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CPAC’s 2009 Juried Members Show opens Friday, June 19^th at Denver’s  Edge Gallery, with a free public reception 6 - 10 pm that evening. Edge is located at 3658 Navajo St, 80218. Gallery hours are Friday 7 PM -10 PM, Saturday and Sunday 12 PM -5 PM. The show runs through July 12.

Veiled Nude, by Richard Cummings

Forty pieces from 27 different artists were chosen for the show by juror Loretta Young-Gautier, Associate Director of The Camera Obscura Gallery. The exhibit features a vast selection of photographic styles and subjects, including, traditional landscapes, still life images, animal subjects, travel, and abstractions as well as themes related to cultural and societal issues. Traditional silver prints and contemporary digital giclee as well as C prints are represented. A full list of participating artists and more images will be published here soon.

Four artists were awarded top honors for their work. Richard Cummings was presented Best of Show for his outstanding photo, “Veiled Nude” (above). Gifford Ewing, a respected national traditional photographer garnered Second Place for his image of the “Setting Moon at the Great Sand Dunes” (below). John Bonath received Third Place for “Thorny Pod” and Tom Haygood received Honorable Mention for his unique reflected abstraction of downtown Denver.

In the Edge Associate Gallery, Jessica Ellis and Felecia Ashby, two emerging photographers from Denver, are being featured as a companion exhibit (see previous post for details of their work).

Also featured at the show will be newly printed works by the late-20th century Pictorialist photographer R. Ewing Stiffler. These will be available for sale with a membership donation of $150. The pieces were chosen from CPAC’s 600-print collection and were featured in our Westword “Best of Denver” show at Gallery Roach - Roach Photos, Denver in 2006.

For additional information, contact Marti Foxhoven at 303 871 9633 or mjfox@csd.net.

We look forward to seeing you at Edge on June 19th!

Gifford Ewing: Setting Moon at the Great Sand Dunes

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Jurying for the 2009 member show will take place in a few days. We are waiting for any entries postmarked May 22 to arrive at our office, and shortly after we’ll post the list of artists chosen by our juror, Loretta Young-Gautier. Announcement cards will also be ready soon.

Meanwhile, we are pleased to announce the two artists whose works have been chosen to be shown in the Associate Gallery at Edge during the member show. They are Jessica Ellis and Felecia Ashby, both of Denver. Congratulations to Jessica and Felecia, and our thanks go out to everyone who helped in our search of the region’s most innovative emerging artists.

Tags: award, Felecia Ashby, Guest Artist, Jessica Ellis, Member Show

Lincoln Phillips

A reminder about our upcoming Member’s Show at Denver’s Edge Gallery, June 19th to July 12. Entry deadline is May 22.

Entries may be dropped off by hand on Saturday, May 23rd, 10 am - 2 pm ONLY, to the CPAC office at the Zang Mansion, 709 Clarkson St (at 7th), Denver, CO 80218. Come to the north side entrance.

If you are not currently a member, but would like to join in order to participate in the show, we are accepting new members at the time of drop off.  We look forward to seeing your work, and thank you for your support.

Three cash award prizes will be given and the show will be accompanied by a companion exhibit by a Colorado-based photographer to be announced soon.  Details are posted on the Entry Form and Prospectus.

The Member’s Show is organized in tandem with our 2009 Membership Drive. Remember, you must be a member of CPAC in order to enter the show.

Entry forms are posted below (download the pdfs).

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exhibition_prospectus

Tags: Call for Entries, Camera Obscura, Exhibitions, juried show, Loretta Young-Gautier

21st Century Photojournalism

Tuesday, May 19th, 6pm at RedLine Denver
Rupert Jenkins and Dana Romanoff in conversation

Photo by Dana Romanoff

May is turning out to be a busy month for CPAC Board Members. Board VP /Curator Rupert Jenkins and photojournalist Dana Romanoff will show work and discuss ways in which media technology and the decline of traditional outlets has affected today’s documentary photographer. Several burning-issue topics will be covered, including the use and construction of multi-media presentations, image editing, and the opportunities presented by today’s new media, as well as strategies for coping with diminishing traditional media outlets.

Romanoffs “No Man’s land: The Women of Mexico” is about the effect of immigration on women in rural Mexico. It was featured in the Photo Journal section of April’s National Geographic Magazine. Jenkins curated two exhibitions of photography -  “Hal Gould: A Retrospective” and “Places Like Us” - for RedLine in February 2009. He is a freelance writer and curator who currentlyworks as an editor and arts administrator at the University of Denver’s Victoria H. Myhren Gallery.

This event takes place at RedLine, Denver, 2350 Arapahoe St., near the ballpark We hope to see you there!

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Click here for more on “No Man’s land: The Women of Mexico”

Tags: "artist talk", Dana Romanoff, documentary, photojournalism, RedLine

Call for Entries

The Art of Photography Today
An Open Competition

Postmark Deadline: June 22, 2009

IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR RECENT 900 square-foot expansion, Camera Obscura Gallery is hosting a 2009 Call for Entries,“The Art of Photography Today: An Open Competition.”

Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers of at least 18 years of age, working with digital or traditional photography or a combination of both. The Camera Obscura Gallery invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, and experimental photograph-based mixed techniques are welcome.

The jurors will select approximately 50 - 75 photographs to be shown in a five-week exhibition at the prestigious Camera Obscura Gallery, one of the world’s oldest photography galleries. Exhibition dates are September 18 - October 24, 2009.

Jurors: Hal Gould and Loretta Young-Gautier

Contest Guidelines and entry form are attached, and can also be found at
www.CameraObscuraGallery.com.

Tags: Camera Obscura, competition, Loretta Young-Gautier

John Davenport: Size 8

Board member John Davenport is giving an artist lecture and gallery talk at the Foothills Art Center, May 2nd, at 11AM. This is in conjuntion with John’s piece in the Center’s 2009 Colorado Art Open, curated by DAM curator Christoph Heinrich and Center director Michael Chavez.

The Center is located at 809 15th St. in Golden

www.foothillsartcenter.org

Tags: Board, diptych, Exhibitions, Foothills, gelatin silver print, gsp

Katie Taft: True Love

Dates: May 1 – May 30, 2009
Place: Sliding Door Art Gallery, 766 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Co 80204
Hours: Fridays 12-5, Saturdays 12-5, First Friday 6-10, Third Friday 5-9

Artists Reception Saturday May 8th, 5–9 p.m.

Katy Taft: True Love plus Kay Tuttle: Cover Stories

About True Love, CPAC board member Katy Taft writes, “These works are love stories, both happy and sad. Making them has helped to exorcise my past and manifest the future that I want to exist. They are spells cast and objects of catharsis, they make magic happen and contain it. Some of these objects are made up of numerous almost identical pieces: the repeated action enforces a lesson learned, a tall building leapt a roadblock turning into a milestone. Artist reception: Saturday May 8th, 5–9 p.m. We’ll see you there!

Whitney Yeager,

CPAC Board member Whitney Yeager has been invited by Katy Tartakoff to be Guest Artist in Katy’s studio for the month of May.   Please join them for a reception on Friday, May 1^st, 6:00-9:00PM.   You’ll see this photos plus several more framed and matted images available for purchase.   Katy’s address is 3457 Ringsby Ct. #105 Denver, CO 80216.

Whitney Yeager Photography (720) 480-7851

whitney@whitneyyeager.com

www.whitneyyeager.com

Tags: Exhibitions, Katy Tartakoff, Taxi, Whitney Yeager

April 26th, 2009 is World Wide Pinhole Day!
CPAC Board member John Davenport will help teach Pinhole Photography at the Zang Mansion on 4.26.09 from 11AM-6PM in conjunction with Working with Artists & Colorado Photography Art Center.
To participate call Working with Artists at 303-837-1341

John is also showing at several places in the Denver area this April and May. For a list of events, follow the link below….

Tags: Exhibitions, photography

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Member’s Show at Denver’s Edge Gallery. Entry deadline is May 22. Exhibition dates are June 19th to July 12.

Three cash award prizes will be given and the show will be accompanied by a companion exhibit by a Colorado-based photographer to be announced.  Details are posted on the Entry Form and Prospectus.

In tandem with the Member’s Show is our 2009 Membership Drive. Remember, you must be a member of CPAC in order to enter the show.

Forms and benefits for the membership Drive and the member’s Show are posted below (download the pdfs).

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exhibition_prospectus

membership_letter

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Tags: competition, contest, Edge, Exhibitions, juried show, membership