent opportunity to exhibit artwork in one of Minneapolis’s premiere commercial gallery spaces. All media are accepted: there are no guidelines set for subject matter, medium or style, and the show is open to anyone throughout the world.*
This year Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center, will jury the show. Raymond received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and her M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in 2004. She recently organized "Brave New Worlds" with curator Doryun Chong and a solo exhibition of works by Tino Sehgal.
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
1. Artist Statement
2. Resume
3. Three Samples of your work (digital images as jpegs on CD only; do not email images) 35mm slides will not be accepted this year. Make sure digital images’ shortest side is 600 pixels or larger, but not to exceed 2000 pixels. Also, images should be saved in the Jpeg format. Please enclose a SASE if you want your CD returned. For film submissions, please submit a cd or dvd with 3 minute samples for each work.
4. Image list: a list with the title of each work, medium, dimensions and date-of-completion
5. $25 Submission Fee (Please make checks payable to Rosalux Gallery)
Applications must be postmarked by May 1st, 2008 and sent to:
Open Door Exhibition
Rosalux Gallery
1011 Washington Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55415
*Artists are responsible for transporting art to the gallery as well as picking up unsold work when the show is over. Anyone outside the Twin Cities area is responsible for all shipping fees. Rosalux Gallery takes a 35% commission on any work sold during the show. Also, Rosalux Gallery does not provide Insurance for any piece in the exhibition though we will take great care in handling your work.
(took this from their site. It's always good to know about these things.)
OPEN DOOR FOUR
Show Dates >> June 11th – June 29th, 2008
Opening Reception >> Saturday June 14th, 2008
Deadline for Entries >> Postmarked by May 1st, 2008
Juror >> Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center
Rosalux Gallery is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual OPEN-DOOR Exhibition. This is the only chance for non-member artists to showcase their work in the gallery. Typically, the open door exhibition is reviewed and receives extensive press coverage. This is an excellent opportunity to exhibit artwork in one of Minneapolis’s premiere commercial gallery spaces. All media are accepted: there are no guidelines set for subject matter, medium or style, and the show is open to anyone throughout the world.*
This year Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center, will jury the show. Raymond received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and her M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in 2004. She recently organized "Brave New Worlds" with curator Doryun Chong and a solo exhibition of works by Tino Sehgal.
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
1. Artist Statement
2. Resume
3. Three Samples of your work (digital images as jpegs on CD only; do not email images) 35mm slides will not be accepted this year. Make sure digital images’ shortest side is 600 pixels or larger, but not to exceed 2000 pixels. Also, images should be saved in the Jpeg format. Please enclose a SASE if you want your CD returned. For film submissions, please submit a cd or dvd with 3 minute samples for each work.
4. Image list: a list with the title of each work, medium, dimensions and date-of-completion
5. $25 Submission Fee (Please make checks payable to Rosalux Gallery)
Applications must be postmarked by May 1st, 2008 and sent to:
Open Door Exhibition
Rosalux Gallery
1011 Washington Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55415
*Artists are responsible for transporting art to the gallery as well as picking up unsold work when the show is over. Anyone outside the Twin Cities area is responsible for all shipping fees. Rosalux Gallery takes a 35% commission on any work sold during the show. Also, Rosalux Gallery does not provide Insurance for any piece in the exhibition though we will take great care in handling your work.
(took this from their site. It's always good to know about these things.)
Second Tuesday Lecture @ MCP
Second Tuesday Lectures
Priscilla Briggs
Image by Priscilla Briggs
Second Tuesday Lecure + Priscilla Briggs:
Photographing Consumerism
April 8 - 7:00 PM
In this Second Tuesday Lecture, Priscilla Briggs will discuss her work, Global Market on view through April 27 in the Minnesota Projects Gallery. Briggs' work examines identity and human desire in the context of a capitalist society. Her images are of shopping malls and tourist markets from various regions of the world, focusing on cultural identity, the nature of merchandise for sale, and advertising images.
Briggs is a photo and video artist living in Minneapolis. She earned her M.F.A. in Photography and Digital Imaging from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2000 and her B.A. in Graphic and Language Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. Briggs currently works as a Professor of Studio Art at Gustavus Adolphus College.
(this was copied from MCP's website)
Priscilla Briggs
Image by Priscilla Briggs
Second Tuesday Lecure + Priscilla Briggs:
Photographing Consumerism
April 8 - 7:00 PM
In this Second Tuesday Lecture, Priscilla Briggs will discuss her work, Global Market on view through April 27 in the Minnesota Projects Gallery. Briggs' work examines identity and human desire in the context of a capitalist society. Her images are of shopping malls and tourist markets from various regions of the world, focusing on cultural identity, the nature of merchandise for sale, and advertising images.
Briggs is a photo and video artist living in Minneapolis. She earned her M.F.A. in Photography and Digital Imaging from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2000 and her B.A. in Graphic and Language Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. Briggs currently works as a Professor of Studio Art at Gustavus Adolphus College.
(this was copied from MCP's website)
2008/03/28
Artcrank
If you are interested in bicycles and poster art, you'd probably be interested in this show coming up at the One on One bicycle, art gallery & coffee shop.
A poster show about bikes: Saturday, April 5th 7pm
For more info, click link below.
Artcrank link
A poster show about bikes: Saturday, April 5th 7pm
For more info, click link below.
Artcrank link
2008/03/19
My 4x5 Pinhole Camera
I finally finished the pinhole I started last week with my friend Greg. It was a fun and easy process. Of all these years of being a photographer, I never successful finished making one. I had a pro help me do the mathematics to figure out the hole size. Or you could decide pinhole size 3- 6inches from the film would work best using needle which is about 1/75 inch in diameter. Just stick the pin in half way into an aluminum sheet/beer can (a Hamm's beer can, in our case).
I found a nice looking box from the thrift store for fifty cents as my pinhole camera. It is a 7x6.25x4.5 inch box. We made a hole in the middle of the front of the box, then sanded the hole down flat. Afterwards we stuck the pin into the aluminum can half way. With the ragged edges facing the inside of the box, we taped the aluminum exactly in the middle of the hole.
Since I planned on using a 4x5 film holder, I had to cut out a slightly larger hole than the holder above the box. I also had to figure out a way to keep the holder in secure place.
After cutting the space out to fit the holder, I placed it inside to measure the space on the side. I had to make a slot to hold it in place. Since I do not own wood cutting supplies, I had to use cardboard instead, stacking them until it was the same height as the side of the holder. I cut cardboard out to fit around the holder (sides and below) and a piece slightly on top to keep it locked in. Then glued the pieces in place. Afterward instead of painting the inside of it, I lined it with black card stock paper and taped any possible light leaks with black tape.
Next, I had to figure out a way to cover the slot around the holder to keep light from leaking in the top. Luckily, I had some black felt lying around. I had to fold a couple pieces together to make them thick enough to seal the hole. Then stapled it all around and applied more black tape.
Finally I could slide the holder in place and tape the outside with black tape and it's ready for a test.
These are the tests we made with photographic paper:
We started of with 25 seconds and it was underexposed, so we tried 100 secs which was overexposed. After those two tests, we tried 70 secs, a couple 60secs and some 45 secs. 45 secs seemed to be the best exposure.
Luckily there were no light leaks. I did notice vinnetting, which was cause by the short depth of the box. Fortunately, I like that look.
Next, we plan to use film to test out the F-Stop.
Film testing with my pinhole. Metered at 1/125 f5.6 ISO 100 (that kind of a day) shot at ISO 200 for 1 minute.
I found a nice looking box from the thrift store for fifty cents as my pinhole camera. It is a 7x6.25x4.5 inch box. We made a hole in the middle of the front of the box, then sanded the hole down flat. Afterwards we stuck the pin into the aluminum can half way. With the ragged edges facing the inside of the box, we taped the aluminum exactly in the middle of the hole.
Since I planned on using a 4x5 film holder, I had to cut out a slightly larger hole than the holder above the box. I also had to figure out a way to keep the holder in secure place.
After cutting the space out to fit the holder, I placed it inside to measure the space on the side. I had to make a slot to hold it in place. Since I do not own wood cutting supplies, I had to use cardboard instead, stacking them until it was the same height as the side of the holder. I cut cardboard out to fit around the holder (sides and below) and a piece slightly on top to keep it locked in. Then glued the pieces in place. Afterward instead of painting the inside of it, I lined it with black card stock paper and taped any possible light leaks with black tape.
Next, I had to figure out a way to cover the slot around the holder to keep light from leaking in the top. Luckily, I had some black felt lying around. I had to fold a couple pieces together to make them thick enough to seal the hole. Then stapled it all around and applied more black tape.
Finally I could slide the holder in place and tape the outside with black tape and it's ready for a test.
These are the tests we made with photographic paper:
We started of with 25 seconds and it was underexposed, so we tried 100 secs which was overexposed. After those two tests, we tried 70 secs, a couple 60secs and some 45 secs. 45 secs seemed to be the best exposure.
Luckily there were no light leaks. I did notice vinnetting, which was cause by the short depth of the box. Fortunately, I like that look.
Next, we plan to use film to test out the F-Stop.
Film testing with my pinhole. Metered at 1/125 f5.6 ISO 100 (that kind of a day) shot at ISO 200 for 1 minute.
2008/03/13
Off to NYC
Just excited, that is all!!! I will be in New York for the weekend, I wish I could stay longer. I can't wait to take some photos and have fun with my friends Mike & Poukhan. I will keep you posted!
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These were just the few scrapes I came home with from my trip to NCY.
More NCY pics: NCY Flickr
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These were just the few scrapes I came home with from my trip to NCY.
More NCY pics: NCY Flickr
2008/03/12
ASMP Meeting- opinion on boot camp style
I figured I should say a few words about the Boot Camp meeting run by ASMP, since I attended it. I guess I would say the best part was running into old friends/classmates who I hadn't seen for quite awhile. I ran into random folks who I recognized outside the world of photography and made a connection. Ran into a photographer I interned with and made myself look bad. Of course, I can not forget everyone's favorite photography instructor from MCTC, JackMader.
This year, instead of having a meeting in an auditorium, they wanted to make it more hands on and fun for everyone, they made it into a workshop.
The workshop consisting of five stations:
(1) Digital Tech
(2) Transitioning from assistant to shooter
(3) Marketing yourself as an assistant/photographer
(4) Getting acquainted with with certain photo equipment
(5) Tethering from camera to computer
I thought learning about the job of a Digital Tech was the most effective station. They were the most in depth with the subject. They had good notes and referenced websites which we could go back to in the future. They presented a lot of info in a short amount of time, luckily I was already familiar with a lot of it: C1pro, color balance, backing up files, making proofs, contact sheets, knowing your keyboard short cuts, effective ways to edit your images with layers through Photoshop like: non-destructive editing, naming layers organizing layers and etc.
The least effective station was the "transitioning from assistant" to shooter. The photographers gave a brief run though of starting from assistant to photographer in one sentence. It was silent a lot of the time. I guess I was really disappointed with that station because they could have done a lot more with that. Maybe even have a few notes so that they knew what to say.
The marketing section reminded me to redo and print my promos: business cards, postcards and to rework my portfolio. I should also make some calls to a lot of studios if I want to work consistently as an assistant.
This is definitely good for students who do not know much about the business other than what they have learned in the classroom. The meeting in the auditorium was just as effective. It was probably less boring for the speakers and instead of presenting something five times, they would only have to do it once.
I guess another problem I had was being able to hear the lectures because in one studio, there were three workshops going on and in the other studio, there were two going on at once. Maybe I'm getting old and my ears are getting bad, I don't know, it is possible.
My original plan in posting this blog was to share what I learned at the workshop, but instead, I will just add some websites to refer to on the side under photo resources. I guess this is more of my opinion on my 3hours spent.
This year, instead of having a meeting in an auditorium, they wanted to make it more hands on and fun for everyone, they made it into a workshop.
The workshop consisting of five stations:
(1) Digital Tech
(2) Transitioning from assistant to shooter
(3) Marketing yourself as an assistant/photographer
(4) Getting acquainted with with certain photo equipment
(5) Tethering from camera to computer
I thought learning about the job of a Digital Tech was the most effective station. They were the most in depth with the subject. They had good notes and referenced websites which we could go back to in the future. They presented a lot of info in a short amount of time, luckily I was already familiar with a lot of it: C1pro, color balance, backing up files, making proofs, contact sheets, knowing your keyboard short cuts, effective ways to edit your images with layers through Photoshop like: non-destructive editing, naming layers organizing layers and etc.
The least effective station was the "transitioning from assistant" to shooter. The photographers gave a brief run though of starting from assistant to photographer in one sentence. It was silent a lot of the time. I guess I was really disappointed with that station because they could have done a lot more with that. Maybe even have a few notes so that they knew what to say.
The marketing section reminded me to redo and print my promos: business cards, postcards and to rework my portfolio. I should also make some calls to a lot of studios if I want to work consistently as an assistant.
This is definitely good for students who do not know much about the business other than what they have learned in the classroom. The meeting in the auditorium was just as effective. It was probably less boring for the speakers and instead of presenting something five times, they would only have to do it once.
I guess another problem I had was being able to hear the lectures because in one studio, there were three workshops going on and in the other studio, there were two going on at once. Maybe I'm getting old and my ears are getting bad, I don't know, it is possible.
My original plan in posting this blog was to share what I learned at the workshop, but instead, I will just add some websites to refer to on the side under photo resources. I guess this is more of my opinion on my 3hours spent.
2008/03/08
ASMP Meeting Boot Camp
I'm planning to go to this assistant meeting which is going on Tuesday night, I thought it would be good to inform those who may not know about it. Unfortunately I found out too late to submit something for 30@8x10.
(I copied this from their website)
March 11, 2008
Student and Assistant Boot Camp Are you tough enough for this meeting? Can you handle an intense learning experience guaranteed to pump up your carreer? Well can you? If you can handle a fun fact filled evening plan on coming to this one! We are calling this meeting The Boot Camp. It’s going to be packed with useful need to know info and it’s presented in an all new format. We’ll have a half dozen stations set up and at each station an expert in the field will provide a 20 minute mini-session. Pick and choose your mini-sessions. Learn what you want when you want. This is real life stuff presented by working shooters and assistants. No theory or academic exercises here. Just real life, real work and real world info that you will be expected to know and use everyday. The mini-sessions will include: NOTE:This program is NOT associated with another fine program with a similar name. Photo Assistant Boot Camp® presented by the fine folks at PhotoAssistant.Net As if all that wasn't enough, there’s more!! This year we will also be presenting the 3rd Annual 30@8x10 Student/Assistant Photo Exhibit a special juried exhibit exclusively for assistants and students. You’ve got to be in it, to win it. Check it out!
• Marketing and Business practices
• Location digital tethering for DSLR’s
• Post capture workflow for raw files
• How to transition from assistant to shooter
• Everything you wanted to know about grip equipment
• Care and feeding of lighting gear
| Exhibit and Meeting: |
| Admission: | ASMP Members: Free Non-Members and Students: $5 |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 30@8x10 exhibiting and Social hour: 6:00 pm Presentation of certificates: 7:00 pm Boot Camp Begins!: 7:15 pm |
| Location: | Orbit Studios 3805 Washington Av N Mpls, MN. 55412 Map |
2008/03/06
I love Flickr
So I entered a contest in the Twin Cities flickr group and won first prize
for this photo. The theme was winter. This is very exciting for me, though
I will not be receiving anything for it, it's nice to be loved.
I will not be receiving anything for it, it's nice to be loved.
2008/03/01
Bi Cicle Race 08
This is old news but since we are on the subject of the Art Shanty Projects...
I was part organizing the Bi cicle race this year. It's the first year and hopefully it will keep going. It was a great event. I'll keep you posted for next year.
introducing....
Hello! I'm france flick.
I just wanna say I can't believe that I'm blogging. I have always thought of it as being sorta lame. Then I realized that blogging could be a great resource. I thought blogging was people just talking about his/herself but through internet searching for various info, I realized that I was being directed to someones personal blog. I also had to look myself up at the Snap Shot Shanty blog site, for the Art Shanty Projects(www.artshantyprojects.org). I thought it was such a great idea, it brought about other ideas for myself. Actually I'm not quite sure what I'm doing yet but it will definately be photo related.
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