Meeting Minutes: Women in Focus, June 9, 2010
Taken By: Valerie Gruner
Meeting presided over by our president, Gittel Price.
Members and Guests Present: Toni James, Kate Lynch, Tiffany Weigel, Jill Ediger, Valerie Gruner, Anne Berry, Gittel Price, Linda Rathke, Kelly Thompson, Marty Maxwell, Debra Booth, Melissa Moore, Ruth Gogel, Sara Lindkrantz, Myrtie Cope, Hazel Berger, Vicki Bethel, and Dana Kemp.
New Member:
Melissa Moore joined WIF six months ago, but she attended her first meeting tonight. She likes to photograph nature, glass, and water. She saw our Digital Arts Artist’s Choice show last year, which inspired her to join our group.
Members in Shows:
Valerie Gruner and Joanne Green have work in the Atlanta Artists Center June show.
In May, Ruth Gogel took first place in the Atlanta Artist Center show, besting countless painters.
Hazel Berger will have a booth at the Sunflower Festival in Rutledge, GA on July 3 and 4. She also has work in the Heritage show.
Gittel Price has work in the Heritage Show, and one of her pieces took first place.
Announced the day after our meeting were photographers chosen for Atlanta Photography Group’s In Your Dreams show. WIF members in the show (July 9 - August 20) are Anne Berry, Lucinda Bunnen, Gail Des Jardin, Jill Ediger, and Jan Kapoor.
ACP Shows:
All the forms for all our shows are on the WIF website.
The juried show, at the Ferst Gallery, will be two months, September and October. Submissions are due at the July meeting, and results will be made known at the August meeting.
The show at Paint in the Pods in the Westin is also two months, October and November, and your pieces can be any size, and framed in any way.
The Digital Arts Artist’s Choice show will be the month of October, and your pieces need to be no larger than 16 x 20, in a black frame with a white mat, or gallery wrapped canvas.
All the details (specific dates, etc.) for these shows are on the website, and emailed updates will be coming as well.
New ACP Show:
The Jill Celeste Gallery contacted us with the idea of a WIF show in their gallery for ACP. Crossroads will be the theme. A broad interpretation can be made, but some ways to go would be actual roads that cross, a small road crossing a main road, a by-road, an intersection, a point at which a vital decision must be made, or a main center of activity. Gittel will email submission info for four pieces each submission.
Call For Entries:
Slow Exposures deadline is June 15.
Atlanta Artists Center National Show deadline is June 12.
For RPS Members: Analise- Friendship and Common Objects for the Chamber of Commerce.
Atlanta Photography Group’s Airport Show deadline is July 17.
The Save the (downtown) Library deadline is September 15.
Details for the shows may be found on the various organizations’ websites.
Shoot Out:
The photography club shoot out has been scheduled for October 23, in Rome, GA, at Berry College. WIF voted to participate in the all-day photo scavenger hunt event and competition. Make plans to come and help WIF make a fantastic showing!
July Meeting:
This is the due date for your juried show submission. Six prints, $20, filled out form, in a 9 x 12 envelope. Number your prints on the back, and a letter of the alphabet will be assigned to you at the meeting. Watch for an email about how to get your submission in if you cannot make it to the meeting.
Critique with Marilyn Seriani:
Marilyn has be photographing for 32 years, the first 25 as a documentary photographer. Her documentary subjects have been women in prison, storefront churches, and strippers (whom she photographed for 12 years). She has a sociology and psychology background, and enjoys working on long term projects. She feels this is a good reason to shoot. For the past six years, her photography has focused on nature, water, and abstracts.
In Marilyn’s critiques, she most admired unique visions and different perspectives. She paid particular attention to a photograph’s tone and detail. If a photographer was seeing an ordinary subject in a new way, she was pleased. She did not care about Photoshop, etc. work as long as the image was interesting.
A big thank-you to Toni James for providing computer help in displaying the images for critique.
Marilyn offered a few tidbits from the Serenbe Photography Center (traditional and digital printing), with which she is involved. She and Steve Nygren will be hosting a two-day workshop there coming soon. Also, a Serenbe photo scavenger hunt is being planned. In the fall, Marilyn will be giving a mixed media workshop, a one day event, and will also be leading a self-portrait workshop for women.