TOO MUCH CHOCOLATE + KODAK FILM GRANT via Carlagirl.net

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TOO MUCH CHOCOLATE + KODAK FILM GRANT

(Thanks, Orville, and what’s up, Kodak? Is this surplus film? A commitment to continue film production?)

Too much chocolate is excited to partner with Kodak in offering its first-ever film grant program, with submissions opening September 1st, 2009. This grant will provide 10 non-represented photographers with the film needed to execute a new or ongoing personal project, to be completed during 2010. This partnership aims to recognize strong project ideas from talented and emerging photographers, allowing them to fully realize a body of work that may not have been achieved otherwise. At the start of 2011, the recipients’ final projects will be brought together and exhibited through a variety of online, magazine, and gallery showcases.

The web site URL is http://toomuchchocolate.org/?page_id=1127Film

Submission window: Sept. 1st - Nov. 1st, 2009
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Patti Russotti: Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook [Faculty]

Patti Russotti has a new book soon to be released, Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook guides professional photographers and image makers through best practices and workflow keeping in mind a universal perspective about digital knowledge that exists outside of specific software programs. Some other topics covered include terminology, image archiving and capture, conversion, proofing, and image delivery.

The book is accompanied with an introduction by Therese Mulligan and co-authored by Richard Anderson.

Opportunity for Grads: Juried Show on Childhood

Therese thought this might be a good opportunity for grads:
From an email via William Tolan

Jamie Lee Curtis is jurying a show on the theme of Childhood for the Texas Photographic Society and I was hoping either some of you had work you'd want to enter (she's a big photo collector so would be a good contact) and/or you could pass this info on to friends/family/students. Thanks very much!

Deadline is Oct. 2nd-ish (they'll take entries a couple days late if necessary).

here's a link: http://www.texasphoto.org/TPS-Children.html

Suz Szucs speaks at ASU [Faculty]

Found this update via (every photographer's friend) Mary Virginia Swanson's site.

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Suz Szucs will be speaking Oct. 1st about her project "Journal, In Progress" at ASU's campus.

Northlight Gallery currently features the work of Suzanne Szucs in the 'Hall of Mirrors' exhibition. Szucs will discuss her work "Journal, In Progress", for which she photographed herself every day for 15 years using the Polaroid process. Szucs currently teaches at RIT where she is an artist in residence.

Suz is participating in the current exhibition"Hall of Mirrors" at ASU, a group show of female artists exploring identity through self-representation and issues of feminism.

More information on Suz's presentation HERE.

Reminder: GEH Panel Discussion Tonight

Panel discussion featuring New Topographic photographers Deal and Gohlke is happening tonight.

At George Eastman House, Dryden Theater @ 5:30 p.m.

More info HERE.

The Big Shot on The Bigger Picture via Christin Boggs [MFA 2010]

Well, RIT's "Big Shot" event has been mentioned on Smithsonian's Photography Initiative blog. This year's event will take place in D.C. and will capture the National Museum of the American Indian. It is a public event, so the more the merrier, as the saying goes.

More information about this year's "Big Shot" Here!

Angela Kelly presenting at CAA 2010 [Faculty, MFA Coordinator]

Angela Kelly will be presenting her recent project on Belfast Ireland at the CAA conference this year. Her new work, made in a post-troubles Belfast N. Ireland, Catharsis, will be presented at the College Arts Association National Conference in Chicago in February, 2010.

For more information on the College Art Association and Conference, click HERE.

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Angela has been working on multiple projects recently no least of which includes receiving an artist in residence fellowship at the Saltonstall residency for the month of August, where she created a body of new work exploring the vernacular language of the landscape genre.

She was recently interviewed by Portfolio magazine, a premier international magazine of photography from the UK, discussing her contribution to an influential historical exhibition she co- curated at the Hayward Gallery in London, Three Perspectives on Photography, as background research for its November issue.

In addition, her past work and an updated bio is included in the new edition of Naomi Rosenblum’s A History of Women Photographers to be published by Abrams Press in March 2010.

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Just a reminder that an MFA Google Calendar exists, which contains the dates for the CAA conference among other things. You may view this public calendar HERE.

(un)natural worlds: John Aäsp Curator [MFA 2007]

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A group show of photographic art from seven contemporary artists, curated by John Aäsp, is currently on display at the Rockport Center for the Arts:

"The unnatural, that too is natural." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Join seven contemporary artists using photographic processes to create worlds of intrigue, curiosity, and personal vision.

On view September 9-October 10, 2009.

This show includes work from Dornith Doherty, Susan Dunkerley, Charles Lindsay, Stefan Petranek, Ansen Seale, Trish Simonite, and Sterz. Stefan Petranek is another RIT MFA Alumnus who also teaches here in SPAS. The imagery for(un)natural worlds extends the gamut of aesthetics and ideologies concerned with the connections between science and visual languages used in our representations of the spectacle that is Nature. I am sad that I won't be home in Texas to see this show, but the artists' sites are definitely worth taking a look at. Enjoy!

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John Aäsp is currently Curator and Visual Arts Director at Rockport Center for the Arts on the Gulf Coast of Texas, where he also serves as co-director for the Rockport Film Festival.

a brief review of the show is HERE at Glasstire.com, under Rockport.

GEH: Panel discussion Features New Topographic Photographers

Ok, you all won't want to miss this! Please put this event on your calendars. Panel discussion features New Topographic photographers Deal and Gohlke.

At George Eastman House:

Thursday, September 24 at 5:30 p.m.

In conjunction with the reinstallation of New Topographics at Eastman House this summer, New Topographics photographers Joe Deal and Frank Gohlke join co-curators Alison Nordström of Eastman House and Britt Salvesen of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to discuss the re-creation of this landmark 1975 exhibition. Widely recognized as a seminal moment in the history of photography, this time New Topographics is accompanied with extensive interpretive historic material and a catalog published by Steidl. On view at Eastman House through September 27, the exhibition will travel throughout the US until late 2010 then continue on a European tour. A booksigning will follow the panel discussion. Included with Museum admission.

FREE to students with ID. Dryden Theatre.

Also, a reminder that the New Topographics show at George Eastman House will be coming to an end Sept. 27; if you haven't seen the show yet, you should go see it before it's too late!

More info. about The George Eastman House HERE,
To become a member, click HERE.

Reminder: Mother Daughter Book Launch

Today in SPAS Gallery 5-8p.
More information HERE

Reminder: Digital Den Trade Show

This is a reminder that the Digital Den will have a mini tradeshow tomorrow, Sept. 16 from 10-4. The digital den is located on campus in the SAU, on the second floor.

Art: 21 Preview Event

Please mark your calendars for this public event!

The MFA program will host a preview of selections from Art: 21 Season 5 on October 8, in the Chester Carlson Auditorium, Building 76 at RIT, at 4pm.The screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Angela Kelly with faculty, Jessica Lieberman, Alex Miokovic, Carla Williams, Oscar Palacio, Christine Shank and Chip Sheffield. It is open to the public. Alumni are very welcome!

Selections will be shown from episodes:
Fantasy
Systems
Transformation

For more information about this George-Foster Peabody Award-winning television series, you can visit: art21.org and blog.art21.org

Bugchaser: Protective Measures Video at ImageOut Film Festival: Scott LaForce [MFA 2009]

Scott's video Buchaser: Protective Measures is playing at the Little Theater on October 11th, at 9:15pm as part of the 17th annual ImageOut film festival.

Little Theater Location is:
240 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 258-0400

The website for the festival, including scheduling information and how to purchase tickets is at: http://www.imageout.org/2009/welcome.php

Reminder: SPE Scholarships Due Nov. 1

Christine wanted me to remind all the students that Nov. 1 is the deadline for the SPE National Conference Student Scholarships. It would be awesome if RIT grads received some of these awards!

You can view the scholarship information HERE.

This year's conference theme is, Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts, it will take place March 4-7, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.

ICalendar

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that I have created a public ICal for local RIT MFA events about town. You can view it by searching Google's calendars (RIT MFA), and it is also available at the foot of this blog.

Christin Boggs [MFA 2010] Participating in The Metamorphosis Show

Christin Boggs is participating in the fifth annual Metamorphosis Art Show at Willow Restaurant. This year's beneficiary of the show is Arlington ArtWorks, a community program offering individuals with disabilities the opportunity to expand their creative talents through the arts.

Date:
September 13, 2009
11a-5p

Location:
Willow Restaurant
4301 N. Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA
22203

The Metamorphosis Show's website: http://www.metartshow.com/index.html