Breaking Into Fine Art, Part 1 – Podcast
Atlanta Photography Group
Gallery Lecture
November 18, 2020 - January 30, 2021
75 Bennett Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, +
“Place as Memory” Group Landscape Exhibit
Carrie Haddad Gallery
Exhibition Tour
December 2, 2020 - January 31, 2021
622 Warren St Hudson, NY +
Breaking Into Fine Art, Part 2 – Podcast
Atlanta Photography Group
Gallery Talk
December 14, 2020 - February 28, 2021
75 Bennett Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, +
Workshop: Creative Catylist [Online]
Atlanta Photography Group
Seminar
January 6 - March 17
75 Bennett Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, +Workshop: Creative Catylist [Online]
Seminar
January 6 - March 17
75 Bennett Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia,
Creative Catalyst [ONLINE]
Jump Start Your Creativity
Bored with your photography and don’t know what to do? Want to begin a new series but haven’t found a direction or hit a plateau in your current series and don’t know where to go? Sign up for Creative Catalysts. Creative Catalysts is an ongoing group of photographic artists who are looking to be challenged and inspired. Led by artist and curator Beth Lilly, each month she presents an assignment designed to push artists into new creative and technical spaces, shake themselves out of ruts and find inspiration. The following month, the group meets to critique the previous month’s assignment and receive the next assignment. APG posts the best work from each assignment on their social media.
Artists sign up for 3 classes at a time and at the end of the three months, can choose to continue or take a break.
Register by January 6- intro class & receive your first assignment!
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January 20 – Review and discuss 1st assignment. Receive 2nd assignment
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February 17 – Review and discuss 2nd assignment. Receive 3rd assignment
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March 17 – Review and discuss 3rd and final assignment
Workshop Dates: Jan 6, Jan 20, Feb 17, March 17
This Workshop is ONLINE
Time: 7-9pm
Workshop Fee: $145 APG members / Non-members: $165
Instructor: Beth Lilly
Beth Lilly is an artist, curator, teacher and the former executive director for Atlanta Photography Group. An exhibiting artist for over 30 years, recent exhibitions include Spalding Nix Fine Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Zuckerman Museum, Whitespace Gallery, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and MOCA GA. Her work resides in the permanent collections of the High Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, MOCA GA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund and many private collections. She has taught photography for both Kennesaw State University, the Art Institute of Atlanta and the High Museum. Her critically acclaimed performance/interactive project “The Oracle @ WiFi” was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2012. Lilly earned a MFA in Photography from Georgia State University and an A.B.J. in Telecommunication Arts from the University of Georgia.
Register for Workshop: Creative Catalyst
Members: $145
Non-Member: $165
75 Bennett Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
gallery@atlantaphotographygroup.org
Open Thurs-Sat 12-4, by appointment
Tintype Demonstration with Rachel Portesi
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Artist Talk
January 21
10 Vernon St Brattleboro, VT +
Exposure Portfolio Reviews
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Festival
January 21 - January 24
5566 Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, USA +
Ellen Cantor | Mimi and her Purses
Griffin Museum of Photography
Artist Talk
January 21
67 Shore Rd Winchester, MA +Ellen Cantor | Mimi and her Purses
Artist Talk
January 21
67 Shore Rd Winchester, MA
On the walls of the Griffin Museum we are excited to have Ellen Cantor, and her series, Mimi and her Purses. Cantor will be in the Griffin Zoom Room for an online conversation about her creativity, influences and the background on how the series Mimi and her Purses was created. Join us on January 21st at 7pm EST for this evening presentation.
This event is FREE to Griffin Members $12 for Non-Members. Not a Member? For more information about our Memberships, log onto our website.
About Mimi’s Purses
“Things that are hard to bear are sweet to remember” Seneca, Roman philosopher
© Ellen Cantor, “Grandma Sue+ Souvenir de Paris”
Mourning is a very individual activity. Everyone has their own unique way of remembering the deceased. For many, it is through photographs or videos. Others find visiting a cemetery comforting. For Mimi, it is through purses.
Ironically, I met Mimi at funeral. She was carrying a purse of woven gold metal in the shape of a box–almost like a woven lunch box. I commented on its uniqueness and discovered the beginnings of this series “Mimi and Her Purses.”
Mimi and her husband, Phil, come from large families with lots of aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters and cousins. Along with many family celebrations, there are also somber moments when someone passes away. To help retain each person’s memory, Mimi chooses to use their purses for special occasions. This keeps their spirit alive and creates a living memorial for all who see Mimi wearing these handbags– reminders of the past when every outfit had it’s own matching purse.
I was invited to Mimi’s closet to see the numerous handbags and hear the wonderful stories about an Aunt or Grandmother or even a Great Grandmother who owned these remnants of times past. Inside purse is a holy card with a picture of a Saint, the person’s name, date of birth and death and whatever the previous owner left behind—handkerchief, lipstick and other inconsequential items such as band aids, packets of Splenda, price tags, toothpicks and even a sewing kit.
Each purse is a tribute to the past, creating a celebratory experience from an everyday object. By allowing the handbag and the items found inside to live a new life, Mimi captures the essence of memorable people in her life. -EC
About Ellen Cantor
Ellen Cantor is a Southern California artist who uses the camera to reimagine the family photo album and objects that hold personal histories in order to explore the distillation and persistence of memory.
She received a BS from The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and continued her education in Interior and Architectural Design at UCLA. She has studied photography at Santa Fe Workshops, Maine Media Workshop and The Los Angeles Center of Photography.
Her work has been featured in 21 solo exhibitions including dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, and The Spartanburg Museum of Art. She was a Critical Mass finalist in 2015 and 2016 and winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers as well as first place in the Fine Art category. She has participated in over 100 national and international group exhibitions including the Italian Cultural Exchange in Naples, Italy.
Ellen is listed under Modern Photographers on the website www.all-about-photo.com. Her photographs have been published in Harper’s Magazine, Muzée Magazine, SHUTR Magazine, Professional Photographer. Southwest Review and online in Lenscratch, f-stopmagazine, fraction magazine, rfotofolio, Voyage LA Magazine, My Daily Photograph, Lightleaked, a photo editor, Float Online Magazine, thisiscolossal and Silvershotz.
Workshop: FOCUS: a portfolio & project development course [ONLINE]
Atlanta Photography Group
Seminar
January 25 - June 28
75 Bennett Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, +
Joe Greene | Concealed Artist Talk
Griffin Museum of Photography
Artist Talk
January 28
67 Shore Rd Winchester, MA +Joe Greene | Concealed Artist Talk
Artist Talk
January 28
67 Shore Rd Winchester, MA
Join us for an online conversation with Joe Greene about his exhibition hanging on the walls of the Griffin, Concealed. Happening Thursday night January 28th at 7pm EST, Joe will discuss his creative path and how this series went from idea to vision.
About the series – Concealed
© Joe Greene, Glass Gun
Webster defines concealed as “to place out of sight, to conceal evidence, carrying a concealed weapon, to prevent disclosure or recognition or conceal the truth”.
At one time or another, everyone has something to conceal, emotionally or materially. When we place an object in our pockets and purses, we conceal it from public view. Just as easliy, we may decide to put a smile on our face even when we disagree with one another.
Joe’s photographs of vintage purses and toy guns act as a metaphor for the secrets we keep from each other and the fear in America right now.
About Joe Greene
Starting out as a painter, Joe was encouraged by his public school teachers to spend class time studying painting at an artist’s studio in Harvard Square, Cambridge. Since the studio specialized in copying classic contemporary works of arts, Joe had to learn how to paint just like the masters; including using a stick to drip paint Pollock style. He says, “Painting the same paintings over and over again helped me understand how light, color and textures work together.”
When he couldn’t get his ideas onto canvas fast enough, Joe picked up a camera. By the time he reached high school, he had a darkroom, two clients and was studying with artist and cinematographer, Ken Brown. Joe also learned the art of the psychedelic light show, by helping out at the Boston Tea Party concert hall. “I had a front row seat ( from the light show booth ) for Cream, Led Zepplin and the J Geils Band,”said Greene.
College was an exercise that broadened Joe’s horizons, it was at Mass College of Art where he became an honor student as a dual major in graphic design and photography, studying with the teaching team of Gus Kayafas and the late Paul Muller.
“I can spend years studying a subject, genre or lifestyle. My recent book, “Bike Week”, covers 5 years of shooting portraits at Laconia Bike Week. Other book titles include “Track”; the last few live race days at Suffolk Downs, Wolf; photographs of legendary rocker Peter Wolf and a new collection of found objects entitled “Shiny Things,” Greene said.
2021 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Museum of Photographic Arts
Screening
February 2 - February 8
1649 El Prado San Diego, CA +