Call for Entries: CURRENTS 2012, NOPA Members Showcase

CURRENTS 2012: NOPA Members Showcase

Juror: Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art

New Orleans Photo Alliance members are invited to submit work for consideration in CURRENTS 2012, which will be on display at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art during PhotoNOLA. The exhibition will showcase works by up to 15 Alliance members, and will include 5 or more works by each selected photographer. This exhibition is designed to show the diverse contemporary work being done by NOPA members.

Deadline: Friday, October 5, 2012

About the Juror: Richard McCabe was born in Mildenhall, England and grew up in the American South. McCabe received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1998. In the last 12 years has lived and worked in New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana. Currently, McCabe works as the Curator of Photography and Chief Preparator at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. and as an Associate Professor of Art at Xavier University.

Adrift by Laura Burlton - a selection from CURRENTS 2011

Exhibition Timeline

Deadline: October 5, 2012

Notification: October 15, 2012

Receipt of artwork: Nov 19, 2012

Exhibition Dates: November 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, November 30, 2012, 5-7 pm

Guidelines:

-Open theme.

-Submit 5-10 jpegs, from a cohesive body of work.

-Artist statement + brief project description are also required.

-You will have to create an account through EntryThingy in order to submit your entry.

-All art submitted must be original work, created by the applicant.

-New Orleans Photo Alliance reserves the right to use selected images in web and print for exhibition related publicity purposes; NOPA will properly credit the photographers.

-Accepted works should be presented professionally, wired and ready to hang.

Submission Requirements

• $25 application fee, to be directed through Paypal immediately after your application has been successfully uploaded.
• An artist statement or project description, to be pasted into appropriate box when prompted at beginning of entry process.
• A concise description of the work, limited to 260 characters, which will serve as an introduction to your work alongside the thumbnails.
• A portfolio of 5 to 10 images. Images can originate in any format but must be submitted digitally through an online application process.
• Each image submitted should be in jpeg format, 10 inches wide, sized at 72 pixels per inch (720 pixels). Name your files with your last name then first name and image title using an underscore to separate the names. Example: Doe_Jane_ImageTitle.jpg,
• Each image submitted will also require a title, dimensions and print medium. Each image file and its accompanying information will be entered and uploaded one at a time.

Questions? Send an e-mail to Photo Alliance programming. 

Submit via the NOPA website. 

Louisiana announces artist support grant program for 2012-13

The Arts Division of the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism's Office of Cultural Development has announced 2012-2013 fiscal year guidelines for artist career development grants of up to $3,000.

The deadline for grant applications, under the agency's Special Initiative Fast Track Career Advancement Grant program, is Friday, Sept. 21. The grants will be available for a variety of artistic fields, including fields in which NOPA members specialize or work within, such as design arts, media, and visual arts and crafts.

Information about the grants is available at the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism's website.

The grants program is designed to assist artists, at any stage in their careers, in projects or opportunities that further their professional development and creative growth. Applying artists must make a compelling case as to how a grant would substantially impact their careers.

The period of funding will be Nov. 15, 2012 through June 30, 2013.

Activities that can be funded may include, but are not limited to:

• Support that allows artists to create new art works that enhance the quality or breadth of their body of work
• Attendance at workshops, institutes, short-courses, retreats, residencies, or master classes that focus on an artistic aspect of the artist's career
• Participation in a performance, festival, reading, or exhibition
• Travel support for expenses related to professional development opportunities; for example, an exhibition or conference
• Fees for consultancies in an area of career development
• Preparation of portfolios and work samples
• Purchase of equipment under $2,500 per item
• Development or upgrading of promotional work, including websites and printed materials

All applicants must be legal residents of Louisiana, 18 years old by the application deadline, and not a grant recipient during Louisiana's most recent, 2011-2012 fiscal year. For more information, including entry requirements and limitations and detailed selection criteria, please see the program information sheet at the agency website.

Deadline for Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series entry is Friday

Update: Submissions for photography have been light for this contest, thus far, with a deadline of Friday, Aug. 24 just ahead. Entry is free of charge. 
 

New Orleans' L'entrepôt and Cathedral Creative Studios are seeking submissions from photographers in connection with the Crescent City segment of Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, a national visual arts competition.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 24. Entry is free of charge. Artists are only asked to remember that winning submissions will represent the the city in the final, national competition.

Contests are being held in major cities nationwide as part of the series, which is being sponsored by the Bombay Sapphire gin brand and the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, a project of hip-hop music and fashion mogul Russell Simmons and his brother, abstract expressionist painter Danny Simmons.





A select number of artists will be chosen to show their work at a host gallery from each participating city. The host in New Orleans is L'entrepôt and Cathedral Creative Studios, located at 527 Julia Street in the city's Warehouse District.

A preview show for local photography will be held at the gallery and studios on Saturday, Sept. 1.

Two other weekend, semi-finalist "pre shows" will be held, on Aug. 18 and Sept. 15, with the latter to feature the top picks of all artists who submit work for the New Orleans segment. Photography is eligible for showings on either date.

The final exhibit in the local Artisan Series is set for Saturday, Oct. 6, the day of the annual Art for Art's Sake gallery walks.  

One semi-finalist from each city will then be selected. The winners will be invited to compete at Art Bassel Miami, set for Dec. 6-9. Winners at that competition will, finally, have their own exhibit at the Rush Arts Gallery of New York.

For more information and to keep up with competition news, please see the Facebook pages of Cathedral and L'entrepôt.

Clarence John Laughlin Award Finalists

Congratulations to the ten finalists selected by juror Deborah Klochko for NOPA's 2012 Clarence John Laughlin Award.

Anne Berry

Aaron Blum

Lee Deigaard

Francisco Diaz

Meggan Gould

Priya Kambli

Deborah Luster

Wallace Merritt

S. Gayle Stevens

Maggie Taylor

Enrollment open for October 'Exploring the Delta' workshop

Magdalena Solé, a New York-based photographer whose documentary photo collection "New Delta Rising" was published earlier this year by the New York-based Dreyfus Health Foundation, will be leading a photographers' workshop in the Mississippi Delta region (south of Memphis, Tenn. and north of Vicksburg, Miss.) from October 17-24.

The workshop, "Exploring the Delta," will be based out of Seven Chimneys Farm in Stovall, Miss. located just outside of the small town of Clarksdale. Enrollment is currently open, but limited to 12 participants.

The full workshop fee is currently $1,500 if postmarked by Wednesday, Aug. 15, and $1800 if postmarked after that. Accommodations of $30 to $120 a night will be available at Seven Chimneys Farm.

The workshop, which is open to amateurs as well as professionals, is aimed at helping photographers understand, or begin to understand, their distinct way of seeing the world. Those enrolled will learn this through  group editing sessions, discussions, and presentations and exercises.

"Exploring the Delta" will begin with reviews of each participant's work, as a means for a larger discussion about particular photographic issues. 

Solé will then explore topics with the class, including

• the process of photographing spontaneously and intuitively
• taking photographs in cultures other than one's own
• editing of photographs so as to reveal a story
• the difference between images in a book and images on the wall
• how long-term projects can evolve into books and exhibitions

For more information, please see the "Exploring the Delta" workshop's brochure online. You may read more about "New Delta Rising," meanwhile, at the website of the University Press of Mississippi, the book's distributor.

Images: Photo from and cover of "New Delta Rising," by Magdalena Solé.

Stryker exhibit 'Velado' at Scott Edwards Gallery Saturday

"Velado," a new exhibit of work by New Orleans photographer Melissa Stryker will open this Saturday, August 11, at the Scott Edwards Photography Studio and Gallery. The gallery will host an artist's reception from 7 p.m. to midnight.

The exhibit will run through October 6.

The gallery is open every Sunday, Monday and Thursday from 12 to 8 p.m, and on Fridays and Saturdays from 12 a.m. to midnight. Appointments for visits are welcomed. The gallery is located at 2109 Decatur Street, near the border of the Marigny and French Quarter districts.

Alliance brings cyanotype-making to NOMA's 'Where Y'Art?"

NOPA volunteers will be at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) on Friday, August 10 with hundreds of sheets of pre-treated cyanotype paper and a potpourri of print-making accoutrements at the ready, for the museum's monthly after-hours series, "Where Y'Art?" 

The Alliance will host the a table at the event 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. Volunteers will assist adults and children in the making of cyanotype prints, a photographic technique that results in a cyan-blue print, and was once strongly associated with the classic architectural and engineering "blueprint."

The schedule for "Where Y'Art" is otherwise at follows

• 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Featured music by Sasha and Steve Masakowski
• 6 p.m. Gallery Talk with NOMA’s Assistant Director for Art, Lisa Rotondo-McCord: Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III.
• 7 p.m. "Art You Can Eat." With Haley Bittermann, Executive Chef for the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, along with a guest, Chef Leah Chase, for "The Soul of New Orleans: Modern twists on New Orleans classics and other family-friendly comfort foods." Reservations are requested. 

Sasha Masakowski  

The museum is located in New Orleans City Park, near the intersection of Esplanade and North Carrollton Avenues in Mid-City New Orleans. For more information about NOMA's "Where Y'Art" schedule for Friday, please see the museum's event information page. 

NOPA members' work accepted for 'Louisiana Contemporary'

Nine NOPA members are among those with works accepted for "Louisiana Contemporary," presented by Regions Bank, a juried, statewide art competition. The exhibit will open Saturday Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, in connection with the White Linen Night art festival.

The NOPA members with works in the exhibit are:

Angela Berry
Andrew Boyd
Philip Denman
Jill Ensley
Maja Georgiou
Mercedes Jelinek
Eleanor Kerr
Kevin Kline
Zack Smith

Nearly 200 artists submitted more than 600 works for the competition. Ultimately, 86 works were accepted, with some artists having more than one submitted work chosen.

An awards presentation for Louisiana Contemporary will take place at the Ogden Saturday evening, during a White Linen Night reception. Up to $1,500 in awards will be presented, including a $500 Best of Show award. The reception is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

The juror for the competition was Rene Paul Barilleaux, the Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945 for the McNay Art Museum of San Antonio, Texas.

The exhibition will be on view through September 24, 2012.

The museum is located at 925 Camp Street in New Orleans' Warehouse District.

'New Southern Photography' opens at Ogden Saturday

 
"New Southern Photography," an exhibit featuring the work of emerging as well as established photographers, several NOPA members among them, will open Saturday, Aug. 4, at the Odgen Museum of Southern Art in connection with the White Linen Night art festival.

Among the NOPA members with works in the exhibit are:

• Sesthasak Boonchai, NOPA President
• Lissette de Boisblanc
• Charles Franklin
• Kevin Kline
• Don Norris
• Kathleen Robbins
• S Gayle Stevens
• Colleen Mullins
• Frank Hamrick
• Warren Thompson

Others with work in the exhibit are Birney Imes (whose Mississippi series, including "Juke Joint," were shown at the Ogden last year), Tom Wik, Victor Balaban, D.H. Cooper, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Alex Leme, Donna Pinckley and Woody Woodroof.

An opening reception for this exhibit, as well as other Ogden exhibits opening Saturday, will be held at the museum from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday.

The museum is located at 925 Camp Street in New Orleans' Warehouse District.

Image: Lisette de Boisblanc, Jolie Laide, negative date: 2010, print date: 2012, 5/10, From the series, "Taken by the Fog"

Odd Works: 2 DEADLINE IS MONDAY!

Odd: 1. different from what is usual or expected; strange: the neighbors thought him very odd. 

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is once again seeking photographers working with unusual photographic based methods for it's last juried show of 2012, ODD Works: 2.

If your work is atypical in subject matter, process, presentation or just exudes peculiarity we want to exhibit it!

Submissions may be digital, traditional, or alternative process from any format; they may also be collage, montage mixed media, assemblage, 3-D, or any process or concept that uses the photographic image. (due to space constraints we cannot accept video work at this time)

Curated by: Russell Lord, director of photography for the New Orleans Museum of art.
Deadline for Submissions: August 6th
Notification of Acceptance: August 13th
Work due at NOPA Gallery: August 25th
Opening: September 1st

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Submission Guidelines

Open to photographers of all levels, who use any photographic process. All art submitted must be original work created by the applicant. Accepted work must be professionally presented and ready to hang.

Non-Refundable Entry Fee payable online via PayPal:


Members: $25


Non-members: $35


Individual Photo Alliance Membership + Submission: $60 (a savings of $10)


Eligibility: Open to photographers of all levels, who use any photographic process. All art submitted must be original work created by the applicant. Accepted work must be professionally presented and ready to hang.

To enter click here: Odd Works: 2