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| Co- President | |
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| Co- President | |
| Communications/Membership | Deborah Nicholls |
| Financial Officer | Christine McKeen |
| Program Director/Membership | Christina Micek |
| Community Outreach/Public Relations | Sarah Evans |
ASPP New England
Greetings from Beantown!
Headquartered in Boston, ASPP New England has been an active chapter since the 1970's drawing on members from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. We are planning an active schedule of events for 2009 tapping the expertise of local photographers, universities and museums with a balance of educational and social activities for networking. Please check back frequently to review our calendar and suggestions for best bets.
Boston will be the proud host for the ASPP National Education Conference in 2010!
Upcoming Events:
For more information and to register, please click on this Link
Get the Big Picture: Presentation by Alan Taylor - On scheduled for Thursday, July 16th
Location: Pearson Education , 501 Boylston Street, Boston Time: 6:30-8:30pm Presentation to start at 7:00 pm
Alan Taylor, a web developer for the Boston Globe's website called boston.com, created The Big Picture after noticing that the impact of very powerful wire photographs was being lost because of their tiny display size. He wanted a way to display the photos in as large a size as possible to allow them to speak for themselves like Life Magazine (of old) and National Geographic. The Big Picture highlights high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting. Each entry is made up of anywhere from 6-18 photographs, tied together through some common narrative. The photos are collected from wire services and presented with captions at 990 pixels wide every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on http://www.boston.com/bigpicture.
This event is free for ASPP members and $3.00 for non-members and students. RSVP: dnicholls@comcast.net
August 20th (rain date August 21st) ASPP New England Barbeque & Movie Night
Location: Amy Wrynn's Home, 41 Cottage Street, Watertown MA 02472-1512
Movie title and times to be announced
We have decided to make this a Potluck and invite guests to bring their favorite appetizer, side dish or dessert to share.
Thursday, September 10th - Pink Slip Party and PhotoSlam
Deadline for Submissions: Friday September 1, 2009
Location: The Precinct, 70 Union Square, Somerville, MA 02143
It's time to showcase your photographic talent. The PhotoSLAM is a digital slide show of all submitted photographs, a showcase of the work and talent within the ASPP New England community. Note that you need not be an ASPP member to apply. Submit photos or short videos by CD or email by September 1, 2009 to sharon.donahue@gmail.com attention PhotoSLAM! We are only accepting submissions in digital format. Limit 6 images: Images must be jpegs (labeled last name and # i.e. Donahue1, etc.) formatted for PC (please include .jpg extension) at 150 dpi, no larger than 800 pixels in either direction. Limit to 3 videos no more than 5 minutes in length.
The images will be projected on a DVD while the ASPP NE community networks. It would be great to have you attend to narrate your work and/or support fellow photographers the night of the event.
Previous Events:
2009 Summer Party & Silent Auction - Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:30 - 8:30 pm
New Location: The Precinct, 70 Union Square, Somerville, MA 02143 http://www.precinctbar.com
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - Peering into the Micro World - Part II: Medical Imaging
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - Peering into the Micro World Part I: Brain Science Imagery
Time: 1:00 -2:30 pm Location: Molecular & Cellular Biology Lab in Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building at Harvard University, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge Dr. Jeff Lichtman's staff will show us how fluorescent dyes are added as markers to better envision the structures of cells like neurons. Photo of Professor Lichtman's presentation by Frank Siteman.
Thursday, February 26th - The Book As Art: Artists’ Books From The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: McMullen Museum of Art, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill
January 23, 2009 7:00 -8:30 pm
Presentation by Jim Dow. Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. Visual Critique Room B311, 230 The Fenway Boston http://www.smfa.edu
Meet Jim Dow a celebrated Boston photographer whose work has been likened to, inspired and expanded on the work of Walker Evans.
Jim Dow earned an MFA and a BFA in photography and a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been featured in more than 80 exhibitions at such venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Camera Works; and the International Center for Photography, New York. His work is found in many collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Library of Congress; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Dow teaches photography at Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
His most recent publication, Marking the Land: Jim Dow in North Dakota was co-published with the North Dakota Museum of Art. Voted one of the ten best photo books of 2007!
Admission: ASPP Members free; $3.00 students; $5.00 non-members
Best Bets
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications—over three stories of a historic mill building situated at the heart of MASS MoCA’s campus. The 27,000-square-foot structure, known as Building #7, has been fully restored for the exhibition by Bruner/Cott & Associates architects, which has closely integrated the building into the museum’s main circulation plan through a series of elevated walkways, a dramatic new vertical lightwell, and new stairways.
The works in the exhibition are on loan from numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Gallery, to which LeWitt designated the gift of a major representation of his wall drawings, as well as his wall-drawing archive.
Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, states, “Watching this grand installation of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings progress over the past six months has been nothing short of thrilling. In addition to providing an enduring exhibition of great beauty, this retrospective will enable visitors to behold for the first time the full trajectory of a major aspect of Sol’s artistic career. Until today, the only way to view multiple LeWitt wall drawings has been to travel far and wide, pursuing them individually in situ or in temporary museum exhibitions. Now, visitors will be able to return to MASS MoCA again and again to experience this visual feast of Sol’s wall drawings in a single location, doing so at their leisure over the next twenty-five years.”
Surfland: Photographs by Joni Sternback - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Through Oct. 4
Using 19th-century tintype photographic techniques, Sternback in her first solo museum show presents portraits of surfers.
Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture - RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Through July 19
Comprehensive survey of work by the great modernist architect and designer - the first to give equal weighting to all aspects of Breuer's work, from his famous chair designs to his houses and major public buildings.
Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
June 7 - September 7
An exhibit exploring the influence on Georgia O'Keeffe on America's first abstract painter, Arthur Dove.
The Perfect Fit - Shoes Tell Stories - Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
June 6 - January 3, 2010
This show in Brockton, which used to be the shoe capitol of the world, will explore the ways in which shoes can tell stories
relating to gender, history, sexuality, class and so on.
www.fullercraft.org
The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
June 13 - September 7
A look at Dtuch and Flemish seascape paintings between 1550 and 1700, a period that saw Holland rise to the status of a
n important sea power. The show comes from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England
www.pem.org
Prendergast in Italy July 18 - September 20 - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Through 70 works of art and an array of letters, prints and photographs and sketchbooks. This scholarly show will trace
the course of Maurice Prendergast's travels through Italy in 1898-99 and 1911.
www.wcma.org