ArtSpan's Selections

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Artists who registered for SF Open Studios in 2007, 2008, and/or 2009 are eligible to submit artwork for Selections, ArtSpan’s biennial juried exhibition. California Modern Gallery, located at 1035 Market Street, will host the Selections 2010 exhibition for two weeks. This exhibition, featuring 20 SF Open Studios artists, is a unique and exciting opportunity to have your work selected by prominent arts professionals and displayed in a gallery setting.

The Selections 2010 jurors are:
– Ray Beldner, artist
– Alison Bing, author and arts writer
– Inga Fischer, director of California Modern Gallery

submit artwork online

3rd Annual Plastic Camera Show at RayKo Photo Center

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3rd Annual Plastic Camera Show – The competition is open to artists working with plastic cameras with plastic lenses. The more obsolete, flawed, and lo-tech, the better. Images should be taken with cameras with limited controls, such as Diana, Holga, Lubitel, Lomo, Banner, and Ansco cameras. Beautiful prints from less-than-gorgeous cameras – that’s what we’re looking for!  Click the link above to download the submission form and entry guidelines.

via calls for entries at RayKo Photo Center.

Frank Espada’s ‘The Puerto Rican Diaspora’

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BAPC would not have existed were it not for Frank’s efforts in getting together a group of 16 dedicated photographers to set up a photogroup that also gives back to the community. Our founding members spent a year in setting up the legal structure as a nonprofit organization and working with the IRS and State Board over 10 years ago.

Traveling from Puerto Rico to New York and from Hartford to Hawaii, Frank Espada documented in loving portraits his countrymen and women engaged in ballet and theater, drug rehab and field work. Their faces are open, direct and trusting, presenting a nuanced take on complicated lives that are often led out of the spotlight.

via Showcase: Inside ‘The Puerto Rican Diaspora’ – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com.

Humble arts foundation | open call: 31 women in art photography

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Open Call: 31 Women in Art Photography
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, March 3 – Saturday, April 17, 2010
Curators: Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein

Location: Affirmation Arts, 523 W. 37th Street New York, NY 10018

In March 2010, in honor of Women’s History Month, Humble Arts Foundation (hafny.org) will present its second edition of 31 Women in Art Photography, a six-week exhibition celebrating 31 of the most innovative women in emerging art photography. The exhibition will be co-curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein, and will take place at Affirmation Arts.

via HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION | OPEN CALL: 31 WOMEN IN ART PHOTOGRAPHY .

Root Division Holiday Sale

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: THE UNDER 100 ‘H’ SALE
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2009, 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Join a select group of artisans and artists for a one-night-only sale.

Last year’s sale featured 40 vendors including prints, photos & drawings, as well as handmade bags, jewelry, and other artist-made items, and we hosted over 300 people.

Final deadline to participate is November 26th.

Artisans: Fee is $50 for 4 linear feet of table space. Table space is for those selling items other than art that can be hung on the wall.

Artists: You will receive 4 linear feet of wall space in which to hang your work. Root Division will collect 40% of sales. 60% will be yours to keep.

via Root Division Events.

SHOTS Magazine call for entries

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SHOTS Magazine
CALLS FOR WORK are open to all photographers internationally. All processes and techniques are welcomed. Color work will be reproduced in black & white. $15 for up to 20 images.

West Prize 2009

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The West Prize was launched in 2008 with the mission to find exciting new artists and adding them to the West Collection.

The West Prize will again award the 10 finalists $10,000 each to add their work to the West Collection. The application deadline is November 1, 2009 and artists must be 18 years or older and can live anywhere in the world.

via West Prize 2009 : Home.

RayKo Photo Center: artist-in-residence

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Next deadline is January 2, 2010. This is an ongoing program with 3 residencies a year.

Our Residence Program was developed to continue our support and education of fine art photographers. Through the program, artists receive a $1250 credit and one free class, or $1500 credit and no class. The credit is only for use of the rentals and services at RayKo, it is not a cash stipend for the purchase of supplies. The residence does not include a housing, transportation or food stipend.

via artist-in-residence at RayKo Photo Center.

Welcome to our new blog

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Our new blog and our new website—powered by WordPress. Please share with us any ideas for blog posts that are relevant to the San Francisco Bay Area fine art photography community.

Exhibitions Archive 2006-1999

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Tressider Memorial Union, Stanford University, Palo Alto.
The Neighborhood Project, June 2004. Twelve members showed diverse bodies of work around the concept of the neighborhood. This was a BAPC thematic project.

 

Adrienne Defendi

 

 

Focus Gallery, San Francisco.
Landscape: Real or Imagined (PDF), May 2003. Twenty one members showed their work in a show curated by Linda Conner.

Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco.
October, 2001. Documentary photography by three members: Kevin Desler, Idkah, a photo essay on life around the Idkah Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. Bill Mattick, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 2000. Gloria Upchurch, Shades of Africa.

San Francisco Art Commission City Hall Gallery.
March, 2001. Sponsored in part by the San Francisco Arts Commission. “Kay Taneyhill’s LasVegas Airport 2000, Emilie Valentine’s Diner,Uptown NY, and Kevin Desler’s travel photos of Yemen are standouts,” said Doug Konecky on DigitalCity.com.

Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco.
August, 2000.

Calumet Photo Gallery, San Francisco.
November, 1999.

Open Studios, San Francisco.
October, 1999.