SIFT THIS!
Newer isn’t always better. I have wooden spoons and cookie sheets in my kitchen whose original material compositions are virtually undetectable. Sometimes you stick with what you love, but sometimes folks come along regardless of age and instantly recognize the value of something that has worked for someone else forever…like my husband’s second hand flour sifter. Discover an oldie (but goodie) of your own with this show…
Check out this Call for Entries from the Smith Township Arts Council for the 31st Annual Juried Photography Exhibition. This year the theme is alternative processes or contemporary use of historical process, and it is juried by Joy Goldkind. Maybe it is time to break out the pinhole camera again…
Call for Entries: 31st Annual Juried Photography Exhibition
The subject matter for this exhibit is limited only by your imagination! Smith Township Arts Council and Juror Joy Goldkind are looking to show the contemporary use of historical processes. Show them the way in which you bring the past and future together.
Bromoil, albumen, collotype, kallitype, lazertran, anthotype, ziatype, carbon, argyrotype, cyanotype, daguerreotype, gum bichromate, salted paper, photo-gravure, solarplate, tintype, platinum and palladium, van dyke, hand applied emulsions, wet-plate collodion, silver gelatin and combinations of all of the above will be considered.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all photography. Entries may not have been shown previously at Mills Pond House Gallery. Maximum Frame Size 48″ width
ENTRY DEADLINE: November 10, 2010
ENTRY FEE: $45 for up to 3 entries, $30 for STAC members. Artists may join at time of entry.
LIABILITY / SALES: Work will be insured for the duration of the exhibition. STAC will receive a 30% gallery commission on all work sold.
NOTIFICATION: Emailed November 23
GALLERY REQUIREMENTS: Shipping, insurance and display requirements are posted at www.stacarts.org/exhibits
AWARDS:
1st Place: $300 Excellence in Photography Award Sataporn Suravichai Memorial, Winner’s Exhibition Opportunity, One-year STAC Artist Membership
2nd Place: $100 Award of Merit
ABOUT THE JUROR: Joy Goldkind was 50 years old before she took her first photography class, though her back-ground was always based in the fine arts. De-spite an unusually late start, Goldkind’s career as a fine arts photographer has progressed rather rapidly.
Her photographs of nude danc-ers, geishas, drag queens, ballerinas, circus per-formers, etc. have not gone unnoticed. Some-times inspired from a fantasy world, the use of double exposures and slow shutter speeds help Joy to change what is true and expected into a more surrealistic scene. The old world beauty and quality they possess is in no doubt influ-enced by a deep interest in art history.
With the use of the historic Bromoil process as a tool to express her fine art portraits, Joy adds a layer of mystery to her photographs. Very popular in the early 1900’s, the Bromoil process was favored by pictorial photographers who used it to add a more artistic rendering to their work. Each piece is individually inked by hand, therefore no two prints are identical.