Scholarship Application Form January 2012

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Portfolio Review Information: Fall 2011

The portfolio reviews are designed to give advanced Photography students experience presenting and speaking about their work, to give students the opportunity  to receive feedback and criticism from visiting artists, critics, image makers and/or faculty whom they may not have had the opportunity to work with.

These reviews are an excellent opportunity to get feedback on projects in preparation for a professional career, a portfolio for graduate studies and/or the creation of a senior thesis project.

Participation in portfolio reviews is mandatory for Photography Major and Minors, Juniors and Seniors.

Please pay attention to the following details:

·       All portfolio reviews will take place in the Dunning Conference Room which is located on the Second Floor of the Student Art Gallery Building. If you don’t know where this room is located, be sure to look for it the day before the review to ensure you are on time

·       There are 19 twenty minute time slots available on Friday, December 9 from 9-5:30 Each panel will consist of 3 LMU Photography Faculty, an additional LMU faculty or staff member, a Visiting Artist and an Alumnus from the Photography Area. Bios of the outside artists will be posted on the sign up sheet so that you can sign up for a review with someone whose work most interests you or most relates to your own interests. Outside artists and alum are currently being finalized, and will be added to the document as they are confirmed.

·       DO NOT BE LATE TO YOUR REVIEW!!! The reviews are only 20 minutes long, so it is essential that you come prepared and are on time so that you can take full advantage of the time that has been allotted to you. We have to stay on schedule. So, if you are ten minutes late, you willonly have a ten minute review.

·       Students should bring work from one or two bodies of work to present and receive feedback on as opposed to bringing a selection of images which are unrelated to one another. It can be work from a series that is in progress and is not yet complete, but the images should be part of one or two larger bodies of work.  Since it is close to finals, it may be appropriate to bring work that is in progress for your final project as well as an earlier project. Or, if you are a senior, work you are preparing for your thesis project.

·       Plan to introduce the work by speaking about the underlying concept or theme of the work, your intentions as an artist and a summary of your progress. Also come prepared with some specific questions you have about the work and specific things that you would like feedback on.

·       Students being reviewed can invite another student to the review who would act as a note-taker so that the reviewed student has a record and summary of what was said that can be reflected on afterwards.

·       Students should bring prints unless the work being shown is meant to be seen projected (ie: slideshows, etc)

·       Since the reviews are relatively short, it is recommended that you bring no more than ten images- Ideally, either ten images from one series or 4-6 images from two different series

·       If you are a senior major who will be participating in the departmental thesis exhibition this Spring, it is highly recommended that you bring some work related to your thesis project.

Lenscratch recently posted images from Raul Guerrero’s recent project in which he provided diposable cameras to kids in Tanzania. The project will be exhibited in Los Angeles in the coming year and will be made into a book project. To read more about the project:

http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/11/raul-guerrero.html

“lie both in the qualities it shares with cinema and, more importantly, the things still photography can achieve that movies cannot.”

Dan shoots primarily with a Toyo 4×5 field camera and has been inspired  by a wide range of artists and directors which includes Alec Soth, Bruce Davidson, Jeff Wall, Alfred Stieglitz. Cinema and elsewhere: François Truffaut, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jim Jarmusch, Ingmar Bergman, Sven Nykvist, Christopher Doyle, Vittorio Storaro, Edward Hopper, Richard Brautigan.

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Womynhouse is a a collaborative project on the contemporary female experience in The Thomas P. Kelly Student Art Gallery on Thursday, October 20th, from 6-9pm. 

Womynhouse will be open until November 11th and will have lots of exciting events all taking place in TPK Student Gallery:

Friday, October 21st, 5-7pm: 5 for 5  A discussion featuring 5 LMU faculty and administration, stories told by Rosalie Siemon, Ilana Schacter, Dean Barbara Busse, Emily Ravenscroft, and Sue Scheibler. 

Monday, October 31st, 8pm: Halloween Party Come dressed as your favorite woman in history!

Tuesday, November 1st, 8pm: Womyn Word Open to all students to share poetry, prose, and stories! 

Wednesday, November 2nd, 8pm: Womyn Perform A Collaborative performance with artists of Craftswoman House, a performance space in Pasadena (www.craftswomanhouse.blogspot.com) Also open to all students who would like to perform.

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Flash Forward 2012 Submissions Now Open!

The Magenta Foundation is pleased to announce Year Eight of Flash Forward,
its Emerging Photographers Competition, along with some BIG NEWS:

2012 will bring two Flash Forward Festival installments to the ongoing program. June 2012 will see us back in Boston at the Fairmont Battery Wharf; October 2012 will mark the return of the original Toronto festival.*
Along with TD Bank Financial Group, our long-standing Flash Forward Presenting Sponsor, we are thrilled to welcome our new Flash Forward partner: Fairmont Hotels & Resorts/Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston. We are grateful to add another elite sponsor to share our goal of promoting the work of international emerging photographers.
Please join us in thanking TD Bank Financial Group and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts/Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, for helping to make Flash Forward the world’s most prestigious juried competition for international emerging photography.

• This is an open call for submissions.
• Open to all photographers working in Canada, the UK and the US, 34 years-of-age and under.
• All submission requirements and upload instructions may be reviewed here:
• magentafoundation.org/submissions/ff2012

Jurors for 2012 are:
Canada:

• Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie, Photo Editor, enRoute Magazine
• Erin Elder, Business Development & Partnerships, Digital Media, The Globe and Mail
• J.J. Kegan McFadden, Director/Curator; PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts
• Erin Stump, Erin Stump Projects

UK:

• Diane Smyth, British Journal of Photography, London
• Stefanie Braun, Senior Curator, Photographers’ Gallery
• Francesca Sears, Director o f Profile, Panos Pictures

US:

• Holly Stuart Hughes, Editor, Photo District News
• Daniel Cooney, Daniel Cooney Fine Art
• Paul Moakley, Deputy Photo Editor, TIME

Invited International Jurors:

• Lisa Botos, Ooi Botos Gallery, Hong Kong
• Sujong Song, Independent Curator and Publisher, Korea

The 2012 Flash Forward Bright Spark Award Winner will be presented with a cash prize of $5,000.
As in the past, all 2012 Flash Forward Winners and Honourable Mentions will have their work published in the catalogue that chronicles the annual juried competition.
The 2012 Flash Forward Group Exhibition Opening will take place as part of the Flash Forward Festival’s program of nightly events.
Please make your submissions via our web site at
magentafoundation.org/submissions/ff2012
* To be clear, the annual Flash Forward competition will continue to take place each year, complemented by biennial Flash Forward Festivals every other year.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is hosting the Face of Our Time Student Photography Competition in conjunction with the Face of Our Timeexhibition, which will be on view at UMMA November 12, 2011 through February 5, 2012.

Face of Our Time examines more than 100 works by five photographers - Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, and Richard Misrach - who operate within what Walker Evans referred to as the “documentary style.” They are photographers interested in looking reflectively at contemporary culture and recording history as it is experienced; from the migration of illegal immigrants from Africa to Europe to the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy in New Orleans.

The exhibition title references the German photographer August Sander’s first book,Face of Our Time (1929), a survey of the German people and a typology of the class structure in his country in that eventful year. “Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography… Let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age.” - August Sander

This competition offers students the opportunity to have their photograph featured in a digital slide-show on display in the gallery along with the exhibit. The slide-show will be comprised of 20 finalists selected by UMMA’s Student Programming and Advisory Board.

Deadline for entries is Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

For entry form and more information:

http://annex.umma.umich.edu/photocompetition

Art 100: LMU’s Alumni Artists

September 10 – November 20, 2011

As part of Loyola Marymount University’s centennial festivities, the Laband Art Gallery will be the home of ART 100 a year-long celebration of LMU artists. The first in the series will be a juried alumni exhibition open to all alumni of LMU’s College of Communication and Fine Arts.

Jurors:
Kaileena Flores-Emnace, Art Education, Class of 2008, LMU
Carolyn Peter, Director and Curator, Laband Art Gallery, LMU
Damon Willick, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, LMU

Saturday, September 24, 2011, 2:30-5pm
Opening reception and Alumni dance performance
2:30pm, Dance performance, Dance Studio, Burns Fine Art Center
3-5pm, Reception, Courtyard, Burns Fine Arts Center.
This event is being co-hosted by the College of Communication and Fine Arts, Alumni Relations, LMU’s Dance Program and the Laband Art Gallery.

October 21, 2011, 7pm
Screening of Alumni Short Films
Lawton Event Plaza
This event is a collaboration between the Laband Art Galley and the School of Film and Television

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 7pm
Alumni and Current Students Dramatic Reading of “Speak Truth to Power”
This event is a collaboration between the Laband Art Gallery and LMU’s Theatre Arts Program