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End-of-year cage sale of Tamron lenses

The Tamron lenses we've been using in the cage all year are now for sale at a discount. See the graphic below or the poster outside the cage for prices.

If you purchase, the lens will be sent back to the factory for refurbishing and you get a one year warranty. If you want a new lens, you can do so - at a discount - through a local retailer. A new lens has a six year warranty.

If you want to buy, new or used, please alert Byron and Jille immediately and we can describe the purchase process. The used lenses are first-come, first serve.

A form for the new lens discount prices is here: Download Student_Purchase_Mar3-May4_2019

 

ENCOUNTERS WITH WHITMAN: Open Call for Photography & Video Art

Open Call to all DVAA Members and the Public

Deadline to Submit: May 17th, 11:59pm

"That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering; How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits;How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; —But in these, and among my lovers, and caroling my songs, O I never doubt whether that is really me."
-Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass

Casa de Duende in Collaboration with Da Vinci Art Alliance present Encounters with Whitman, a two part photography and video exhibition in celebration of the Whitman Bicentennial.

Call for video issued separately here:
https://airtable.com/shrmGkTUpGOnv3Xx9

Photography was a medium of fascination and importance to Whitman, in particular portraiture and landscape. The significance of these two themes are also reflected in his own literary work. Whitman's voice in part shaped the American psyche through the portrayal of the American landscape and its peoples. This exhibition will explore the contemporary landscape and portraiture that now defines our American experience. Though Whitman's reflections on America were often problematic, his contributions to modern literature caused cultural shifts worth investigation.

ABOUT THE JURORS:
Stuart Rome has exhibited extensively over the years in solo and group exhibitions - in galleries and museums. Amongst his publications are: Maya, Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, Abrams, 1985; Forest, a monograph, Nazraeli Press, 2005; Signs and Wonders, The Southeast Museum of Photography, 2011. The John Simon Guggenheim fellowship was awarded in 2015 for his most recent work, "Oculus ", photographs from within giant redwoods and sequoias. His interests in anthropology led to projects photographing antiquities in Latin America and Asia as well as recording remnants of these expressions found in the rituals of trance. This documentary work led to landscape photographs of forests as a manifestation of pantheistic energy. In 1985 Stuart Rome was hired to design and build a new Photography Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he continues to teach.

Paul Cava is a photo-based artist who is known for his sensual and emotionally driven collage work. Concentrating on the figure, Cava’s work speaks to the most intrinsic of human concerns. His work has been featured in many publications including Eyemazing Magazine and Das Magazin. Cava was a recipient of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants in 1981 and 1999. In 2005, the German publisher Galerie Vevais, published Walt Whitman / Paul Cava, Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass — a bold union of Whitman’s erotic poems and Cava’s art work.Paul Cava has exhibited paintings, drawings and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and his work has been collected by a broad range of private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, and The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

RULES FOR ENTRY:
You may submit 2 artworks
Label the back of your work with your name and title of artwork
All artwork must be ready to display. Wall hanging pieces must be wired. If your work requires any additional apparatus to be shown, it must be provided.

ENTRY FEE:
DVAA Members: $20
Non-Members: $35

TO SUBMIT:
Simply fill out the fields below, attach an image of your artwork, and click submit. You will then be automatically redirected to another DVAA webpage to pay the entry fee. And that’s it, you’re done!

PRIZES:
1st prize - $150 cash
2nd prize - 1 year Premium Membership ($125 value)
3rd prize - 1 year General Membership ($75 value)

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Submission Deadline: May 17, 11:59pm
Artist Notification: May 24
Artwork Delivery: May 31, 2-4pm & June 2, 12-2pm
Opening Reception: June 7, 6-8pm
Run Dates: June 7 - 16
Artwork Pick Up: June 16, 5-7pm & June 20, 12-2pm

DVAA POLICY:
DVAA is responsible for all press releases, listings, price lists, and gallery labels. Your participation is permission to include images of artwork in promotion. Artwork will be handled with great care, but DVAA is not responsible for loss or damage. Insurance is the responsibility of the artist.
When the work is delivered the exhibitions director reserves the right to refuse works that are not ready to be shown because of improper framing, fragility, damage or low quality.
DVAA members receive 80% commission on artwork and Non-Members receive 70% sold from the exhibition and as a result of contacts made through the DVAA. Payment to the artist will be sent within 30 days.
All artwork must be retrieved during the designated Pick Up times above and cannot leave the gallery early. Artworks left unattended becomes property of the gallery and may be discarded due to very limited storage space.

For any questions please contact bryant@davinciartalliance.org.

Rust Belt Biennial

We are thrilled to introduce you to the first Rust Belt Biennial, a celebration of photography with work realized throughout the Rust Belt region.

For the Biennial open submission juried competition we are happy to announce Andrew L. Moore as the juror.

The first Rust Belt Biennial exhibition will be held at the Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, from August 27th through October 5th 2019.

Opening Reception September 6th.

The artist whose work wins first place will receive a cash prize of 2500 USD and the work will be exhibited at the Sordoni Gallery, with an extensive feature in the catalog and an interview with the Real Photo Show.

Second place will receive a cash prize of 1000 USD and the work will be exhibited at the Sordoni Gallery with an extensive feature in the catalog.

Third place will receive a cash prize of 500 USD and the work will be exhibited at the Sordoni Gallery with an extensive feature in the catalog.

The Rust Belt, its people, the pride and the struggles, the patina of the past and above all, the histories and memories ingrained in the soil across the region. It is time to make new memories and new histories, while revisiting and reevaluating old ones; it is time to start a new dialogue about the state of photography and it’s social, cultural and political effects in our society; it is time to give back to the photographic community but also the region; it is time for you to join us!

For more information please visit us at www.rustbeltbiennial.com

Please feel free to contact us directly at info@rustbeltbiennial.com with any inquiries or collaboration suggestions.

Contemporary Photography Competition and Exhibition IX

Contemporary Photography Competition and Exhibition IX

Juror: Dan Leers
Dan Leers is Curator of Photography at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Two artists will win $5,000 each and concurrent solo exhibitions from December 12, 2019 – February 29, 2020.

Submission Dates: March 1 – June 1, 2019

Entry Fee: $30 for a maximum of 10 images

Applicants should submit:

• Up to 10 images: (maximum file size – 300ppi, 1500 pixels on long side)
• CV
• Artist Statement

PPAC believes contemporary photography takes many forms, so all styles of photography, digital imaging, film/video, and lens-based installation work are welcomed.

About Dan Leers

Dan Leers is Curator of Photography at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a BA in Art History from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin and an MA in Modern Art/Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York. From 2007 to 2011, he was the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At MoMA, he organized the exhibition New Photography 2011: Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali.

As an independent curator, Leers worked on multiple exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. He acted as a Curatorial Advisor on contemporary African art to the 2013 Venice Biennale. He also curated Beyond the Surface: Image as Object and 3 Themes: Contemporary Connections with Paul Strand at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center in 2014-15. He has contributed to many photography publications including Seydou Keïta [Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2016) and Guy Tillim: Of People and Their Places (Germany: Steidl, 2015).

Leers began at the Carnegie in 2015, and has curated the exhibition Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups (2015) as well as consulted with the Hillman Photography Initiative, an incubator for thinking about issues in contemporary photography. His exhibition and book William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography came out in November 2017, and his most recent show, Forum: Deana Lawson appeared at the museum in the spring of 2018.

You can learn about the winners of the 2018-19 competition and their upcoming exhibition here.

On the Origins of Social Reform Photography in America

Timothy H. O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner. Army Repair Shop (detail), 1864. 2013.6.2.20. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund

Complementing our spring exhibition of early photography in Britain and France, Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at Harvard Art Museums, explores the medium’s beginnings in the US. Focusing on social reform photography in the Civil War era, Best will discuss how photographers grappled with the meaning of democracy and the social impact of industrialization. She will also consider the transatlantic dialogues that shaped the medium at this time.

$10; members and students free

Visit https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/photography-lecture# for more information.

PHOTO REVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

NOTED CRITIC, CURATOR, AND WRITER LYLE REXER TO JURY THE 2019 PHOTO REVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

Noted critic, curator, and writer Lyle Rexer will be the juror for the 2019 Photo Review Photography Competition. He is the author of several books on art and photography, including The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009) and Photography’s Antiquarian Avant Garde: the New Wave in Old Processes (2002). In addition, he has published numerous catalogue essays and articles on art, architecture, and photography and contributed to such publications as The New York Times, Art in America, Aperture, Parkett, BOMB, and DAMn. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions in the United States and internationally, most recently The Edge of Vision, a selection of contemporary abstract photography. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is a columnist for Photograph magazine.

The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 35th 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.

Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Plus numerous Editor’s Selections will be exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries.

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.

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 $500 cash award from Blue Flower; a Wacom Intuos tablet; a Lambert 12L camera bag from Cecilia (https://www.shopcecilia.com/collections/camera-bags/products/lambert-camera-messenger-bag-in-black-leather); 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; camera bags from ThinkTank photo and Mission Workshop; a “The Complete Photographer’s Set” from Tog Tees (https://www.togtees.com/collections/all-t-shirts); and several Kodak Printomatic Instant Print Cameras (https://www.kodakphotoplus.com/pages/printomatic).

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.)

All entries must be received by May 31, 2019.

You can download contest rules and submit images at www.photoreview.org/competition. For further information call The Photo Review at 215/891-0214, 340 East Maple Avenue, Suite 200, Langhorne, PA 19047, info@photoreview.org.

THE PHOTO REVIEW
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 semi-annual 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.

The Photo Review 2019 International Photography Competition is sponsored by Wacom, Digital Silver Imaging, Museo, Shades of Paper, Kodak, Mission Workshop, ThinkTank Photo, Haverford College, Blue Flower, and Tog Tees.

Photography Advising Notes for all undergrads - please read!

ADVISING

There are several new things to let you know about upcoming courses and registration in Photography for majors and non-majors. But first, if you need an advising appointment (or to discuss becoming a major), please see Byron during his office hours (look for the dark green blocks). It’s best to confirm a meeting time in advance as I sometimes have unavoidable scheduling conflicts. If, after looking at my office hours you find that our schedules are incompatible, please send me an email to set up a time.

NEW COURSE CODES

The photography course subject codes will be changing for Fall registration. Instead of searching for courses in GAD or PHOT as in past semesters, you should now look under the ART heading. The course numbers will also change but the names of classes will remain exactly the same. To see a new course planning guide for the major with the new course numbers and titles, please link here.

NEW ELECTIVES

We have a number of new classes being offered as electives. One is offered this summer, the other two will be available in the spring. Each of these can count as an elective toward the major. As a reminder, all photo majors are required to take a minimum of one elective and we encourage you to take as many as you can reasonably fit in during your time at Tyler. The full photography schedule for Fall 2019 is available here.

NEW ELECTIVE - SUMMER SESSION ONE!

Photographic Bookmaking, GAD 3400 Special Topics, CRN# 9361 (this is under the “old” GAD listing as listings will change in the Fall) May 13 - 31, M - TR, 9:00 am - 12:20 pm

This intensive 3 week class will explore the different disciplines needed in creating an extended personal statement in the photographic book format. Students will create books using three strategies: the handmade; the cheaply made and free distributed; and the fine art Limited Edition book in a clamshell box. Through these projects students will develop personal work that investigates the visual narrative using photographic processes.

For more information, please contact professor Rebecca Michaels

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ELECTIVES - FALL 2019!

(New!) Photography: Social Documentary ART 3610, Special Topics in Photography, CRN# 41719, Mondays (only) 2:40 - 7:30 PM

This studio course will explore the history and methodology of socially concerned photography, while actively practicing with a focus on a specific topic: hunger and food insecurity in the region of Philadelphia. The NonProfit organization of Philabundance will work with us to sensitively approach communities and individuals using both research and visual narrative techniques as they relate to Photography. The Community Arts program will lend their experience and offer support.The goal will be to create significant socially conceptual work with strong technique, culminating in both digital and physical exhibitions. Studio course for Tyler students of all levels of photographic experience. Digital camera with manual adjustments required.  Open to undergrads (majors and non-majors) and grads.

For more information, please contact professor Martha Madigan

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Digital Projects: Moving Image ART 3606, CRN # 41126, Wednesdays (only) 2:40 - 7:30 PM 

This course will introduce technical and conceptual possibilities of the moving image. Students will explore techniques through formal conventions, traditional narrative and non-linear modes. A practical foundation for digital production techniques will be introduced through various post-production softwares, while developing an effective workflow. Past and contemporary examples will be discussed, from artists across a variety of disciplines working with moving image, providing a historical context and inspiration for experimentation. Open to undergrads (majors and non-majors) and grads.

For information, please contact professor Haigen Pearson.

How to get involved at Vox Populi - an information session

From a Tyler Alumna:

I wanted to share an upcoming event with you that may be relative to your graduating BFA or MFA students. I am an artist member of Vox Populi, and we are holding an information session for the community to learn about all of the ways to get involved with Vox. From becoming a member, to proposing a performance. Basic info here with a link to the web page and FB at the end. Also attaching a graphic in case you end up sending this along! Sorry for the late notice!

Thank you,
Julia Staples

Thursday, March 28, 2019 | Free to Attend

5:30pm: Meet at Vox Populi for Tour of Space

6:00-8:30pm: Happy Hour at The Trestle Inn

Have you ever wondered how to get involved at Vox?

Meet us in the gallery at 5:30 pm for a walk through of the space to learn the capabilities of the Blackbox and project space, as well as a quick history of our organization and it’s non-hierarchal structure. Then, join us for a Happy Hour at our neighborhood bar, The Trestle Inn! Hear from current Vox members and Vox alums about how to get involved in Vox as a member, Blackbox Fellow, guest artist, event organizer or intern. Vox Populi is a collaboratively-run, non-profit artist space: our rotating collective of members is the backbone to our ethos. Vox members are committed to actively engaging in an ongoing dialogue of experimental artistic practice through producing and curating exhibitions, performance events, artist lectures and discussions.

Web link: http://voxpopuligallery.org/calendar-event/vox-populi-411/
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2155871687807197/

Hahnemühle Student Photo Competition - please RESUBMIT

It happens to the best of us! Some submissions to the contest prior to March 19 have been lost. If you submitted to the competition, please take a few minutes to upload your materials again! Here's more information from Hahnemühle:
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We are sorry!   Due to a bug in our IT System, some submissions have not been saved. We kindly ask all participants who have submitted their images before March 19, to re-register and re-upload the image series on www.hahnemuehle.com/photocompetition.   We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

If you haven't registered, now's the time to get on board.   Welcome to Hahnemühle’s international student photo competition!   We are happy to announce our first photo competition which is specially designed for photography students. No matter what their individual style and focus is, all enrolled photography students have the chance to take part and submit a series of five images. The choice of theme is left entirely up to them.   About the competition   The competition consists of two rounds. In the first round, the jury selects 50 finalists from among all the online entries. In the second and final round, the 50 finalists will submit their photo series printed on Hahnemühle paper.   To make choosing the paper easier, every finalist will receive a set of Hahnemühle sample packs. This means that every participant in the final round has the opportunity to choose the paper that best suits their own photo series. We’ll then give each finalist a box of 25 A3+ sheets of their chosen paper.   Feel free to share the teaser video with your students and colleagues.

 

City of Philadelphia Call for Artists - Visual Democracy - April 1 Deadline

Visual Democracy
Exhibition Date: May 6 – June 22, 2019
Juror: Gaby Heit, Exhibitions Director for AIGA Philadelphia
Location: Art Gallery at City Hall, Room 116 and possibly 1st Floor display cases
Reception: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 in Conversation Hall, Room 201 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Application Deadline: April 1, 2019 4:00 p.m.

Full details link here: https://oacce.wufoo.com/forms/call-for-artists/

Theme:
May 31, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. On this significant occasion, Art in City Hall, an initiative of the City’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE) is issuing a call asking for visual artists to find relevance in Walt Whitman’s 1892 poem, “Song of Myself” and to utilize art to explore and reflect on contemporary social issues. Works can be inspired by passages in the poem or contain original text. There are no restrictions to media, however, video artists must supply all necessary equipment.

Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy, a region-wide initiative is organized by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries with major support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. For more information, visit: www.whitmanat200.org

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), a colossal figure in American literature and art, is often referred to as America’s first “poet of democracy.” The 200th anniversary of Whitman’s birth on May 31, 2019 provides an important opportunity to reassess his valuable contributions to American life at a time when our country is so polarized. The national crisis over slavery during Whitman’s time echoes our own conflict about the treatment of minorities and immigrants, while the growing economic gap between rich and poor also parallels that of today. As the initiator of “free verse”—poetry that follows the natural rhythms of speech without restrictions of meter and rhyme—Whitman wanted poetry to be accessible and nondiscriminatory, in keeping with his ideals of democracy. Whitman rejoiced in America’s melting pot, its mix of cultures, languages, and customs.

RULES FOR ENTRY

Application:
Application Deadline: April 1, 2019, 4:00 p.m.

There is no entry fee.

Artwork for the Art Gallery at City Hall cannot be any larger than 6ft in diameter, however the display case interior dimensions measure 72” height x 94” length x 30” depth. Art In City Hall will make determinations on where accepted works will be showcased.

Eligibility:
Open to professional, self-taught or graduate students from the five-county Philadelphia region and South Jersey.

Please submit up to four (4) jpeg or png files of artwork. The image(s) should be no larger than 5 MB each. The uploaded jpeg/png file name should correlate with the artwork title and must include your name. (ex: Anderson.B_#_Example Title). You can submit up to 4 pieces and include up to 3 details for 3D works. Each artist must include a brief artist statement (no longer than two paragraphs or 300 words) and (optional) an artist bio (no longer than 500 words). Copy and paste into form, formatting is not necessary. If you are unable to submit work in a digital format, please contact Tu Huynh, City Hall Exhibitions Manager at tu.huynh@phila.gov or (215-686-9912).

Selection and Installation of Exhibition:
All work must be in good condition and ready for installation (i.e., hooks, wires, etc.). Artists are responsible for assisting with installation of works that require special attention or extensive demands of time.

The OACCE, the Art In City Hall Exhibitions Committee and/or curators reserve the right to change the content of the exhibition, including the removal of artwork.

Delivery of Work:
The time of delivery and installation of artwork will be arranged with each participating artist after notification of acceptance. Artists or artists’ galleries are responsible for transport and delivery of works, including transfer insurance if needed, as well as the retrieval of work at the end of the exhibition. Please do not submit work that has already been sold or is out of the Philadelphia region.

Exhibition Location(s):
Exhibitions are generally presented in the public spaces of City Hall. Visual Democracy will be showcased in the Art Gallery at City Hall, which is also the home of the OACCE.

The hours of visitation for City Hall are from Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m – 4:00 p.m. City Hall is closed during weekends and holidays. Photo I.D. is not necessary on the first floor. Access to the upper levels of City Hall do require identification and require entry through the visitors entrance located on the Filbert and JFK Streets corner.

Sale of Work:
Art may be for sale. The Art Gallery at City Hall is not a commercial gallery and does not take commission. All sales are between the artist and interested patron(s).

Liability:
Each accepted artist will receive a loan agreement. Artwork will be insured by the City of Philadelphia once received by OACCE and determined to be in good condition for the duration of the exhibition and installation/de-installation periods.

For other questions, please contact Tu Huynh, City Hall Exhibitions Manager at tu.huynh@phila.gov or (215-686-9912).