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Women in Focus Monthly Meetings
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2012 Meeting Schedule |
 February 8, 2012 (2nd
Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Tony (Lumiere Gallery)
Tony will talk with us about the Vivian
Maire exhibit and share some of her images with us as well. This
meeting will be held at The Galleries of Peachtree Hills (see info
below). Please Note: This is for paid members only and we are
limited on space.
Location: The Galleries of Peachtree Hills (Directions)
Address: 425 Peachtree Hills Ave., Building 5 Suite 29B Atlanta, GA 30305
Phone Number:
404-261-6100
Venue Website: http://lumieregallery.net/
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 January 11, 2012 (2nd
Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Ross Oscar Knight
Ross Oscar Knight is an Atlanta-based freelance photographer. In 2006,
he left an engineering/business development career to capture unique
images that tell stories. He loves traveling as he finds that his
sense of creativity heightens in an unfamiliar environment. In 2010,
he opened his first gallery (KNIGHT Gallery) showcasing images from
his international travels to Africa, India, Central and South America.
This new venture signified his transition from pure wedding
photojournalist to life’s global documentarian. KNIGHT believes that
everyone on earth has a gift and intrinsic characteristics that make
him or her beautiful.
Ross is a member of the Professional Photographers of America (PPA)
and the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI).
His photography has appeared in various forms of media around the
world. Most notably, his images were featured on Oprah Winfrey’s
Book Club, Forbes.com,
Fox Business News, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. His
custom proposal slide shows have received interests from 20 th
Century Fox and Lifetime Television.
www.rossoscarknight.com
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Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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Past Meetings |
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December 12, 2011 (Monday): 7pm - ?
Program: Annual Women In Focus Holiday Party and Print Swap!
Bring an 8 X 10 print (in a manila envelope) to swap and enjoy dinner and cash bar at our annual holiday party. We want to see you there!!
Cost is $10. Use Pay Pal to send your payment or mail to Women In Focus, P.O. Box 673663, Marietta, GA 30006 to make your reservation.
Location:
Villa Christina, at Perimeter Summit
Address: 4000 Summit Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30319
Phone Numbers:
404-303-0133 phone
Venue Website: www.villachristina.com
DIRECTIONS
From GA 400:
Take I-285 East to Ashford Dunwoody Road (Exit 29). Stay in the far right hand lane, which will put you onto Lake Hearn Drive. At first traffic light turn LEFT onto Parkside Place. Travel one block and turn RIGHT onto Perimeter Summit Drive (into the Perimeter Summit Complex.) At the stop sign, turn LEFT onto Summit Boulevard. Villa Christina is the last building on the LEFT.
From I-85 & I 285 (Spaghetti Junction):
Take I-285 West to Ashford -Dunwoody Road (Exit 29) and turn LEFT. Crossover I-285. At the first traffic light and turn RIGHT onto Lake Hearn Drive. At next traffic light turn LEFT onto Parkside Place. Travel one block and turn RIGHT onto Perimeter Summit Drive (into the Perimeter Summit Complex.) At the stop sign, turn LEFT onto Summit Boulevard. Villa Christina is the last building on the LEFT.
Complimentary Valet Parking
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 November 9, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Laura
Noel (speaking from 7 pm - 8 pm). Business meeting will
begin at 8 p.m. Tonight is the night to sign-up for our Holiday Party!
Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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 October 12, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Nancy McCrary,
Publisher of
New Online Southern Photography Magazine
and co-director/Mktg of Slow
Exposures.
South by Southeast is a new online monthly and quarterly print
magazine dedicated to photography in and of the Southeast, has
arrived. With great press coverage from photography publications,
blogs, and word of mouth, we have experienced an overwhelmingly
enthusiastic response to our magazine.
Location: Atlanta Girls' School
(their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245
(Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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September 14, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Michael West
Photographic artist, educator, free-lance curator and workshop leader Michael West will present selections of his work. Michael will discuss what inspires his work and take a closer look at some of the creative processes used.
Speaker Website: www.michaelwest.com
Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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August 10, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Gary Poole
 Turn in images for juried exhibit. As soon as they are juried, we will email all the results. September 16th is the reception date at Mason
Murer.
Gary Poole has been in professional photography since 1977 when, at the age of 21, he opened a portrait studio and color lab in south Georgia. Since 1988, he has worked for nationally known professional color labs in the areas of production, supervision and color management. His passion for helping other photographers with image control and color accuracy led to his creating a web-based color correction service called yourbestcolor.com in 2010. He corrects for professional photographers in several U.S. states as well as Canada and two overseas countries. He is also regular author for shootsmarter.com.
Gary will present a program of common mistakes made in digital photography and how to correct them. He will give a brief demonstration of how he uses Lightroom to correct and enhance digital images.
Speaker Website: www.yourbestcolor.com
Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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July 13, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Critique Night
Guest Judge: Dean Stevenson
As we all know, our juried exhibit is coming up very fast. We ask all members to bring 6 to 10 images, on flash drives or prints. Dean will then pick our top three, just to help us in our decision for our juried exhibit.
Speaker Website: www.deanstevensonphoto.com
Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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June 8, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Brett Abbott, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art
Speaker Bio: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=43050&int_sec=2
Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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May 11, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Critique Night
Guest Judge: Beth Lilly
This will be our critique during which we will benefit from a professional's insights. Members may bring up to six images: prints (at least 8"x10") or on CDs. Beth Lilly will be our guest judge.
Atlanta artist Beth Lilly uses photography in a variety of projects. Opening April 8, 2011, work from her landscape series will be included in their major exhibition, "Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers". Fine art book publishers Kehrer Verlag will publish a compilation of work from her cell phone project, "The Oracle @ WiFi" in 2012.
The Oracle @ WiFi is a performance art project and collaboration between the artist, Beth Lilly, and members of the public. She created a system of divination using her cell phone camera and offered her services as an oracle. The idea was that people from anywhere in the world could call her and she could make photographs for them on the spot and email back to them.
In my system, the photographs she took would contain the answer to their question. Instead of working with historically determined meanings assigned to static images like in the Tarot or the I Ching, they were free to look at the objects and actions of our contemporary society and discover the symbology have come to possess. More information on this project can be found at http://bethlilly.com/index2.php#/home/.
Recent exhibits include the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, Massachusetts, The Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, MOCA GA, Atlanta, Georgia, Climate Theater in San Francisco, and she was awarded ACP's public annual public art grant in 2009 to produce "Gifted".
Her work has been reviewed and published in "Art Papers" magazine, French newspaper "La Liberation" blog "Zoum Zoum", Lens Culture, The Boston Phoenix, The Photo Review, Papermagazine.com, and the San Jose "Art Shift". Permanent collections include MOCA GA, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, the Eleanor D Wilson Museum, the Southern Company, and the University System of Georgia.
Speaker Website: www.bethlilly.com
Speaker Blog: oracleatwifi.blogspot.com
Speaker Project: The Oracle @ WiFi
Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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April 13, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Angela West
Angela West was born in Dahlonega, Georgia. She received her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from Yale University. Her recent projects include portrait studies of small-town teenage girls, landscapes of familiar neighborhoods and luminous still lifes. In each genre her richly realized color photographs balance affection for her subjects with precise and unsentimental observation. Ms. West's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Ogden Museum, New Orleans and The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.
Ms. West lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Location: Atlanta Girls' School (their Directions page)
Address: 3254 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327-2245 (Google Maps)
Phone Numbers:
(404) 845-0900 phone
(404) 869-9718 fax
Venue Website: www.AtlantaGirlsSchool.org
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March 9, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm – Off-Campus Reception
We will have a short meeting and then walk around and enjoy our exhibit. Be sure and bring your cameras. The views are incredible!
Special Exhibit: Also exhibiting with us will be images from our sister group in Tbilisi, Geφяgia. In 2006 and 2008, we exhibited together and titled our exhibit Georgia to Geφяgia, and this was a landmark exchange program of photographic work between female artists in Atlanta, Georgia and Tbilisi, Republic of Geφяgia. By combining our work with photographs from the Republic of Geφяgia's Contemporary Art Club, the Atlanta members of the group, Women in Focus, presented an experimental exhibition that illustrated the similarities and differences of two worlds that share the same name. Check out Georgian Art Portal | Contemporary Art Club (CAC) in Tbilisi, Geφяgia!
Reception at the Westin. (Refreshments are being supplied by the Westin.)
Our first exhibit this year will be in celebration of International Women's Month, March.
Exhibit Dates: March 3 - May 31, 2011
Image Subject: That is up to you, frame, mat, colors and style is your choice.
Load in: Sunday February 27th from 2-3pm., Westin Hotel, 210 Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303 ♦ (404) 589-7506
Pick up: June 1-4, 2011, Westin Hotel, Sundial Restaurant @ Paint In The Pods
Location: Paint In The Pods, Westin Hotel
Venue Website: www.SunDialRestaurant.com
Paint In The Pods WEDNESDAY, March 9 and Enjoy A Special Lunch Offer - Details Below!
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Please Join Us for
"Paint In the Pods™"
WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2011
7 to 10pm
We are pleased to present a very special Paint In The Pods in celebration of International Women`s Month, March. Two women`s photography groups, Women In Focus from the Atlanta area, and the Contemporary Art Club of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, are exhibiting images to Celebrate International Women`s Month.
Enjoy complimentary hors d`oeuvres and drink specials!
Amira Price
Exhibition: Wed, March 9 - June 2011
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The sister groups have exhibited in 2006 and 2008.
The past exhibition titled,
Georgia to Georgia
was a landmark
exchange program of photographic work between female artists in
Atlanta, Georgia and Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. By combining
the work with photographs from both the Republic of Georgia's CAC
and WIF, the group presented an experimental exhibition that
illustrated the similarities and differences of two worlds that
share the same name.
This show will feature 35 pieces, 11 of which are from
the Contemporary Art Club of Tbilisi, Georgia.
For more information on both organizations:
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Atlanta-based Women In Focus, is a non-profit group created to support and promote
the photographic arts. This network of women photographers come together to
assist each other's professional and artistic growth.
Valerie Gruner, "Caught"
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Jill Ediger,
"Passages"
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Founded in 1993 by a small group of women who recognized the need for a network for women
photographers, WIF has blossomed into a thriving organization of more than fifty active members.
Featuring work by:
Anne Berry, Vickie Bethel, Danielle Clockel, Myrtie Cope, Bobi Dimond, Jill Ediger, Samantha Spears Evans, Adrine Garmon, Sheri Gaza,Valerie Gruner, Susan Helber, Lynn Klein, Keri McDaniel, Gittel Price, Amira Price, Donna Rosser, Denise Savage, Tiffany Weigel
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ENJOY 15% OFF LUNCH until April 31 - Click on Voucher to download
Mix, mingle and meet new friends. Guests attending
"Paint in the Pods™"
can register to win a
Dinner for Two.
Paint in the Pods
is free and open to the public.
RSVPs are strongly suggested due to capacity. Guests will enjoy delicious complimentary contemporary American hors d'oeuvres from our Executive Chef Christian Messier. Special featured cocktails are available for purchase.
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The Sun Dial Hours of Operation:
Restaurant:
Lunch: Daily from 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Dinner: Sunday - Thursday from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday 6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Saturday from 5:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Brunch: Sunday from 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Bar:
Monday - Friday from 4:00 p.m. until closing
Saturday from 2:00 p.m. until closing
Sunday from 2:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
The View:
* Open daily from 10 a.m. until closing.
For reservations call 404-589-7506 or visit
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February 9, 2011 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Guest Speaker: Mark Alberhasky
Topic: Road Trip
 
Author, inventor, physician, and photographer with over 35 years behind a camera, Mark's perspective on the world is unique. In 2004, he became a contributing photographer for Nikon, was featured in Nikon World Magazine, and regularly shoots for Nikon advertising. His work has received awards internationally and appears in placements as diverse as commercial ads, medical journals, sports magazines, and corporate installations.
Strong graphic design, bold use of color, and a passion for special light are the signature elements catching the eye of clients such as Nikon, Lowepro,  Hewlett-Packard, magazine editors, galleries and collectors. His work is as diverse as it is unique, ranging from travel to action sports, iconic advertising images to custom theme photoillustration. A Nikon mentor for the Mentor Series World Wide Treks and a Blue Pixel associate, his presentations and photo instruction inspire audiences worldwide. Author, Tony Luna, was so struck by his passion and success, that Mark is subject matter in Luna's book on reinventing yourself in the arts.
No matter where you are with your work as a photographer, we all share the quest for taking our work to the 'next level'. Nikon Pro photographer Mark Alberhasky will speak to this challenge with a potpourri of anecdotes from his own photo journey, sharing insights that are instructive, entertaining, and inspirational.
Speaker Email: mark@imagema.com
Speaker Bio: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Speaker Website: www.ImageMA.com (Look and see here.)
Speaker Blog: www.ImageMA.us (Leave a message here.)
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January 19, 2011 (3rd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
(Rescheduled due to snow/ice!)
Guest Speaker: Craig Tanner
Topic: Road Trip
 Instead of flying to his fall series of National Park Workshops, Craig Tanner decided to drive this year, traveling 10,000 miles and shooting thousands of pictures along the way. The work Craig created ran the gamut from impromptu portraits of people to abstracts created while driving to light painted images shot at night to the big sweeping landscapes that were the hallmark of Craig's early career. In this presentation called Road Trip, Craig shares a handful of his favorite images from the trip and gives you a "from start to finish" look at the images — the back story of the images, why and how he shot them, how the images were processed in the darkroom, and why he chose them for the presentation. Craig, also, shares how the trip crystallized his thoughts about the future direction of his own photography and gives you some very practical tips for finding the passion, purpose and heart of your work as a photographer.
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January 13, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Member Speaker: Corinne Adams  her WIF portfolio page
Speaker's Facebook page:  www.Facebook.com/people/Corinne-Adams/1024795672
Corinne Adams is an Atlanta-based artist who works in fine art photography and mixed media. She creates personal work that evokes a world of dreams, symbols and mystery. Corinne has studied at the Atlanta College of Art and taught photography workshops in the Atlanta area. She counts Joseph Campbell, Joseph Cornell, Harry Callahan and Mike & Doug Starn among her influences.
Corinne has had solo exhibitions at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, Toulouse Gallery and Wing & A Prayer Studio and has been published in regional media. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is installed in the International Concourse of Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, Los Angeles (LAX) International Airport and such collections as King & Spalding, Kirkley & Payne, Western International Media, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance and Ritz-Carlton, Mandarin, Omni and Westin hotels across the U.S.
Corinne is co-founder of ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY, the city's annual photography festival held during the entire month of October. She is represented by SOHO-Myriad, Inc. and Trinity Gallery Corporate Division, both in Atlanta.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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February 10, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: John Williams
Topic: Portrait Lighting
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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March 10, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Critique night
Guest Judge: Kathryn Kolb
Judge's Website: www.kathrynkolb.com
This will be our critique during which we will benefit from a professional's insights. Members may bring up to four images: prints (at least 8"x10") or on CDs. Kathryn Kolb will be our guest critique judge.
Kathryn Kolb is a free-lance photographer working in the Atlanta area since 1985. Born in Indiana, she grew up in the rural surroundings of Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1983 she received a BA in History from Emory University in Atlanta, concentrating on ancient Europe and the Near East. In 1984-5 she took photography classes at the Southeastern Center for the Arts, in Atlanta. Although Kolb has had no formal training as an artist, visual artists are found in both her parents' families, and her paternal grandfather, Harold H. Kolb, was a noted watercolor painter working in Boston and the New England area.
Kolb's editorial work is characterized by an artistic style with strong graphic elements. Her photographs have been widely published and have appeared in Smithsonian, Veranda, Rolling Stone, Nature Conservancy, Orion magazine and others. Special photographic projects Kolb accomplished include: a series of environmental portraits of regional artists for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution; portraits of formerly homeless men and women who regained successful lives through Atlanta's Samaritan House, and self-published calendars of Atlanta and Athens musicians, including artists REM and Indigo Girls. In 1996, Kolb photographed a medical mission to rural communities in the Dominican Republic. In 1999, through Soho-Myriad Gallery (Atlanta), Kolb was commissioned to create non-traditional landmark portraits of the University of Virginia campus for a permanent installation at the University's Boar's Head Inn in Charlottesville. Images from Kolb's Tree Series were recently installed in the public spaces of the Children's Clinic at Emory University, and Kolb was one of five photographers selected to display work on Atlanta's MARTA buses for the public art project "Art in Motion," sponsored by the City of Atlanta in 2008.
Since the mid-90s, Kolb has shifted toward fine art images of natural forms and landscapes. Kolb's fine art series include black & white and color photographs of landscapes, trees and other plants from diverse natural environments. Her most recent work, mostly in color, explores abstract constructions that often seem more akin to painting than photography. As photographer, Kolb stays true to the simplest form of her medium - all works are straightforward, un-manipulated images, and she uses no digital cameras or printing techniques. Kolb takes all photographs with a Hasselblad medium format camera and prints with traditional enlargers. Her fine art photographs can be found in numerous private and institutional collections including those of the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, King & Spalding (Atlanta), Georgia Conservancy, Emory's Goizueta Business School, Georgia Tech, and the City of Atlanta.
In additional to fine art images of natural subjects, Kolb continues to do environmentally- oriented assignment work. In 1999-2001, Kolb produced calendars for Georgia Forestwatch, featuring unprotected areas in Georgia's national forests. Her work was included in the Sierra Club's Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, and she illustrated an article on kudzu for the October 2000 issue of Smithsonian.
 Two of her Tree Series photographs were featured in the Oct/Nov 2001 Veranda magazine. The Wilderness Society commissioned Kolb to photograph roadless and wilderness areas of the southeastern Appalachians for the publication, Why Wilderness? What the Remaining Wildlands of the Southern Appalachians Mean to the People of the Southeast, published in 2004. These photographs along with others from the southeastern region were exhibited in a solo show of Kolb's work at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History (Atlanta) during the summer of 2005.
Kolb's interest in the environment goes beyond her visual aesthetic. Growing up in rural Virginia and with maternal family roots in the western North Carolina mountains, she developed a strong appreciation of the value of natural landscapes. Since the early nineties Kolb has worked to preserve and restore native forest environments and care for urban trees and greenspace. She helped to produce new tree ordinances for DeKalb County and the City of Atlanta, served on the board of Georgia Forestwatch, and helped the City of Atlanta acquire a greenspace in her neighborhood. She is also the principal founder of Keeping It Wild, a program of The Wilderness Society, dedicated to bringing diverse partners together with the conservation community in order to connect urban residents to natural lands and promote the protection and restoration of natural and wildlands in Atlanta, Georgia and the Southeast. In August 2005 Kolb and her work were featured as cover story in the Arts Section of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. In 2007 she was featured on TBS' award-winning television series Storyline.
Kolb's fine art photographs are currently available through Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta; Amanda Schedler Fine Art, Birmingham, AL; Artstudio 101, Scottsdale, AZ.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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April 14, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: John Mariana
Topic: Fine Art Techniques in Digital Photography
 "This program presents Fine Art Techniques in Photoshop (PS) and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) that I use to achieve images in my style and color palette. My first approach to enhancing an image is the color. I will show the benefits of the tools in PS and ACR. The most striking use of these tools is used in changing a spring image into an autumn image.
"The presentation will provide samples of my original image and the techniques used to create fine art. Topics will include ACR color enhancements, adjustment brush and corner and edge burns. Photoshop techniques include dodge and burn, transformations with distortions and warp, levels and multiple exposures." — John Mariana
John Mariana - www.MarianaPhotography.comF i n e A r t P r i n t s a n d B o o k s"Photograph that which stirs your heart and excites your mind."
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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May 12, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 6:30pm -
Please join us at our off campus WIF meeting, May 12th, at MOCA GA. The address is below. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, MOCA GA, presents Lucinda Bunnen: "From Hatcher's Pond." "From Hatcher's Pond" will feature 12 new works by Lucinda Bunnen in Gallery I.
Exhibitions dates: April 24th - July 3rd, 2010
Reception & Artist talk: Wednesday, May 12th
Time: 6:30 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Artist talk
Location: The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,
75 Bennett Street, Suite A-2, Atlanta, GA 30309.
Phone: (404) 367-8700
Venue Website: www.MOCAGA.org
Email: info@mocaga.org
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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June 9, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Critique night
Judge: Marilyn Suriani
Judge's Website: www.SurianiPhoto.com
This will be our critique during which we will benefit from a professional's insights. Members may bring 6 minimum prints, on CD or thumb drive. Marilyn Suriani will be our guest critique judge.
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July 14, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Deadline for 8 x 10's for WIF XVII is this meeting, July 14th.
(Anyone who cannot be at this meeting may send them to Gittel,
but must be received by Monday, July 12th.
Mail to: 310 Birch Hollow Ct, Roswell, Ga. 30075)
John Williams, former Hahnemuhle representative and current Showcase Photo & Video General Manager, will conduct a "Gallerie Wrap" demonstration. The "Gallerie Wrap" demonstration includes a discussion of media used for wraps, choices from Hahnemuhle — the industries oldest supplier at 425 years in business, the gallerie wrap process and products that are available. We'll demonstrate the process of doing a wrap and then make several examples. We'll have a drawing for a FREE gallerie wrap and a FREE gallerie wrap kit compliments of Showcase Photo & Video.
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August 11, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Anna Walker Skillman
Topic: Artist Survival in the New World of Collecting
- What collectors are looking for and what they are avoiding
- influence of digital photography vs. traditional photography
- Take advantage of this economy and show work in a new way
Anna Walker Skillman is the owner of Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In 1990, Jackson Fine Art opened a gallery in Atlanta specializing in 20th century and contemporary photography. Jackson Fine Art quickly became an important voice in the South as well as the international market. Jackson Fine Art continues to have a strong focus on contemporary work while maintaining a blend of 20th century and vintage works. Jackson Fine Art participates and has participated in various international art fairs including, The AIPAD Photography Show in New York and Miami; Paris Photo; Art Chicago: The Navy Pier Show; and Photo Los Angeles.
Anna Walker Skillman has been a loyal and active participant in the arts community for the past 19 years. After graduating with a degree in Art History from the University of Georgia in 1991, she began her career working at the Haines Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery in San Francisco. In 1993, Anna moved to Atlanta to manage the studio of famed Atlanta artist, Todd Murphy. After working with Mr. Murphy to help establish his career, Anna turned to photography and joined Jackson Fine Art in 1998. After six years of being the Director of Jackson Fine Art, in March of 2003, Anna purchased Jackson Fine Art from Jane Jackson who became curator of the prestigious and renowned collection of Sir Elton John.
Ms. Skillman is interested in reviewing contemporary works as well as traditional silver gelatin prints that are primarily figurative and/or narrative. She is less interested in landscapes and abstraction. Her reviews are a great source for critique as she can offer artists an insight into the way contemporary galleries select artists for representation and exhibition. She will bring a fresh eye in viewing your portfolio and give guidelines for presentation as well as straightforward edit of your portfolio. Ms. Skillman is passionate about photography and has a great deal of respect for photographers. She understands the challenges of breaking into the art market and hopes to give an honest perspective to help photographers make that process an easier one.
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September 8, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Join us for a night of ideas and creativity as three women step up and talk about art, twitter and art. Both Valerie Gruner and Dorothy O'Connor will teach us how they each make their art and Hazel Berger will speak about twitter.
Valerie Gruner has been a member of WIF since 2007 and is currently on the board. She is also a member of the Atlanta Artists Center and Atlanta Photography Group. Back in 2005, when she was beginning to get her fanciful photographic ideas, she couldn't afford Photoshop, so she bought The Print Shop. When she could afford Photoshop, she was too spoiled by the dreamily simple Print Shop to make the switch. She'll be giving a demonstration of The Print Shop, answering "How'd you do that?" See her dreamy photography on our website.
Also, this evening, Photographer Dorothy O'Connor will provide insight into her artwork creation. Dorothy O'Connor graduated from Georgia State University with degrees in Literature and Studio Arts. She continued her education at The Creative Circus, a commercial art school in Atlanta. Her photographs feature thoughtfully composed scenes, combining elements of still-life and portraiture to produce unique and evocative works of art. Dorothy O'Connor's work can be found on her website, www.DorothyOConnor.com.
WIF Board member Hazel Berger has been tweeting for a year and has over 1800 followers on twitter. What is she tweeting and Why? And, should I? Learn the basics of twitter during her discussion. Hazel is also a member of the Roswell Photographic Society and the Photographic Society of America. She sells her flower photography at art festivals and on Etsy.
In lieu of an October meeting, please join us October 13 at 6:30 PM at the Ferst Center for the reception of our XVII Juried Show. This will be a fun night to mingle, network and meet the artists. For directions check out the web page on our site.
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October 13, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 6:30pm - 9pm
Join us at The Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech for the reception of WIF XVII, our annual Juried Show. This will be a fun night to mingle, network and meet the artists. For directions check out the web page on our site.
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November 10, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Susan Todd-Raque.
Topic: Ansel Adams exhibit, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA.
(This link's page has a video on it!)
Aside from being a private dealer and curator, Susan Todd-Raque is a scholar on photography and will give a talk about the Ansel Adams exhibit which is on view now through Feb. 20, 2011 at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville. Her talk will provide some interesting bits of information on Adams' work as well as give WIF an understanding of how dedicated and disciplined Adams was to his art.
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Women In Focus' Annual Holiday Party & Print Swap
December 8, 2010 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 10pm
Venue: Botanical Gardens.
Bring a print to swap in an opaque 9 x 12 envelope, so that we may all add to our collections of outstanding photography.
Note: You MUST sign up to attend by RSVPing Gittel, gittelp@bellsouth.net.
Guidelines for the print swap: The print you bring to swap must be a show quality print. The paper, color, focus, contrast, and condition of the print should be one that you would submit for judging. Please sign the print in pencil or archival ink. Avoid dings in the paper, dust on the print, and other detractors. Our goal is to swap fine art prints so we can collect fine art at cost. With all the talent we have in WIF, we are fortunate to have this opportunity! If you are not able to attend, you may have a member bring your print to swap. Remember to put it in an opaque 9 x 12 envelope with NO NAME on the envelope.
Here are some pictures of us enjoying our 2008 End-Of-The-Year Holiday Party -n- Print Swap! And, here is a picture of us enjoying our 2009 End-Of-The-Year Holiday Party -n- Print Swap! |
2009 |
January 14, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
 Guest Speaker: David Akoubian
Speaker Website: www.BearWoodsPhotography.com
Location: Emory Conference Center
Address: 1615 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-4017
Phone Numbers:
(404) 712-6000 local
(877) 339-8727 toll free
Venue Website: www.emoryconferencecenter.com
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
February 11, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
 Guest Speaker: Nancy Floyd
Speaker's Website: www.NancyFloyd.com
Speaker's Bio: Nancy Floyd is an artist whose exhibition record includes shows in the United States, Japan and Europe, with 18 solo exhibitions and over 80 group exhibitions. Her work has been published in many periodicals including Light Work's Contact Sheet, as well as in the books Game Face, Pregnant Pictures, Gun Women, Real Knockouts, Bombensicher: Atomic Photographers Guild, and A Different War: Vietnam in Art. Floyd's first book, She's Got a Gun, is a visual history of women and guns in America, 1850 to the present.
Floyd has an MA from Columbia College in Chicago and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She was raised in League City, Texas and now makes her home in Atlanta, Georgia. Her day job is as Associate Professor of Photography in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
March 11, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Guest Speaker: Marilyn Suriani
Speaker's Website: www.SurianiPhoto.com
Speaker's Bio: Marilyn Suriani is a fine art and documentary photographer based in Atlanta. Her portraits of high-profile subjects have included renowned business, political and cultural leaders. Suriani's documentary projects and artworks have been displayed in galleries and museums worldwide and can be found in a variety of corporate collections and hospitality venues throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Her current art nature study, Natural Selections, includes the stunning water series. The AtlantaJournal-Constitution, in a recent review of this work, states, "Suriani allows her lens to linger on the interplay of light and movement in bodies of water, [her] works create mood from movement and light, offering her vision of nature as a vehicle for reflection."
A self-portrait study is the direction of Suriani's new and on-going art series, InteriorDesign. In this study, she uses her own medical data, including x-rays and old photos to come to terms with aging and mortality. A departure from former work, these collage images represent a turning point in her career as she explores more conceptual elements. The work was selected for a juried show of southeastern photographers at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta in 2005.
Work gathered from 1979 to 1992 for the book Dancing Naked in the Material World. Suriani's photo documentary of Atlanta-area exotic dancers, was published in 1992 to unanimous praise, the Philadelphia Inquirer calling it "fine urban anthropology." Suriani and some of the women in the book were guests on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show. Marilyn also appeared on Noonday Atlanta and was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) for Performance Today.
Other documentary projects include a two-year study of women in prison. After covering a story for the L.A. Times on sexual abuse by prison guards, Suriani went back to learn more about the women and life inside. In her moving Storefront Church series, Suriani discovered that somewhat private and passionate world of small congregations in Atlanta. Since moving to Atlanta in the 70's, Suriani has been recapturing her roots in "South Phily, Italy on the Delaware," with a fresh perspective.
Interesting Fact: There will be a full moon tonight.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
April 8, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Guest Speaker: John Clemmer
Program Topic: Photoshop tricks. (Check out our *NEW* Videos page with our first six videos!)
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
May 13, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Guest Speaker: Susan Todd-Raque
Speaker Website: www.SusanTodd-Raque.com
Program Topic: What is going on in the retail Art Market
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
June 10, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Critique night
In preparation for submitting to our fall juried show, WIF begins our critique months with our peer critique. Bring 2-3 pieces, at least 8"x10", for critique. This was a gas last year, and this year's peer critique should be just as lively.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
July 8, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Program: Critique night
This will be our critique during which we will benefit from a professional's insights. Members may bring up to six images: prints (at least 8"x10") or on CDs. Kathryn Kolb will be our guest critique judge.
Judge's Website: www.KathrynKolb.com
Kathryn Kolb is a free-lance photographer working in the Atlanta area since 1985. Born in Indiana, she grew up in the rural surroundings of Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1983 she received a BA in History from Emory University in Atlanta, concentrating on ancient Europe and the Near East. In 1984-5 she took photography classes at the Southeastern Center for the Arts, in Atlanta. Although Kolb has had no formal training as an artist, visual artists are found in both her parents' families, and her paternal grandfather, Harold H. Kolb, was a noted watercolor painter working in Boston and the New England area.
Kolb's editorial work is characterized by an artistic style with strong graphic elements. Her photographs have been widely published and have appeared in Smithsonian, Veranda, Rolling Stone, Nature Conservancy, Orion magazine and others. Special photographic projects Kolb accomplished include: a series of environmental portraits of regional artists for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution; portraits of formerly homeless men and women who regained successful lives through Atlanta's Samaritan House, and self-published calendars of Atlanta and Athens musicians, including artists REM and Indigo Girls. In 1996, Kolb photographed a medical mission to rural communities in the Dominican Republic. In 1999, through Soho-Myriad Gallery (Atlanta), Kolb was commissioned to create non-traditional landmark portraits of the University of Virginia campus for a permanent installation at the University's Boar's Head Inn in Charlottesville. Images from Kolb's Tree Series were recently installed in the public spaces of the Children's Clinic at Emory University, and Kolb was one of five photographers selected to display work on Atlanta's MARTA buses for the public art project "Art in Motion," sponsored by the City of Atlanta in 2008.
Since the mid-nineties Kolb has shifted toward fine art images of natural forms and landscapes. Kolb's fine art series include black & white and color photographs of landscapes, trees and other plants from diverse natural environments. Her most recent work, mostly in color, explores abstract constructions that often seem more akin to painting than photography. As photographer, Kolb stays true to the simplest form of her medium - all works are straightforward, un-manipulated images, and she uses no digital cameras or printing techniques. Kolb takes all photographs with a Hasselblad medium format camera and prints with traditional enlargers. Her fine art photographs can be found in numerous private and institutional collections including those of the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, King & Spalding (Atlanta), Georgia Conservancy, Emory's Goizueta Business School, Georgia Tech, and the City of Atlanta.
In additional to fine art images of natural subjects, Kolb continues to do environmentally- oriented assignment work. In 1999-2001, Kolb produced calendars for Georgia Forestwatch, featuring unprotected areas in Georgia's national forests. Her work was included in the Sierra Club's Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, and she illustrated an article on kudzu for the October 2000 issue of Smithsonian.
Two of her Tree Series photographs were featured in the Oct/Nov 2001 Veranda magazine. The Wilderness Society commissioned Kolb to photograph roadless and wilderness areas of the southeastern Appalachians for the publication, Why Wilderness? What the Remaining Wildlands of the Southern Appalachians Mean to the People of the Southeast, published in 2004. These photographs along with others from the southeastern region were exhibited in a solo show of Kolb's work at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History (Atlanta) during the summer of 2005.
Kolb's interest in the environment goes beyond her visual aesthetic. Growing up in rural Virginia and with maternal family roots in the western North Carolina mountains, she developed a strong appreciation of the value of natural landscapes. Since the early nineties Kolb has worked to preserve and restore native forest environments and care for urban trees and greenspace. She helped to produce new tree ordinances for DeKalb County and the City of Atlanta, served on the board of Georgia Forestwatch, and helped the City of Atlanta acquire a greenspace in her neighborhood. She is also the principal founder of Keeping It Wild, a program of The Wilderness Society, dedicated to bringing diverse partners together with the conservation community in order to connect urban residents to natural lands and promote the protection and restoration of natural and wildlands in Atlanta, Georgia and the Southeast. In August 2005 Kolb and her work were featured as cover story in the Arts Section of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. In 2007 she was featured on TBS' award-winning television series Storyline.
Kolb's fine art photographs are currently available through Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta; Amanda Schedler Fine Art, Birmingham, AL; Artstudio 101, Scottsdale, AZ.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
August 12, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Your 6 images for the WIF XVI Juried Exhibition 2009, juried by Julian Cox, are due at this meeting — (9x12 envelope).
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
September 9, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Pick up your juried pieces from our WIF XVI Exhibit.
Program for the evening:
Please join us for a special demonstration of Adobe Lightroom 2. Lightroom 2 is an all-in-one computer environment that provides for photo organization and basic development of photographic images. There is something in this program for everyone — from the amateur to the advanced and professional photographer. It provides organization for your images and allows you to easily find your images, often in just seconds. If you are sick and tired of picking through your photo folders using Bridge and Windows Explorer and want a better way to find your photos, then this is the program for you. You will be amazed at how easily this program allows you to find what you are looking for. Lightroom also works seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Elements to allow the utmost flexibility in manipulating your images. However, Lightroom is a processing and manipulation program unto itself and does not necessarily require knowledge of Photoshop in order to benefit from its photo developing capabilities. While Lightroom is not a complete substitute for Photoshop, it can sometimes come close.
Tonight, club member, Ledra Davis, will demo this program. She will be teaching a day-long course on Lightroom 2 in conjunction with The Art School In Sandy Springs on Saturday, October 24th. The link for the class is http://www.TheArtSchoolInSandySprings.com/PHOTOGRAPHY.html. If you are interested in registering for this class, please go to http://www.TheArtSchoolInSandySprings.com/REGISTRATION.html and fill out the information. Please then mail a check payable to Ledra Davis Photography to:
The Art School in Sandy Springs
5197 Roswell Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30342.
Ledra Davis is an accomplished photographer and native Atlantan. Her curiosity and love for the American West leads her there often for her photography. Driven by this desire, she was even inspired to live for a year in Missoula, Montana in order to immerse herself into her love of photography. While her roots are deeply planted in landscape and outdoor photography, she enjoys shooting in just about any of the photographic genres. Much of her most current work focuses on people photography with a journalistic approach. You can view her work at www.LedraDavis.com.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
October 14, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
This month's meeting will be off campus.
The exhibit on display, "Dorthea Lange and Her Impact," includes work by Dorthea Lange, Ron Partridge, and Ruth Marion Baruch. The exhibit runs September 28 through November 14. The gallery is located at 425 Peachtree Hills Ave., Building 5, Suite 29B, Atlanta, GA 30305. Ladies interested in attending this special showing just for us signed up at the September meeting. Contact Gittel, if you would like to attend and weren't at the meeting to sign up. This is so we can have an idea of how many ladies will be there.
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November 11, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
(Veterans Day)
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Women In Focus' Annual Holiday Party & Print Swap
- December 9, 2009 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
(at Lorikay's Loft as voted by members)
It's a catered event. Food and drink are provided by Women In Focus. Lorikay will be sending out directions. Park in the back; walk into the green space; go up the first set of stairs, and the loft is the first door on the left. The party is for members only, so no guests and no spouses.
Bring a print to swap in an opaque 9 x 12 envelope, so that we may all add to our collections of outstanding photography.
Location: Lorikay's Loft at Studioplex
Address: 659 Auburn Ave. NE, Apt. #205, Atlanta, GA 30312-1975 (Google Maps)
Note: Since this is a catered event, please rsvp gittelp@bellsouth.net.
Guidelines for the print swap: The print you bring to swap must be a show quality print. The paper, color, focus, contrast, and condition of the print should be one that you would submit for judging. Please sign the print in pencil or archival ink. Avoid dings in the paper, dust on the print, and other detractors. Our goal is to swap fine art prints so we can collect fine art at cost. With all the talent we have in WIF, we are fortunate to have this opportunity! If you are not able to attend, you may have a member bring your print to swap. Remember to put it in an opaque 9 x 12 envelope with NO NAME on the envelope.
Here are some pictures of us enjoying our 2008 End-Of-The-Year Holiday Party -n- Print Swap! And, here is a picture of us enjoying our 2009 End-Of-The-Year Holiday Party -n- Print Swap! |
2008 |
January 9, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Location: Emory Conference Center
Address: 1615 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-4017
Phone Numbers:
(404) 712-6000 local
(877) 339-8727 toll free
Venue Website: www.emoryconferencecenter.com
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
February 12, 2008 (Tuesday)
Special Reception: 5pm - 7pm
Awards Announcement: 6pm
Monthly Meeting: 7pm - 8:30pm
 Guest Speaker: Mark Alberhasky
Speaker E-mail: mark@imagema.com
Speaker Bio: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Speaker Website: www.ImageMA.com (Look and see here.)
Speaker Blog: www.ImageMA.us (Leave a message here.)
Location (off campus): Shepherd Center
Address: 2020 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, GA 30309-1465
Google map. Their directions.
Phone Number:
(404) 352-2020 phone, General Information
Venue Website: www.shepherd.org
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
March 12, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Susan Todd-Raque
Speaker's Website: www.SusanTodd-Raque.com
Program Title: “From the Juror's Perspective”
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
April 9, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Dan S. Blevins, Director of Sales & Marketing for Hawk Mountain Papers, Norcross, GA
Speaker's Phone: (770) 845-5029
Speaker's E-mail: dan@gicleepaper.com
Program: He will be discussing printing and papers.
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May 14, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Alicia Kay of Pic-Tac inc. came up with a great product that she offered to let us use at this meeting. They are called Pic Tacs. They are used to hang things without harming the image. Her website is: www.pictacs.com. They are perfect for pin up shows.
 
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June 11, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Please bring up to 6 photographs un- mounted or framed for photo review.
If you want more information, check her website or go to RPS website www.roswellphotosociety.org under meetings.
Critique Judge: Parlee Chambers
Judge's Website: Studio Chambers
URL: www.studiochambers.com
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July 9, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
 Speaker: Craig M. Tanner
Speaker E-mail: craig@craigtannercreative.com
Speaker Website: www.craigtannercreative.com
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Craig
Tanner is an advertising photographer, film maker, and widely recognized as
a passionate and dynamic speaker and photographic educator. Craig is a founding
member of The Radiant Vista (www.radiantvista.com), one of the
Web's finest resources for photographic education and inspiration. As well
as having created a career in the world of landscape based advertising
photography, Craig — in his personal work — is a prolific photographer of people
and specializes in impromptu street portraits of the people he meets during his
travels. Craig's work exemplifies how the use of light, color, rhythm, and
emotional connection to the subject can bring out the special qualities of a
person, place or moment. You can discover more of his work by visiting his
website at http://www.craigtannercreative.com/
or his blog at http://www.craigtannercreative.com/lightdiary/.
Email Craig at: craigmtanner@comcast.net
Presentation:
“Finding the Heart of your Work”
In this visually rich presentation Craig will, through images and words, reveal the foundation principles behind his extremely popular, and for many participants, life changing Next Step creativity workshops. Craig will identify strategies for peeling away artistic fears, expectation and convention to find the passion, purpose, and heart of your work as an artist. Craig will also be showing some of his favorite images from the last five years as he has made his own journey from the convention of his traditional landscape photography to his current street portraits and his latest conceptual personal work. 
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August 13, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Show: Women In Focus (WIF)
Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP)
Juried Exhibit.
Critique Judge: Mark Alberhasky
NOTE: May bring 10 to 12 of your 8x10's (to help in making your decision) for judging at the WIF ACP Juried Exhibition (in September) to our August WIF monthly meeting. (Call for Entries / Entry Form) The 8x10's will be given back to our members at our September WIF monthly meeting. Fay Gold will be judging.
NOTE #2: Here is the Submission Form for the "Digital Arts / Women In Focus Artist Choice 2008" show.
Speaker E-mail: mark@imagema.com
Speaker Bio: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Speaker Website: www.ImageMA.com (Look and see here.)
Speaker Blog: www.ImageMA.us (Leave a message here.)
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September 10, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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October 8, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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November 12, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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December 10, 2008 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Women In Focus' Annual Holiday Party & Print Swap
(at Lorikay's Loft, this year)
Here are some pictures of us enjoying our
2008 End-Of-The-Year Holiday Party -n- Print Swap!
It's a go for Wednesday, December 10, 7:00 pm, to hold our Holiday Party and Print Swap at Lorikay's newly acquired loft studio. Lorikay is making contact and will hire a caterer, who will work within our sponsor-donated budget. He will be instructed to include vegetarian fare. The caterer will only be doing food, so BYOB, ladies. Lorikay will be sending out an e-vite for RSVP's and thorough directions. Until then, the address is 659 Auburn Ave., #205. Park in the back, walk into the green space, go up the first set of stairs, and the loft is the first door on the left.
The party is for members only, so no guests, no spouses, and I assume, no pets.
Bring a print to swap in an opaque 9x12 envelope, so that we may all add to our collections of outstanding photography.
Location: Lorikay's Loft
Address: 659 Auburn Ave. NE, Apt. #205, Atlanta, GA 30312-1975
Note: This is a catered event so please rsvp gittelp@bellsouth.net.
Guidelines for the print swap: The print you bring to swap must be a show quality print. The paper, color, focus, contrast, and condition of the print should be one that you would submit for judging. Please sign the print in pencil or archival ink. Avoid dings in the paper, dust on the print, and other detractors. Our goal is to swap fine art prints so we can collect fine art at cost. With all the talent we have in WIF, we are fortunate to have this opportunity! If you are not able to attend, you may have a member bring your print to swap. Remember to put it in a 9 x 12 envelope with NO NAME on the envelope. |
2007 |
January 10, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Craig M. Tanner
Speaker E-mail: craig@craigtannercreative.com
Speaker Website: www.craigtannercreative.com
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
February 13, 2007 (2nd Tuesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: Jennifer Kilberg
Speaker E-mail: jennifer@fluidvisioninc.com
Speaker Website: www.fluidvisioninc.com
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March 14, 2007 (2nd Wednesday):
Meet at 7pm in the lobby and ride the elevator together.
Speaker: Frank N. White
Speaker E-mail: frank.white@agg.com
Speaker Web page: www.arnallgolden.com/Contents/AttorneyDetail.aspx?ID=404
Location (off campus): Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Attorneys at Law
Address: 171 17th Street, Suite 2100, Atlanta, GA 30363-1031
Phone Numbers:
(404) 873-8500 phone
(404) 873-8501 fax
Venue Website: www.arnallgolden.com
ArtReview Magazine Names Arnall Golden Gregory Art Collection
Among World's Top 40 Corporate Collections
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
April 11, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Speaker: John Clemmer will critique our work. (John's bio)
Speaker E-mail: clemmerphoto@comcast.net
Speaker Web site: www.portfolios.com/johnclemmer
Location: Emory Conference Center
Address: 1615 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-4017
Phone Numbers:
(404) 712-6000 local
(877) 339-8727 toll free
Venue Website: www.emoryconferencecenter.com |
May 9, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
 Speaker: Susan Todd-Raque: Curator, collection consultant, photo-historian, and co-founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography
Program Title: “Current Trends in Photography?”
Location: Emory Conference Center
Address: 1615 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-4017
Phone Numbers:
(404) 712-6000 local
(877) 339-8727 toll free
Venue Website: www.emoryconferencecenter.com
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
June 13, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Our guest speaker for the June 13th meeting will be talented nature photographer, Charles Needle. His topic will be: “Creative Macro Photography: Going Beyond Documentation,” and the talk will include a multi-media digital slide presentation set to music.
Charles is a nationally known, highly acclaimed fine art and editorial nature photographer with a unique eye for design and artistic interpretation. His images are currently on display in 2 metro Atlanta REI stores, and his award-winning work is also on permanent display in numerous hospitals, corporate headquarters and private collections nationwide. He is a Fuji USA Talent Team member, charter member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA), winner of NANPA’s Members’ Showcase Award, and former magazine editor.
Charles maintains an active teaching and speaking schedule. His popular “Art of Nature” creative macro workshops, held in his backyard garden studio in Alpharetta, have attracted students from all over country. In addition, Charles has taught field workshops in exciting locations such as Callaway Gardens, Hilton Head Island (SC), the Smokies, Olympic National Park, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Dunwoody Nature Center, Chattahoochee Nature Center and many others.
Charles’ passion for nature photography comes from his own “healing” experiences with the camera. He used the camera as a tool for recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and he teaches other photographers how nature photography can be a tool for mindful awareness and healing.
Come hear ways to improve your close-up photography, with special focus on the “aesthetics” and translating your feelings/emotions onto film/into pixels.
To learn more about Charles and his work, visit his website, www.charlesneedlephoto.com.
Speaker: Charles Needle
Program Title: “Micro Photography: Going Beyond Documentation”
Speaker E-mail: info@charlesneedlephoto.com
Speaker Web site: http://www.charlesneedlephoto.com/
Meeting Minutes: Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
July 11, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Audrey Goolrick will be critiqing our photos this month. Please bring a maximum of four of your 8" x 10" (or comparable) photos with you to the meeting.
She is a freelance architectural photographer who has worked on both the east and west coasts in the commercial and advertising fields and has been published in a number of magazines. She receieved her technical training in Photography at Nothern Virginia College then worked with E. Alan McGhee, one of the country's leading architectural photographers.
Audrey was recognized as one of the top 100 color photographers in the U.S. in three national competitions sponsored by Photographers Forum Magazine. She is currently awaiting the final results of an international competition in which she placed in the top 5% of over 23,000 entries.
For numerous years, she has taught at the Smithsonian Institution's Resident Associate Program, offering classes in Architectural Photography and compostion and design courses specifically for Photographers.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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August 8, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Please bring up to six of your images in preparation for the WIF XIV 2007 show.
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
September 12, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Meeting Minutes: Microsoft Word (.doc), Web page (.html), Portable Document Format (.pdf) |
There will not be a Women In Focus Meeting in October
due to participating in October's month long
Atlanta Celebrates Photography IX (ACP9) |
Women In Focus Monthly Event: November 14, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) GA
Address: 1447 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309-3001
Phone Number: (404) 881-1109 local
Venue Website: www.mocaga.org
Invitation
Ladies, By many requests of WIF members, we will
not have a November meeting, but many of us will be attending this lecture at
MOCA GA next Wednesday, November 14th. I hope you can attend. We will be sending
out e-mails about our Holiday Party and print swap on Wednesday, December 12th from 7 to 10
pm. We will have a short business meeting before our party. If you have any questions, please
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December 12, 2007 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Women In Focus' Annual Holiday Party & Print Swap
Location: Emory Conference Center ( Dogwood Room )
Address: 1615 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-4017
Phone Numbers:
(404) 712-6000 local
(877) 339-8727 toll free
Venue Website: www.emoryconferencecenter.com
Note: This is a catered event so please rsvp gittelp@bellsouth.net.
Guidelines for the print swap:The print you bring to swap must be a show quality print. The paper, color, focus, contrast, and condition of the print should be one that you would submit for judging. Please sign the print in pencil or archival ink. Avoid dings in the paper, dust on the print, and other detractors. Our goal is to swap fine art prints so we can collect fine art at cost. With all the talent we have in WIF, we are fortunate to have this opportunity! If you are not able to attend, you may have a member bring your print to swap. Remember to put it in a 9 x 12 envelope with NO NAME on the envelope. |
2006 |
March 8th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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April 12th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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May 10th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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June 14th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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July 12th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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August 9th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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September 13th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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October 11th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
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November 8th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 9pm
Location:
NOTE: The November Meeting will NOT be at Emory.
It will be at Lucinda Bunnen's home.
Address: (coming via e-mail)
Phone Numbers: (coming via e-mail)
E-mail Address: (coming via e-mail) |
Women In Focus Holiday Party & Print Swap - December 13th, 2006 (2nd Wednesday): 7pm - 10pm
Location: Maria Mixson's home
RSVP Gittel Price for phone and address.
RSVP Jan Conboy for "covered dish" suggestions. |
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