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Saturday, Oct 13, 3-5pm at Parrish Street Forum in the heart of Black Wallstreet (108 W. Parrish St. Durham, NC) Light refreshments. Free & Open to the Public. The FENCE brings together world-class international photography. We have raised funds to do a very special project that leverages these visions from around the world for a group of local underrepresented students. Kids will be paired with local photography mentors to learn about photography using the FENCE as a springboard. The kids will…
Find out more »Once forgotten amongst the bustle of Southeast Asia, Myanmar is making its presence known on the global stage, for better or for worse. Its economy is growing on the foundation of oil and natural gas exports. Tourism is flourishing in this once closed military state. This growth is reflected in the day-to-day lives of the Burmese, as the heavy hand of government lifts ever so slowly. Vibrant colors pervade their work and their worship. Yet, behind the warm and welcoming…
Find out more »Reception and Meet the Artists: with Red Nucleus band, Michael Goy and David Cooper FRANK Artists/Former Educators Peter Filene, (UNC) Bill McAllister, (Art Institute of Atlanta), Barbara Tyroler, (University of Maryland), and Sam Wang (Clemson). With guests Diana Bloomfield, educator of 19th century photographic printing processes
Find out more »Photography Before Kodachrome: The One Hundred Year Search for Color While black and white defined fine art photography for many years, initially the lack of color in photographic images was seen as a serious deficiency by photographers and viewers alike. For most of its history, the remedy was to add pigment in a range of imaginative, often brilliant ways, while waiting for technology to solve the riddle of permanent color. This exhibit will present an array of vintage photographs with…
Find out more »We invite you to join us for an Art Reception for light fare, conversation with the artist, and a special installation/peek into how the works are created. When: Tuesday, October 16, from 5 - 7pm Where: Triangle Community Foundation, 800 Park Offices Dr., Suite 201, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 RSVP: This event is drop-in and open to the public, no need to RSVP. TinTypes: A Community Portrait This exhibition is a collaborative project by artists Leah Sobsey and Tim Telkamp. Leah Sobsey and…
Find out more »The Field Camera: Tom Rankin and Holden Richards Sweetgum by Holden Richards Horse & Buggy Press and Friends with guest musicians on the front porch.
Find out more »Artist's Talk with Eric Pickersgill and Amy Herman. In Diapositive, six artists take on found or neglected 35mm slide collections as medium and subject matter, subverting the format’s 20th century associations as didactic or diaristic storytelling tools. Once the premier medium for the communal presentation of photographic travelogues, as well as art historical instruction, 35mm slides collections are rarely built today yet they still persist and change hands, chiefly among artists, librarians, film enthusiasts, and nostalgists. Their beauty and complexity…
Find out more »The former LIFE magazine photojournalist and president of Magnum Photos discusses his recent work. Gregg Museum of Art & Design 1903 Hillsborough St.
Find out more »Click! is pleased to partner with the North Carolina Museum of Art to present a keynote talk by David Maisel: Black Maps and Other Dilemmas. In his ongoing, multi-chaptered series Black Maps, David Maisel’s aerial photographs of environmentally impacted sites explore the aesthetics and politics of radically human-altered environments. His images of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, zones of water reclamation, and military weapons testing sites frame the issues of contemporary landscape with equal measures of documentation and metaphor. Maisel’s…
Find out more »The Durham Art Guild presents "Sweeping the Graves," featuring photography and photography-based installation works by DAG member artist Dawn Surratt. The yearly April tradition of honoring ancestors in China is known as the Qingming or Ching Ming festival. Families sweep tombs, pray and make offerings to their deceased loved ones. This body of work combines photography and photography based installations in commemoration of the many souls this artist encountered after more than twenty years working as a hospice social worker.…
Find out more »Join us every Friday at 10 a.m., at Counter Culture Coffee. They stop what they’re doing and we taste coffee together. During October Local Photographers Work will be on display during the Click! Photography Festival and we will also have an artist talk by one each Friday. You are invited to join us in this free and open-to-the-public tradition, Tasting at Ten, at the Durham Roastery and Headquarters. No coffee experience necessary. Coffees and brewing methods vary. Tours of the…
Find out more »3rd Friday, Oct 19, 5.30p Docent Tour with Regional Winners (meet at the FENCE at 102 W. Parrish St., Durham, NC); Start your 3rd Friday off with a docent tour of the FENCE, hearing directly from regional winners in front of their work on the FENCE. Afterwards, head down the street at the Durham Arts Council for a wine & cheese reception followed by the fast-paced, engaging Pechakuchas.
Find out more »Artist Statement: I became a mother in January of 2013. When I did, the lens of my world changed. As a new mother who was raising children in my own hometown—now their hometown—I found myself struck by the realization that the Durham of my childhood looks so different from the Durham of today, and that the Durham of today will invariably look quite different from the Durham of tomorrow. I could hear the conversations we would have one day—the comments…
Find out more »The Durham Art Guild presents "Sweeping the Graves," featuring photography and photography-based installation works by DAG member artist Dawn Surratt. The yearly April tradition of honoring ancestors in China is known as the Qingming or Ching Ming festival. Families sweep tombs, pray and make offerings to their deceased loved ones. This body of work combines photography and photography based installations in commemoration of the many souls this artist encountered after more than twenty years working as a hospice social worker.…
Find out more »The Durham Art Guild presents #Found—a photo installation by DAG member artist Laura Williams. #Found is a series of photographs that belong to a visual journal which was originally posted to instagram beginning in January 2017. Influenced by light and dark, the weather, and the world close and far, each image is a moment found day by day. Please note that the exact location of this exhibition and the exact opening and closing dates are subject to change since Golden…
Find out more »JP Trostle continues his exploration of chaos and light with "Signals," on display at The Atomic Fern throughout the fall. A followup to his solo shows, "Luminous Creatures" and "Light Cycles," the artist once again delves into an examination of the happy accident, and imagines how solar wind and atomic decay might look if humans could see that far into the spectrum.
Find out more »Karen Healy: A Palette of Rust and Dreams Anchored in North Carolina’s Piedmont region, A Palette of Rust and Dreams is a vignette of a train journey as seen through the eyes of a traveler. Since 2015, Karen Healy has boarded the Piedmont and the Carolinian--two trains that travel between Rocky Mount and Charlotte, North Carolina--to document the people and communities touched by North Carolina’s railroad. These intimate photographs and audio recordings explore the space between destinations as they depict…
Find out more »ANTI-NOSTALGIA, curated by Olivia Huntley & elin o'Hara slavick, is a group exhibition of artists invited to create works utilizing found photographs. Artists will explore: our relationship to the photograph as an object; memories and sentimentality; history and the familial; the vernacular and the archive. ANTI-NOSTALGIA investigates how our attraction to and/or repulsion by found photographs does not come from nostalgia, but comes from a desire to confirm, deny and transform a reality. Curator websites: http://www.elinoharaslavick.com/ https://www.oliviadavishuntley.com/
Find out more »Mark Steinmetz Looking South, Photographs from the Do Good Fund, is an elegant and quiet collection of black-and-white photographs “drawn from the artist’s decades-long career photographing the southeastern United States, primarily in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. Steinmetz’s images are imbued with an intrinsically Southern tenderness, melancholy and longing that is universally resonant”. The work is documentary in nature but he brings a sublime seeing to his subjects, captured with a nod towards beauty and dignity and very much in…
Find out more »3rd Friday, Oct 19, 6:30-8pm in the theatre at the Durham Arts Council (120 Morris St, Durham, NC) Wine & Cheese Reception. Free and open to the public. Meet winners from the FENCE Durham 2018 at a wine & cheese reception, followed by their fast-paced, engaging Pechakuchas in which artists are allowed only 20 slides, at 20 seconds each. PechaKuchas originated in Tokyo from Klein-Dytham Architecture and has expanded around the world. It's been used for work in progress to new…
Find out more »Photoshop Bootcamp (Ages 14 & up) Our Introductory “Level 1” Photoshop workshop is ideal for both those new to Photoshop and more experienced users who want to dramatically improve their Photoshop skills and abilities in a one-day workshop format. Students must have a basic knowledge of PC Windows or Mac. Computers provided with Adobe Creative Cloud. Students are welcome to bring their own personal laptop but must have their own Adobe Photoshop software or subscription. Roylee Duvall, Instructor 18FA830.1 Saturday,…
Find out more »WetPlate Collodion Students will be introduced to the intricacies of the WetPlate Collodion Process through hands-on training by Chris Morgan. Students will discuss the safety, chemistry, equipment, and techniques over a 2 day span. From mixing chemistry to creating images with various cameras, students will get their hands wet with the entire process. Students are welcome to bring their own cameras for use, if they are wetplate compatible. A materials fee of $60 is due to the instructor and will…
Find out more »The web of family has been a constant source of inspiration for artists and documentarians. Folklore, oral storytelling, and material objects are passed down from generation to generation. Language transforms as families migrate and relocate to urban, suburban, and rural settings. Much of the time, photo albums are tucked away in basements or drawers and remain untouched. In this workshop, we’ll look at examples of family documentary as new and seasoned family researchers embark on their own investigations. Informed by…
Find out more »Photography Before Kodachrome: The One Hundred Year Search for Color While black and white defined fine art photography for many years, initially the lack of color in photographic images was seen as a serious deficiency by photographers and viewers alike. For most of its history, the remedy was to add pigment in a range of imaginative, often brilliant ways, while waiting for technology to solve the riddle of permanent color. This exhibit will present an array of vintage photographs with…
Find out more »Panel discussion / gallery talk with curators Olivia Huntley and elin o’Hara slavick and local artists in the exhibition, including Ben Alper, Deepan Mukhopadhyay and Ann Pegalow Kaplan Anti-Nostalgia is a group exhibition of artists invited to create works utilizing found photographs. Artists explore: our relationship to the photograph as an object; memories and sentimentality; history and the familial; the vernacular and the archive; and alternative and interventionist narratives. A photograph provides both a historical and unattainable reality. Anti-Nostalgia investigates…
Find out more »Authors reading essays from Mothers & Strangers, a UNC Press anthology edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith.
Find out more »“I Be Person I No Be Number” investigates how civil liberty groups and human rights movements around the world have become potent platforms in the hands of ordinary citizens and their potential impact on dictatorial rule. The up-and-coming Nigerian photographers in this exhibition highlight the friction between two opposing forces – the people's yearning for freedom and the underhanded machinations of corrupt leaders who have remained in the forefront of Nigerian democracy since independence. In a year when both Nigeria…
Find out more »Artist's Talk with Jean Shin. Artist Jean Shin will be speaking about her creative process and share stories behind the scenes making her large scale installations and public works. In the context of the current work on view, made out of 35mm art history slides, she’ll discuss the role of photography, material obsolescence, and the archive in her practice. Jean Shin is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. For…
Find out more »Artists Reception: Chris Ogden: Stones Echo - Visual Poems Written on Quarry Walls
Find out more »Artist Reception: October 26 from 6-8 with juror comments at 6:30. Exhibition runs from October 26 - December 14
Find out more »Artist Reception: October 27 from 6-8 with juror comments at 6:30.
Find out more »Saturday, Oct 27, 5-7p starting at the FENCE (meet at 102 W. Parrish St., Durham, NC) Bring a camera and your walking shoes to the world’s largest photography public art exhibit. Learn about top quality photography from around the world in a docent-led tour. Then, pick out your favorite artist’s work that speaks to you and figure out how s/he uniquely sees the world and what photographic styles/methods they used to communicate their vision (eg, framing, points of view, equipment, timing,…
Find out more »Be inspired by photographs in the exhibition Candida Höfer in Mexico, and take your own photos of the Museum campus. Print and alter pictures on site to create a mixed-media work of art. Free art-making activities for all ages. No reservations needed. East Building, NC Museum of Art
Find out more »After the talk, visitors are invited to see the Steinmetz exhibit at KONTEK Systems which is a short walk away. Mark Steinmetz Looking South, Photographs from the Do Good Fund, is an elegant and quiet collection of black-and-white photographs “drawn from the artist’s decades-long career photographing the southeastern United States, primarily in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. Steinmetz’s images are imbued with an intrinsically Southern tenderness, melancholy and longing that is universally resonant”. The work is documentary in nature but…
Find out more »North Carolina abounds with passionate collectors of things: cars, furniture, glass, posters, historical documents, paintings, drawings, and photographs. Collectors of any type should be celebrated. They bring together the bits and pieces of our culture and give them coherence and meaning. These related exhibitions focus on two private North Carolina collections of American photography from its early decades, when image making seemed more magic than science, but never less than art.The Collector’s Eye: Early photographs of African Americans from the…
Find out more »NC State’s Gregg Museum and Duke’s Power Plant Gallery have joined forces to show Southbound—Photographs of and about the New South, a joint mega-exhibition that seeks to reveal the South through the lenses of fifty-five contemporary photographers. Chosen by Mark Sloan and Mark Long of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, Southbound presents places and images they saw as indelibly and irrefutably “Southern.” The South has been transformed multiple times over through war, historical events, cultural shifts, economic upheavals, and the shattering of…
Find out more »The Forum for Scholars and Publics (FSP) presents Danielle Purifoy (Dept. of Geography, UNC-CH), Sue Sturgis (Inst. for Southern Studies), and Courtney Woods (Environmental Sciences & Engineering, UNC-CH) discussing activism, law, health, journalism, and public policy relating to environmental justice.
Find out more »Director of the MFA program in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University talks about his photographs in Southbound.
Find out more »The Ackland recently launched a major initiative to build its collection of art from the Islamic world. A small exhibition, presented in conjunction with “She Who Tells a Story,” will showcase seven recent purchases, including calligraphic manuscripts, textiles, metalwork and an architectural fragment all dating from the 8th century CE to the 17th century. There will be one rotation of the textiles and Qur’anic manuscripts on Friday, November 22, midway through the show.
Find out more »Conversations with local thinkers and doers in collaboration with Be Connected Durham. Ahanu is resident artist at St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center and co-founder of Black Poetry Theatre.
Find out more »Duke’s Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) students explore a single photograph in real depth.
Find out more »"She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World" brings together the vital pioneering work of 12 leading artists, ranging in genre from portraiture to documentary: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian. During this critical time for Iran and the Arab world, as national and personal identities are being dismantled and rebuilt, contemporary photography reflects the complexities of unprecedented change. One of the most significant trends to…
Find out more »Opening Reception for John Rosenthal's Other Than Itself and Wojtek Wojdynski's Symbiosis
Find out more »Meet at the Power Plant Gallery in the American Tobacco Campus (320 Blackwell Street) in Durham at 1:30, then ride round trip to the Gregg Museum in Raleigh to experience Southbound at both locations. Pre-registration required: ridethebusheagins.eventbrite.com.
Find out more »Triangle Area photographers present their camera work. Q&A follows.
Find out more »Charity Valentine uses scanners as an innovative tool to create hauntingly beautiful photographic images. These Scanograms feature flora and fauna to tell stories of her childhood experiences. Valentine, Head of the Fine Arts Department at Pitt Community College, will discuss her work and her process during this Making Space presentation. Charity will also lead a hands-on workshop, "Finding Beauty: Scanners as a Creative Tool" in the evening after her talk. Registration is required. Register here.
Find out more »This workshop will introduce techniques that utilize a readily available low-price digital tool as a high output digital camera. The scanner can transform objects into extraordinarily detailed large format files capable of being printed at large format sizes. You will learn how to make images that straddle the borders of still-life, flower arranging and Cliché Vere. The workshop will be taught by visiting artist Charity Valentine, Head of the Fine Arts Department at Pitt Community College Intermediate: Should have a basic…
Find out more »Discussion regarding the artists’ work documenting the African American experience in New Orleans and the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Reception follows.
Find out more »Mark Sloan and Mark Long of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston School of the Arts describe the process that brought together images of the 21st century South.
Find out more »Artist Reception: December 6, 2019, 6 – 8 PM “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Stieglitz Photography has long been a rapidly evolving medium with the introduction of new technologies, making it ever easier to capture an image. Very few artists continue to produce images using tintypes, wet plate negatives or for that matter even rolled film. The introduction of the cell phone camera jettisoned these past image methods to…
Find out more »A Certain Uncertainty from the Cassilhaus Collection curated by Lori Vrba and Tama Hochbaum October 6 - November 24, 2019 OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, October 6th, 2-4 PM THE HORACE WILLIAMS HOUSE IS OPEN THURSDAY and FRIDAY 12-4 PM SUNDAY 2-5 PM
Find out more »A Certain Uncertainty from the Cassilhaus Collection curated by Lori Vrba and Tama Hochbaum October 6 - November 24, 2019 OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, October 6th, 2-4 PM THE HORACE WILLIAMS HOUSE IS OPEN THURSDAY and FRIDAY 12-4 PM SUNDAY 2-5 PM
Find out more »Elizabeth Stone Please join us for the opening of Observare, a spectacular exhibition of abstract photography featuring the work of Philip Augustin and Elizabeth Stone, two recent alumni from the Click! Photography Festival. Observare includes an unprecedented five site-specific installations realized at Cassilhaus by the artists in advance of the opening. Ever see a 32 foot string of Instagram images? We've got it. How about a walk through a field of Chemigrams?? First time for everything! 3000 35mm negatives sewn together?? Check! When was your…
Find out more »It is our individual and collective memories of life experiences that shape who we are and define our path. Focusing on the notion of a guiding inner compass, this installation of imagery and objects speaks to the metaphors of memory and direction. Using the camera, assemblage, and bookmaking, Vrba and Surratt present a show of storytelling that is evocative, sensitive, and feminine. October 11 – December 20 Receptions: Thurs. Oct 17; 6–8pm & Sat. Nov. 16; 5–7pm Horse & Buggy Press and Friends https://www.horseandbuggypress.com/news-events-1 1116…
Find out more »Lynne Saville will be showing her work at Through This Lens and will be leading a one day workshop for twilight and night photography the following day, October 19, 2019 from 2 pm to 8 pm. Learn more at this page: https://throughthislens.com/saville_workshop.html "Metropolitan Roof, New York, New York" © 2019 Lynne Saville
Find out more »On view in the Durham Arts Council Semans Gallery, Derrick Beasley's photo and sculpture exhibit, “Black Wholes as Possibilities,” is an exploration of black holes as a way to understand the long-standing absence of holistic depictions of Black folks (Black Wholes). It explores what it is like to be and experience a Black (W)hole, as well as the distorted vastness of the void experienced when you are not seen as whole, made invisible by the weight of your experience. “Black…
Find out more »Licia Priest’s current series “Africa Revealed Layer by Layer” focuses on revealing seldom understood African perspectives to heighten awareness of the continent’s diversity. This body of work is comprised of photographic images taken in the country of Zimbabwe in 2016 that show the beauty of the people and varying landscapes. The process used to create the finished artwork is called ‘paper tole.’ It involves using multiples of the same image and cutting and shaping each layer and reassembling the image…
Find out more »Probe a single photograph with Duke MFAEDA students.
Find out more »Open House for David Haas Photographics, The Jean Gray Gallery and Click! Photography Festival Updates and Drawing.
Find out more »David Haas Photographics and the Jean Gray Gallery are designed as a photographic workspace and community resource for Chapel Hill and the surrounding areas. This dedicated facility will act as the home base for David Haas Photography as well as a studio and photographic print lab for personal and professional use. The print lab will also be offered for select outside fine art printing and the photography studio will be available for select rentals. The Jean Gray Gallery represents the front exhibit space…
Find out more »This exhibition, loaned through the Bank of America Art in Our Communities program, features 45 photographs, spanning the 20th century, by six internationally renowned photographers who focused their cameras on Mexico: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Carrillo, Flor Garduño, Graciela Iturbide, Paul Strand, and Mariana Yampolsky.Mexico’s landscapes, history, and culture have inspired photographers since the advent of the medium. Álvarez Bravo started his career in Mexico City in the 1920s and became one of the leading modernist photographers and teachers. He…
Find out more »(Graciela Iturbide, Angel Woman, Sonora Desert, Mexico, 1979 (printed later), gelatin-silver print, 9 ½ x 13 in., Bank of America Collection, © 2019 Graciela Iturbide) This exhibition, loaned through the Bank of America Art in Our Communities program, features 45 photographs, spanning the 20th century, by six internationally renowned photographers who focused their cameras on Mexico: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Carrillo, Flor Garduño, Graciela Iturbide, Paul Strand, and Mariana Yampolsky. Mexico’s landscapes, history, and culture have inspired photographers since the advent…
Find out more »Meet at the Gregg Museum at 1903 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh at 1:30 for a brief tour, then board the bus for a round trip to the Power Plant Gallery in Durham to experience Southbound at both locations. Kariko will discuss his own work along the way. Pre-registration required: gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.
Find out more »These prints were shot between 1999-2004, a mixture of Joseph Rafferty's Editorial Commissions & his Personal Work. Printed by Joseph's friend Michelle and Master Printer of A&I Photographic Laboratory in North Hollywood, CA. The two met circa 2001, Michelle had just printed entire show for American Photographer, Sallie Mann. All prints from "LOST" disappeared in 2007 until 2018, when discovered by a child rummaging through obscure toy box. These Toned RC Master Prints prints represent alternative printing processes, polaroid techniques from by gone…
Find out more »It is our individual and collective memories of life experiences that shape who we are and define our path. Focusing on the notion of a guiding inner compass, this installation of imagery and objects speaks to the metaphors of memory and direction. Using the camera, assemblage, and bookmaking, Vrba and Surratt present a show of storytelling that is evocative, sensitive, and feminine. October 11 – December 20 Receptions: Thurs. Oct 17; 6–8pm & Sat. Nov. 16; 5–7pm Horse & Buggy Press and Friends https://www.horseandbuggypress.com/news-events-1 1116…
Find out more »A discussion of three photo series: One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana; Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish; and Passion Play, depicting Angola Prison inmates’ theatrical performance of “The Life of Jesus Christ.”
Find out more »Lonnie Holley: The Man is the Music (Maris Curran dir.), and I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, directed by Lonnie Holley and Cyrus Moussavi. Q&A with Holley in person. Celebrates 25th anniversary of Music Maker Relief Foundation in collaboration with Duke Performances. Light lunch follows. Limited seating, arrive early. Doors open at 11:45am.
Find out more »It is our individual and collective memories of life experiences that shape who we are and define our path. Focusing on the notion of a guiding inner compass, this installation of imagery and objects speaks to the metaphors of memory and direction. Using the camera, assemblage, and bookmaking, Vrba and Surratt present a show of storytelling that is evocative, sensitive, and feminine. October 11 – December 20 Receptions: Thurs. Oct 17; 6–8pm & Sat. Nov. 16; 5–7pm Horse & Buggy Press and Friends https://www.horseandbuggypress.com/news-events-1 1116…
Find out more »PIC Grant Recipient Will Warasila: Big Backyard a publication and exhibit. A group show and publication of images that respond to the ideas of invisibility and during these uncertain times, juxtaposing private and public spaces. Participants Tom Rankin, Chris Sims, Phyllis Dooney, Jeremy M. Lange, Cassandra Klos, Rachel Jessen, Alanna Styer, Carlos Jaramillo have been asked to point their camera at the people close to them during the Covid 19 isolation.
Find out more »The verb “to flex” essentially has one of two meanings. It can mean to show off, to gloat, or to boast, which is the most popular definition of the word; however, it can also mean to put on a fake front, to fake it, or force it. The second definition is usually used in conjunction with the first — as in, someone who’s gloating about something that they’ve really got no right to gloat about, lying about an accomplishment, or…
Find out more »Our lives are full of stories – some deeply personal and specific, others universally relatable. My story is beautiful, complicated, and bittersweet. Life is just that way. So are photographs. The genesis of an image comes from moments of life, like a still from an old movie. Movement and pain and the simple joys of being alive are frozen in time – a study of fictional worlds based in reality. Compelled to share these stories, and create these images, I…
Find out more »Works by artists and craftspersons who have exhibits or events scheduled in the future. “Trailer” because these works act as trailers or teasers for their upcoming exhibits, and “Park” because the exhibit is parked in the gallery until we can safely gather (and then remains up for another month).
Find out more »The show displays the logic of a mind that has given in to insomnia and accepted as reality, the faltering line between consciousness and dreams. Anyone who has stayed up all night knows that there are moments of acute perception at the height of exhaustion.
Find out more »These photographs and videos pay homage to Film Noir. This genre first evolved out of economic necessity following World War II as low to modestly budgeted film projects. The result of working with minimal equipment and resources led to creative experimentation then and now.
Find out more »Maya Freelon's incredible new exhibition Greater Than or Equal To opens in the Main Gallery this week. In her artist statement, Maya states, "Visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and the strength of the human being is how my godmother and namesake, award-winning author and activist Maya Angelou, described my artwork. Her poetic words illuminate--just like tissue paper, people are both fragile and resilient.
Find out more »Sandra Mae Jensen is a fine art photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sandra’s work personifies the visual impact of dramatic landscapes across the United States. During photographic studies in the Washington, D.C. area through the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Sandra became inspired by the works of Imogen Cunningham.
Find out more »While following a happy accident down the rabbit hole, I discovered a world of light and motion that exists only inside the camera. My abstract snapshots explore texture and movement through an unconventional use of digital photography, reshaping familiar locations into ethereal landscapes, and capturing the impression of memory and emotion
Find out more »As a psychoanalyst, I have been accustomed to working in the métiers of prose and poetry even though my patients were often trying to describe what they pictured visually. A few years ago I decided as a photographer to take what was described to me in words and place it back in the visual language in which it originated. Sign-up required visitthroughthislens@gmail.com
Find out more »In 2019, five seventh-grade students embarked on a class that taught the principles of photography, storytelling, and social change. What followed was a collection of reflective photography that examined the physical environment of Hunts Point: the beauty they desired to uplift, the areas they hoped to shift, and the ways they could challenge stereotypes others have placed on their community. Registration Link: https://forms.gle/653dYLyefzuazqEu9
Find out more »The FENCE is the largest public art photography project in the world with almost 250 photographs from a diverse roster of 50 photographers from around the globe including 9 North Carolina-based artists and two regional artists.
Find out more »The FENCE is the largest public art photography project in the world with almost 250 photographs from a diverse roster of 50 photographers from around the globe including 9 North Carolina-based artists and two regional artists on the national fence. Through November 15th. Downtown Durham, across from City Hall in the heart of Black Wall Street (around 102 W. Parrish St.)
Find out more »A free public conversation with photographer Nelson Morales, who will have select photographs from his series Musas Muxe on view at the Ackland. The photographs explore the everyday life of muxes—people who identify as a third gender—of the Oaxaca state of Mexico. Nelson will be joined by Allen Blevins, collector of Morales’ work and lender of several to the Ackland, and Lauren Turner, the Ackland’s Assistant Curator for the Collection. Register Here
Find out more »A Zoom discussion on the significance of Black photographers, the power of the camera’s gaze, and photography’s role in movements for human rights and social justice. The panel will feature Jamaica Gilmer, photographer and founder of "The Beautiful Project,” Dare Kumolu-Johnson, documentary photographer and visual storyteller, and Jay Simple, visual artist and founder of Photographer’s Green Book. The discussion will be moderated by independent curator and art historian Anita Bateman, Ph.D. Register Here
Find out more »Award-winning artist, author, and educator Deborah Willis will deliver the virtual 2020 Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture, titled Reflections on the Power of a Single Image. Willis’s talk will consider how images of black social protests are fixed in our popular imagination through the photograph. Register Here NOTE: The event registration page notes that registration will be closed after 10/14/2020 and that "You will NOT be able to register on or after this date!"
Find out more »"Finding my Voice" This will be a virtual talk via Zoom. Stay tuned for RSVP details. Mark Osterman began his personal investigation of early photographic processes while attending the Kansas City Art Institute in the 1970s. When he stumbled upon the wet collodion process in the 1980s he found a technique that suited his personal interest in early technology. Once mastering the process he regarded it as simply another tool and it took years for him to find the voice…
Find out more »The installation at the Gregg Museum features work that symbolically portrays the lives of members of the Amish community whose farms surround Althouse’s Pennsylvania home, further enhanced with an audio ambience built from recordings of Amish religious services.
Find out more »"Only Chance is Fair” This will be a virtual talk via Zoom. Register here. Emmet will give a brief overview of his and Edith’s lives, leading up to a concentration on his three most recent publications: The Nevada Test Site, 2019, Princeton University Press., Mariposas Nocturnas – Moths of Central and South America / A Study in Beauty and Diversity, 2017, Princeton University Press and Hidden Likeness, Emmet Gowin at the Morgan, 2015, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
Find out more »FRANK in partnership with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University is pleased to announced the 8th annual exhibition and program: FRANK:inFocus, The Art Gallery as Classroom, opening October 16 at Through This Lens Gallery. With a series of social-distancing receptions, students from CDS photography class Concept to Print to Gallery and professional photographers and educators with FRANK gallery will share photographs and the photographic processes that inform the production of their imagery.
Find out more »The Big Camera Project will now be working with area photo groups and schools to create Lumen Prints as part of the "Postcards for the Pandemic" project.
Find out more »The Big Camera Project will now be working with area photo groups and schools to create Lumen Prints as part of the "Postcards for the Pandemic" project. We are creating a socially distanced pop-up camera obscura at the Fruit. The Big Camera is supported by A1LabArts.
Find out more »This will be a virtual talk via Zoom. Join us for a lively presentation of the regional artists whose work appears on the 2020 version of the Fence. Each artist will give a 5 minute presentation on their work. If you wish to see the Fence in person, it is the largest outdoor photography exhibition in the world and is on display in Downtown Durham, in the green space between Main Street and Chapel Hill street adjacent to City Hall…
Find out more »This will be a virtual talk via Zoom. Featuring: Mark Osterman, Jill Enfield, John Allen, Adam Finkelston. Register Here
Find out more »Drawing from the phrase “driving while black” our panelists will discuss what being Black behind the lens means regarding the challenges and experiences from the perspective of black creators and curators of art and documentary photography. Register Here
Find out more »The Big Camera Project will now be working with area photo groups and schools to create Lumen Prints as part of the "Postcards for the Pandemic" project.
Find out more »Nasisse plays with this deeply planted instinct by focusing his lens on naturally eroded rock formations in the Southwest and South, while making clay pieces that challenge the viewer to discern the intentionality that went into creating them. The tension between images of rocks that “accidentally” look intentional and ceramic sculptures that intentionally look accidental yields a rare opportunity to see how seeing works.
Find out more »Join photographer Susan Harbage Page and Gregg Museum Director Roger Manley for a live virtual program and discussion about Harbage Page’s photographs in a past exhibition, Borderlands – Evidence from the Rio Grande (Gregg Museum, February 7–July 28, 2019). Register Here
Find out more »The show displays the logic of a mind that has given in to insomnia and accepted as reality, the faltering line between consciousness and dreams. Anyone who has stayed up all night knows that there are moments of acute perception at the height of exhaustion.
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