tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44193299113451494792024-03-19T04:21:02.396-04:00PHOTO/arts MagazineC H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comBlogger1054125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-88123945505503576402022-02-21T12:47:00.000-05:002022-02-21T12:47:40.138-05:00Photo Israel Open Call 2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTfSe7Rvl-xn1J6tda3IPjXgqWIahLq_0bnF3z7ar8JLHveMVxVrHmYW_XgGIuLZOcuih30vxTkt-_WlEMEChjGz683o9jW4BuZ48xf9_yavT9vj5_NUhf6tj44U9SMkvTrTxVrxCmWJti5mrLcakKSPb3M2qopZssYkXSvSQRne1HXIG8_6btr1DH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="837" data-original-width="1600" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTfSe7Rvl-xn1J6tda3IPjXgqWIahLq_0bnF3z7ar8JLHveMVxVrHmYW_XgGIuLZOcuih30vxTkt-_WlEMEChjGz683o9jW4BuZ48xf9_yavT9vj5_NUhf6tj44U9SMkvTrTxVrxCmWJti5mrLcakKSPb3M2qopZssYkXSvSQRne1HXIG8_6btr1DH=w424-h222" width="424" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open Call for Participation in the 10th International Photography Festival</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.photoisrael.org/en/&source=gmail&ust=1645536452283000&usg=AOvVaw0jEk_VRD_8mSiQqSp4A-ce" href="https://www.photoisrael.org/en/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHOTO IS:RAEL</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> invites artists to submit proposals for participation in the central exhibition at the 10th International Photography Festival, taking place in Tel Aviv in November 2022.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A jury of leading experts spanning a wide range of artistic genres will review the open call submissions and select the exhibiting artists.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20 artists will be invited to present their work in the festival’s central exhibition</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and will also exhibit their works at additional festivals around the world</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; 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color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Photographers, as well as video, performance and interdisciplinary artists from around the world and at different stages of their career, are all welcome to submit their existing works, or proposals for new work on the topic.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 4.5pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission deadline: March 24, 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission fee: $15.00, including a free entry to all the festival’s events.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHOTO IS:RAEL is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering dialogue via research and the highlighting of artistic and social issues through the language of photography.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further details: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://opencall.photoisrael.org/&source=gmail&ust=1645536452283000&usg=AOvVaw3G5Kenz_BCG3_K_-5hwRPa" href="https://opencall.photoisrael.org/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; 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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gravy Studio & Gallery is proud to present </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paper Studies, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Debra Bilow’s first solo exhibition in Philadelphia. Paper Studies, focuses on Debra’s interest in still life compositions. This series of still lifes are nuanced color or black and white images that play with perception, expressing her minimalist leanings and are grounded in formality and restraint. The images are of white folded paper, placed within a white setting and photographed in natural light. The limited color palette causes the forms to fade into the background. The planes flatten and merge and the delicate objects are barely there. Each image is printed on a small scale to enhance their understated, quiet nature. The size promotes an intimate, individual viewing of the photograph.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Museum of Modern Art Curator of Photography Sarah Meister will be the juror for the 2018 Photo Review Photography Competition. Among her many accomplishments, her most recent books include One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016) and Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017). She is a co-editor of and contributing author to the three-volume series Photography at MoMA (1960 to Now, 1920 to 1960, and 1840 to 1920), co-director of the August Sander Project (a five-year research initiative with Noam Elcott, Columbia University), and the lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs on Coursera.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 34th annual photography competition with a difference. Instead of only installing an exhibit that would be seen by a limited number of people, The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2018 competition issue and on its website. Thus, the accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people all across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. And Forrest Old, director of the Red Filter Gallery, will select a photographer for a one-person show at the online gallery. Plus numerous Editor’s Selections will be exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines, and have sold their work to collectors throughout the country.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Awards include a $500 purchase prize for inclusion in the Haverford College Photography Collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive college photography collections in the United States, selected by William Earle Williams, the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in Humanities; Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography, at Haverford College; a Mission Workshop Rhake, Weatherproof Laptop Backpack with The Capsule, Padded Camera Insert; a 24"x50' roll of Museo Silver Rag; a $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper, a leading supplier of inkjet photo paper; a 20"x24" silver gelatin fiber print from Digital Silver Imaging; a ThinkTank Airport Advantage Plus camera bag and a ThinkTank Airport Advantage camera bag; a “The Complete Photographer’s Set” from Tog Tees (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.togtees.com/collections/all-t-shirts&source=gmail&ust=1523991906571000&usg=AFQjCNFtzuS1wh2RagQGusyv91Frh005sw" href="https://www.togtees.com/collections/all-t-shirts" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.togtees.com/<wbr></wbr>collections/all-t-shirts</a>); and several Kodak Mini Shot Instant Print Cameras (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077BF7KG7&source=gmail&ust=1523991906572000&usg=AFQjCNFceJ99FvzvYRGe6vAA6rwuqbhBAw" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077BF7KG7" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>B077BF7KG7</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">An entry fee of $35 for up to three prints or images and $8 for each additional image entitles all entrants to a copy of the full-color catalogue. In addition, all entrants will be able to subscribe to The Photo Review for $36, a 20% discount. (Higher rates apply for non-US subscribers.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Publishing since 1976, The Photo Review covers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for photography in the Mid-Atlantic region. The quarterly journal, printed on coated paper with high quality reproduction, contains reviews, portfolios, interviews, book reviews, and news. The Photo Review has presented previously unpublished images by Duane Michals, Weegee, and Frederick Sommer, and catalogues for a James VanDerZee exhibition, a show of Lois Greenfield’s dynamic dance photographs, “Changing Visions of the American Landscape,” and a widely praised catalogue celebrating the centennial of Stieglitz’s Camera Work. Its writers have included A. D. Coleman, Frank Day, Shelley Rice, Peter Hay Halpert, Barbara L. Michaels, Daile Kaplan, Jean Dykstra, and Mark Power. Subscriptions are $45 per year for the quarterly journal and the newsletter, which is issued eight times a year and sent as a PDF by email with live links and which contains exhibition listings, exhibition opportunities from around the country and the world, and news.</span></div>
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She flew into the window directly behind my office desk. I turned around and saw her lying in the snow. A tiny snow angel. She was so warm in my hand, I expected her to wake up at any moment. Fly to heaven little one!C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-35256027281819031592015-07-04T19:02:00.001-04:002015-07-04T19:03:55.393-04:00Sculpture (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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MossRehab's <b>All About Art</b> event is an international juried exposition and sale open to artists with physical, cognitive, visual and hearing disabilities. Eligible media include works on paper, works on canvas or board, mixed media, sculpture, jewelry, photography and fine crafts.<br />
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The show, held at the MossRehab main campus in Elkins Park, Pa., began on April 25, and runs through June 24, 2014. You can view the exhibition any time during normal business hours. There is no fee or ticket required. <br />
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Visual Impairment & Comprehension issues<br />
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Coronary Artery Disease</td></tr>
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Traumatic Brain Injury</td></tr>
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Paralysis due to<br />
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Visual Impairment</td></tr>
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C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-26165049843995582002014-03-03T19:11:00.000-05:002014-03-03T19:11:43.964-05:00Tending Space Fellowships for Artists<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Hemera Foundation</b> is a philanthropic organization dedicated to introducing secular contemplative views and practices into mainstream society, focusing on education, women and children, and the arts. Hemera develops and invests in strategic initiatives that lead to sustainable systemic cultural change. The Foundation is a private foundation established in September 2007.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">1. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">Who can apply?</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"> (Eligibility requirements.) </span><br />
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Anyone with a demonstrable interest in meditation/prayer/contemplation and the arts may apply.</li>
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The time commitment to be a fellow is between 4-6 months. Within that period a fellow commits to: attending a meditation/contemplation retreat and an arts retreat; maintaining regular communication with their art and meditation mentors; regular journaling; two weeks of studio time; a post-retreat dialogue; and one piece of work created and documented with the experience of retreat, mentorship, and the power of art in mind. This work does not have to be based on your fellowship experience, though it should draw on the depth and experience of contemplation and the relationships that has been cultivated. This work is an opportunity to experiment with creating in a new way.</li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">3. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">What should be included in the application materials?</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">In addition to general information we ask that you provide two short pieces of writing describing why you are applying for this fellowship, and what role art plays in your life and the world. We also ask for an uploaded portfolio. This could take the form of video, still images, audio, or written material.</li>
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">We have a working list of recommended centers and programs however we aim to tailor retreats and workshops to a fellow’s needs.</li>
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Unlike many traditional fellowships, we are supporting artists with a question in mind. Can art serve to help the world, and if so what does that require of the artist? It is our belief that there are certain practices for the artist that aid this question, such as contemplation, meditation, relaxation, listening, and discipline. As a result, we are providing a context for an artist to investigate those elements on their own and within community.</li>
<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">This is also our pilot program year, so much of it is an experiment. We are seeking artists who are committed to, or interested in being committed to, this view of art and life so that we can fine-tune our fellowship and create community as we learn. </li>
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">We believe that art has the capacity to genuinely help our world, to instill it with sanity, love, joy, and beauty. This does not mean that art has to look a certain way, or achieve a standard aesthetic of some kind. (We are not advocating a “love and light” approach to art at all.) It does mean that art needs to be tethered to Truth, according to the logic of the piece being created. We accept that there is an order, a truth, within life and craft. As a viewer, we instinctively know this kind of art when we see it. It might disturb us, cheer us up, or confuse us, but somehow we recognize that we aren’t being lied to. This is refreshing. In today’s art world there is a tremendous amount of energy put into cleverness, shock, and wit in order to build up one’s career or image as an artist. We are advocating another way, perhaps a longer road.</li>
<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">How does one cultivate this tether to truth? Our inspiration has been through slowing down, making friends with yourself though meditation and contemplation, spending the time to really master your craft and listen to the materials, and fine-tuning the senses as tools for communication. Most of all, we are interested in supporting you to genuinely find your way.</li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">7. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">What kind of work/artist does Hemera Foundation want to support?</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">At this time there isn’t one kind of work that we are more interested in supporting than another. We will work with an artist who can articulate and demonstrate a genuine interest in living this total artistic life and design a fellowship program that best suits them. The only requirement is that you have a demonstrable commitment to art making as a central part of your life and a desire to purse meditation/contemplation as a part of your art and life.</li>
<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">A “demonstrable commitment” does not mean that you are professional or attempting to be professional, necessarily; it means that you have spent time on your craft already and experienced the road of creativity enough to supply some body of work illustrative of your artistic interest. We will not be supporting craft development with this fellowship, so it is important that the artist already has a strong sense of the mechanics and lineage of the craft that they are engaged in.</li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">8. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">How does Hemera Foundation define “artist?” Or “contemplative artist?”</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">In this context, the definition of “artist” is one who is meeting their craft with the view and practice of meditation. It is not necessarily someone who is paid for his or her work. However, it is also not someone who is engaged in a craft with only personal interests, ex. therapeutic interests. “Artist” may also be extended to someone who is living their daily life with a sense of awareness and creativity.</li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">9. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">How often are the Tending Space Fellowships offered?</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">There are no art forms that we will automatically rule out. It’s also possible that an artist has a project that they would like to devote time to starting or finishing. If this is the case, we would like to dialogue with you about how it might be impacted by this amount of retreat and support, and if you are open to it changing as you go.</li>
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<li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The fellowship program is open to groups and ensembles but the dollar amount provided will not change, so the total will be divided among the members (i.e., allocated to the group as a whole and not the individual members).</li>
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A recent submission of work from <b>Xingyang Cai </b>has such a unique and interesting contemporary feeling to it. The surreal use of color and lighting is half unsettling, half soothing. There is a subtle sensuality that also seemingly borders on the pornographic. In other words, I look at these images with a sense of uncertainty and my reaction may depend on my mood or emotions. I see an almost <i><a href="http://www.kyuryudo.co.jp/design/sagawa048/eng/index.htm" target="_blank">Ikebana</a></i> sculptural quality to these images.They capture momentary slices of the cycles of impermanence, as well as nature's war between perceived beauty and the grotesque.Sculpture acting as metaphor to our own particular sensitivities. A metaphor from the soul, resonating within.<br />
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I asked <b>Xingyang Cai</b> to send me a brief statement about this series using his native language...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">自从波普艺术流行以来,人民看待身边事物的眼光也发生了变化。</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">物质世界的一切仿佛被赋予了第二种身份,某种象征性的隐喻。</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">这种现象让我非常着迷,我试图去发现物体的颜色,</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">质地和形状可以给人带来的某种暗示。</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">就像有些材质和颜色总能激发人的性幻想,</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">而有些颜色和结构会显得冷酷和遥不可及。</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">而特定的事物往往可以给人更加直接的感受,</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">他们可能是某种特定品牌的商品或是某种食物。</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">他们就像被定义了某种生活的态度或是文化因素。</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">我在拍摄这组静物的时候非常注意颜色的搭配,</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">包括背景和色光的选用。每次会尝试多种搭配的方式,</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">最后挑选让我满意的效果。</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"><i>"Pop Art remains popular as people look at things through evolving eyes. All the material world seems to have been given a second identity, some symbolic metaphor. I was very fascinated by this phenomenon, I tried to find the color of objects, textures and shapes that can bring some kind of hint. Like some of the material and color can always inspire people's sexual fantasies, and some color and structure will become cold and distant. And certain things can often give a more direct experience, they may be a particular brand of product or some food. They are defined as the attitude of some of life or cultural factors. I pay attention to the color mix in this group still life when shooting, including choice of background and shade. Each tries to match a variety of ways, and finally let me pick satisfactory results".</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">我是一个自由摄影师也是还是一名在校大学生。</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">我深爱着</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">当代</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">艺术和摄影。主要拍摄人像和静物,</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">摄影的过程对我来说很像是装置艺术。我组合好被摄物和光,</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">背景的关系。 然后再用相机记录下来,所以其实花在摄影本身的时间是很短的。</span><br />
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February 1- April 27, 2014<br />
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<i>"My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician,films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor... sometimes they all work together. Also, many of my paintings have been done by a painter, sculpture by a sculptor, films by a filmmaker, music by a musician".</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The <i>Philadelphia Museum of Art</i> presents the photographic work of Canadian filmmaker, painter, sculptor,composer, writer, visual artist, & musician <b>Michael Snow</b> (b. 1928), the first United States exhibition of Snow's work in over four decades. This is a brilliantly presented collection of work curated by <b>Adelina Vlas</b>, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at PMA. This is the first major exhibit curated by Vlas, and it is solid in every way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are not familiar with the photography of Michael Snow, join the club. The only previous exhibition of Snow's work was a 1976 Museum of Modern Art showing of ten pieces in <a href="http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/projects/michael-snow-photographs/" target="_blank">Projects: Michael Snow- Photographs</a>. Despite the fact that Snow's 1967 film <i>Wavelength</i> is often cited as one of the greatest underground and art house films ever made, his work has received almost no critical attention in the United States. <i>Wavelength</i> might be the best place to start if you want to explore Snow's work. It is a 45 minute zoom-in. Excruciatingly structural, with no apparent plot, there is no turning back once you have engaged with this film. See for yourself, love it or hate it...</span><br />
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Several visual elements from <i>Wavelength</i> make appearances in the current PMA exhibit. Snow's first photographic work, <b>Four to Five</b> (1962) consists of 16 silver prints all including the same cardboard silhouette of a walking woman placed in various outdoor environments. <b>Atlantic</b> (1967) is a grid of thirty metallic open ended boxes, each containing a photograph of choppy surface water. If you took the time to watch <i>Wavelength</i> to completion, you will notice the silhouetted walking woman and the water image as the film reaches its final frames.</div>
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Virtually every piece in this exhibit engages the viewer. Cerebral and puzzling conceptual work mixes well with lighthearted and outright funny work. Several works require physical movement in order to be fully appreciated. <b>Atlantic</b> (1967) becomes a performing sculpture as the viewer moves about the room. <b>Crouch, Leap, Land</b> (1970) offers up a unique surprise to those willing and able to crouch low enough to peek underneath these hanging images. <b>In Medias Res</b> (1998), among the most enjoyable works in this exhibit, is a floor mounted image that must be walked around to completely appreciate, and <b>Powers of Two</b> (2003) is a large four panel transparency suspended from the ceiling that is meant to be viewed from both sides as a cohesive single image. The exhibit is spaciously displayed with a very contemporary feel. The vibe I got was as if walking into a street level gallery in Chelsea rather than the usual stodginess of a museum.<br />
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At a time when major institutions are exploring <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/arts/design/with-cameras-optional-new-directions-in-photography.html?_r=0" target="_blank">photography's identity crisis</a> and still (yawn) asking "<i>What is a Photograph</i>?", it is refreshing beyond words to experience first hand the mature confidence of an artist who has quietly engaged in the dialogues of modern and conceptual art, moving 'art' into photography, without the slightest sense of genre specific insecurity. Snow bridges all the gaps, both representational and generational. There is deep wisdom and intelligence to be found in every corner of this show that opens on February 1st and runs until April 27th. I'll go out on a limb and suggest that this is the most important photography exhibit you should see in 2014.<br />
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C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-41168510002101769712013-12-31T17:43:00.003-05:002013-12-31T17:43:19.370-05:00Favorite Books 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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My five favorite books of 2013... and this was a year that I did some solid collecting... <b><i>Holy Bible</i></b>, <b><i>PIGS</i></b>, <b><i>Iris Garden</i></b>, and all three LBM Dispatches (<b><i>Three Valleys</i></b>, <b><i>Colorado</i></b>, <b><i>Texas Triangle</i></b>) to name drop a few. I liked them all but these were my top five. Click the photo captions for book details.</div>
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1. Favorite overall- <b>Emmet Gowin</b></div>
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<br />2. Favorite exhibit publication- <b>Ink Art</b><br /><br />
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<br />3. Most fun - <b>Ping Pong</b><br /><br />
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<br />2. Best curating - <b>The Unphotographable</b><br /><br />
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<br />5. Most fascinating- <b>Various Small Books</b><br /><br />
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<br />Happy New Year! My resolution for 2014 is to attend some Photobook Fairs. (I didn't attend any in 2013).<br /><br />C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-4494805052603761282013-12-26T11:08:00.001-05:002013-12-26T11:08:19.894-05:00Happy Holidays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-3426440395823475762013-08-21T10:48:00.001-04:002013-08-21T10:48:11.188-04:00Surreal Illusionism<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/fi/lehdisto/10737">The Surreal Illusionism</a> exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">features nearly 500 photographic postcards that offer a surprising wealth</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of pictorial ideas, high artistic quality and photographic allure. Surreal</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fantasies, mysterious dreams, role-play, glamorous divas and irony are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">running wild in the postcards. All these will transport viewers into the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fascinating, forgotten golden era of industrial photography in the early</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">20th century and the early history of modern photographic art.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The late 1890s saw the emergence of a number of factories in Europe that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were involved in the creation of a new art form. Photographs were not</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">printed on the cards, like today, but, instead, real photographs were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">produced by using mechanised exposures and development processes. The</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">production of photographic postcards, also known as "real photo</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">postcards", became a sizable industry, and the end products were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">distributed as far away as South America and Australia. The phenomenon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">only lasted for two decades but resulted in millions of photographs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Today, these cards are coveted collector's items.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From today's perspective, photographic postcards are fascinating</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">particularly because of the photomontage techniques used. The combination</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of images and drawings, and multiple exposure were some of the methods</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">used in industrial photography a hundred years before "photoshopping".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Because industrial colour photography was yet to be invented, the cards</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were coloured by hand. It is the craft that makes these mass-produced</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">images unique. The synthetic world of colours further increases the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">mystery of the images.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The golden age of photographic postcards drew on the urban popular culture</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that began to emerge in the early 20th century. The rise of the cinema,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the modern culture of sun-bathing, eroticism, circus and variety shows</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">inspired the imagery of the cards. Technical innovations, such as the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">aeroplane, stimulated the imagination.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The heyday of postcards began to wane after the First World War. The</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">various innovations, however, lingered on. Artistic ideas such as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">synthetic cubism and collage are based on expressive techniques that were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">used in the postcards as early as the beginning of the 20th century.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In the 1920s and 1930s, a group of avant-garde artists and poets began to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">draw inspiration from dreams, fantasy and the depths of the unconscious.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">An art movement known as surrealism emerged. The photographic postcards</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">presented at the exhibition were "surrealist" before the word was even</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">invented!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The exhibition also includes an installation created specifically by</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">artist Jouko Korkeasaari for this show.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The curator of the exhibition is art researcher, docent Harri Kalha.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Kalha's book Ihme ja kumma: surrealismia ja silmänlumetta 1900-luvun alun</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">postikorttitaiteessa (WSOY 2012) serves as a good companion to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">exhibition.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The exhibition is part of the 2013 Helsinki Festival.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Fantasy Card Competition together with Paletti Oy:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Further information on the exhibition:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Chief curator Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger 050 518 7619,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="mailto:anna-kaisa.rastenberger@fmp.fi" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;">anna-kaisa.rastenberger@fmp.fi</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Curator Reetta Haarajoki, </span><a href="tel:%2B358%2050%20432%207562" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" value="+358504327562">+358 50 432 7562</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="mailto:reetta.haarajoki@fmp.fi" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;">reetta.haarajoki@fmp.fi</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Further information on workshops, guided tours and public program: Head of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">education and public programmes Erja Salo, </span><a href="tel:%2B358%2044%202706216" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" value="+358442706216">+358 44 2706216</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="mailto:erja.salo@fmp.fi" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;">erja.salo@fmp.fi</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Exhibition hours Tue–Sun, 11–18 Wed, 11–20. Admission fees 8 / 6 euros,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">under-18’s free.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Finnish Museum of Photography, Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 G,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">00180 Helsinki</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tel. </span><a href="tel:%2B358%209%206866%203621" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" value="+358968663621">+358 9 6866 3621</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> / </span><a href="mailto:fmp@fmp.fi" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;">fmp@fmp.fi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> / </span><a href="http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en</a></span></div>
<br />C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-3947042416306729662013-08-11T13:11:00.003-04:002013-08-11T13:11:41.329-04:00Book Sculpture<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-91343214374059201922013-08-10T13:03:00.002-04:002013-08-10T13:03:31.104-04:00Weekend Mail...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />I received some mail art today! A nice abstract painted over recycled concert promo mailer from Arcadia University. I love the way the text from the original mailer shows ever so slightly through Claudia's applied paint. You can see more of Claudia McGill's mail artistry <a href="http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/ClaudiaMcGill?xg_source=profiles_friendList">here</a>.<br /><br />
And her website.... <a href="http://claudiamcgill.com/">ClaudiaMcGill.com</a>C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-60632101251972330052013-08-09T16:14:00.002-04:002013-08-09T16:35:34.143-04:00Upcycled Books<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cereal Bowl Book</i> (2013)</td></tr>
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<br />C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-5740118607804630662013-08-04T11:21:00.002-04:002013-08-04T11:23:41.882-04:00Altered Books & Journals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"Chaos" </i>(art journal. 2008)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"Illness & Recovery" </i>(journals. 2007)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"Divine Mother of Tears" </i>(altered book. 2013)</td></tr>
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<br />C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-56884511641555328792013-07-22T14:15:00.000-04:002013-07-22T14:15:00.189-04:00Mail Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've recently discovered the fun of exchanging art through the mail. If this is something you would like to get involved in, join me at <a href="http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/ChristopherPaquette">International Union of Mail Artists</a> and let's start trading.</div>
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The photo above is some postcards I made over the weekend. Just some goofy collage cards made from old ephemera; 1920's Newspapers, 1950's How-To book, 1960's Comic Book, and some 1990's Patriot Militia Newsletters. Quite the odd mix!</div>
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I'm working on a post featuring some of the artists who have sent me work. Stay tuned for some unique art features! </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br />Here is a free to enter call for work from the first ever Warsaw Photo Days festival to be held in October 2013 in Warsaw, Poland<br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Submissions are now being accepted for Warsaw Photo Days 2013 Open Programme based under the theme ‘CLASH’.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Open Programme welcomes entries from visual artists both nationally and internationally, supporting all disciplines of photographic (and photography-based) practice.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Our Jury will select 3-5 projects which will be exhibited during the festival.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our theme - ‘CLASH’ - may be understood and interpreted in a number of ways e.g.: mixed media practices, opposites, meetings, collisions, borders, body / spirituality, male / female, pixel / grain, full / void, culture / nature, passive / active, tradition / modernity, life / death, open / closed, light / dark, synthesis, pop culture / kitsch / high culture, global / local, documentary / fiction and others.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">We are looking for both photographic and mixed media projects using photography and/ or video.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Submissions sent by email to open@warsawphotodays.com have to include the following: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">pdf containing a set of photographs from the project (resolution 72 dpi), file size up to 5Mb; <br />description in pdf - max. 1800 characters, that obligatory includes: <br />project statement; <br />information whether or not the project has already been presented (if so, where); <br />proposed formats and technical description; <br />brief artist’s bio; <br />for video work - a link to a web page; <br />contact information (email, phone, Skype, mailing address). <br /><br /><br />Our Jury will decline your submission if it does not follow all the guidelines.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">All applications must be received by September 5, 2013 (23:59 CET).</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">One artist can submit one project for consideration.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">There is no entry fee.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">IMPORTANT DATES: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Application deadline: 5 September 2013 (23:59 CET) <br />Results: 15 September 2013 - announced on www.warsawphotodays.com <br />Exhibitions: 4-31 October 2013 </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Detailed rules of participation can be found in the </span><a href="http://www.warsawphotodays.com/docs/TermsAndConditionsProgramOpen_WPD_2013_EN.pdf" style="font-size: small;">Terms and conditions</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> of the competition.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WarsawPhotoDays" style="font-size: small;">Warsaw Photo Days Facebook Group</a>C H Paquettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08892454483065666234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419329911345149479.post-53446546959816470052013-07-15T11:09:00.002-04:002013-07-15T11:09:54.208-04:00Free up some art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">"copyright is a barrier to free flow of artistic creation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">promote the free exchange of art.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">dissolve proprietary art."</span></div>
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<br />Here's a great 4th of July exhibit put together by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cristawdix?hc_location=stream">Crista Dix</a> of <a href="http://ws-flatfile.com/art-zone-sb/">Wall Space Gallery</a>... Lot's of familiar names. It is fun to see each person's take on this special day.<br /><br /><h1 class="site-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">
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