Daily Archives: 05/26/2009

Juried exhibition and auction – partial benefit for Carmel’s Center for Photographic Art

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The Center for Photographic Art, located in the beach resort town of Carmel, California, will host a juried photography exhibition and auction this year and invites submissions from members and non-members (non-members pay a small fee.) Currently the gallery showcases a variety of photos taken by, and of, Ansel Adams, curated by the artist’s family. Highlights of the show include the captions, describing critical reviews and the professional and ecological impact of Adams’ work.

Submissions for the upcoming event, which will benefit both the accepted artists and the Center for Photographic Art, are due July 15th. The Center requests images on a CD initially, and then prints for those who are selected to take part in the gala auction.

More information, contacts, and full submission guidelines and instructions are available here: http://www.photographicart.com/cpa/juryexhibit.html

Would encourage everyone to visit the exhibit – was personally inspired by the description of curator Stieglitz as ‘allowing the artists to work and be shown with dignity, and to work as they chose.’

Writers’ Workshop Opportunity: Femina Potens Gallery

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WRITE HERE! WRITE NOW!
WRITERS’ WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN & QUEERS
 
Beginning the last week of May, Femina Potens will be offering an intensive writers’ workshop for women and Queers directed by the talented Beth Mattson.  The work shop will culminate in a reading performance with the National Queer Arts Festival on Thursday, June 25th. The theme of the workshop will be Identity, and poets and creative non-fiction authors are welcome if comfortable with the fiction writers’ perspective. Authors will meet for four weeks on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, starting on May 26th, from 7:00 – 10:00pm. The group will be capped at a total of nine authors, and there will be a flat fee of $80 to help cover the costs of the reading and workshop space. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, but contact the gallery quickly, as the first nine writers to make a deposit will be included in the workshop, and the rest will be placed on a waiting list.
 
To make a $20 deposit and reserve your place in June’s intensive Identity workshop, please purchase a Workshop Deposit Ticket as soon as possible at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/60371 (the remaining amount will be due on May 26th).


Please email Beth Mattson at fpwritersworkshop@gmail.com with questions, interest or sliding scale inquiries. And keep your literary eyes wide open – starting in July, Femina will also be offering broader, longer writers’ workshops.
 
 
 Femina Potens Writers’ Workshop with Beth Mattson
May 26 – June 25, 2009
Femina Potens Art Gallery
Tickets: $80.00 sliding scale (No one will be turned away for lack of funds)
 
2199 Market St | San Francisco, CA 94114 US

Event announcement – Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keefe

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Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities

Monday, June 29  7:00 pm

Join us for an exciting SFMOMA museum presentation/slideshow on Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams — two of America’s best-known artists — are both revered for their ability to capture, in their own unique ways, the essence of natural beauty. The two met for the first time in 1929 while in Taos, New Mexico, and despite a 15-year age gap and differing personalities, they developed a lifelong friendship through their shared admiration of the natural world. O’Keeffe and Adams corresponded over the years, visited one another, and sometimes traveled together to sites that became subjects of their artwork. Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities brings together nearly 100 works from the painter and the photographer, revealing the parallels between their distinctive visions of the natural world. An introductory gallery provides a context for their art, with works by contemporaries such as Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Weston.

 
ATHERTON LIBRARY

2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane
Atherton Ca 94027

650-328-2422