Friday night exhittion

Alumna Jeremiah Jossim has a solo outdoor installation, Shrine, with the May 1st Art March. Desoto and 40th Street 6-9.

Spend a day at the beach at annual SCAD Sand Arts Festival

Friday, May 1 starting at 10 am
Judging takes place from 2-3pm
Awards Ceremony is at 3:45

SCAD Sand Arts Festival: it’s one for the bucket list. Spend the day on Tybee Island’s picturesque North Beach and watch in awe as elaborate creations rise from the sand. Enjoy the picture-perfect setting and cheer on your favorite SCAD artists. Just make sure to get there before the tide comes in!

Alumnus Eli Schmidt

Alumnus Eli Schmidt continues to rock the Fashion world

New work with Krista Kober for Donna Karan New York PreFall 2015 see more at donnakaran.com
ww.elischmidt.com

Call for entries — The Look is back with a $3,500 grand prize

Advertising, Editorial, Still Life/Accessories, Personal Work/Fine Art, Runway/Street Scenes, Beauty, Debut/Student, and Motion. All winners will be published in the October issue of PDN.

See last year's winners' gallery at wwwww.pdnthelook.com/gallery/2014/.

ONE GRAND-PRIZE WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

$3,500 cash prize

A $500 B&H Gift Card
A one-page profile in an issue of PDN

SEVEN FIRST-PLACE WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:
$100 B&H Gift Card

ALL WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

A one-year PHOTO+ Basic Membership
A place in the print/online winners' gallery in the October 2015 issue of PDN
The official winners' seal for The Look

Visit www.pdnthelook.com for all information on how to enter.

Alumni News

©Ayden Grace

We are very excited that Ayden Gotzmer's image from 2014 Silver and Ink exhibition was used to advertise our program in the spring issue of PDN EDU

Adyen is successfully working in Dallas. See her websites www.orchidretouching.com
www.aydengrace.com

Landfall call for submissions

The SCAD exhibitions department invites SCAD students, professors, staff and alumni to submit entries for the 2015 summer sales exhibition “Landfall.” The exhibition seeks work from SCAD artists working in the landscape genre, and pieces that engage with environmental issues, mapping, cityscapes and the natural world are welcome. The title “Landfall” also suggests a first encounter or arrival, and works that take this into consideration are acceptable, as are submissions that celebrate the majesty and beauty of local and international landscapes.

The Landfall call for submissions welcomes artists making work from a variety of disciplines including but not limited to painting, photography, sculpture, fibers, film/video, animation, drawing and printmaking.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, May 3
Exhibition dates: Gutstein Gallery, June 15 - Sept. 5
Entries will be accepted only online. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Please note that no email entries will be accepted.  Please include the following information for each entry:

• Images of individual works with image files titled to match the works' title. Images must show completed work, and images of 2-D work must incorporate the frame if the work is framed.
• Word document containing name, mailing address, email address, phone number, current SCAD status (e.g., M.F.A. painting student), with a checklist of works submitted that includes title of work, medium, dimensions, year and artist price. Please note that for professors, alumni and staff, artist price is marked up 50 percent and 30 percent for matriculated students.
• A word document résumé or CV including artist exhibition history, separated into group and solo shows, and awards and honors. Do not include contact information or graphics.

Send an email to Chris Constas with any questions. Entries will be reviewed and selected artists will be notified in a timely fashion.
Learn more about SCAD exhibitions.

Christian Cognazzo

Where are they now?
Christian Cognazzo BFA Photography 2003

(2014-Current) Manager at MANA CONTEMPORARY / MANA FINE ARTS in Chicago, IL

Here I manage inventory, art handling, installation, and transportation of items acquired from both private and institutional clients.

http://www.manacontemporarychicago.com/

 

The foundation I got from SCAD gave me a strong art history as well as photography background.  This included the preservation and conversation of art work abroad which directly helped me acquire jobs in my field.  

 

SCAD photography professors have given me assistance to project myself in the Fine Art World. This support has been critical. I have been in both group and solo shows. I have curated a show and had an internship with Joyce Tenneson as graphic designer for her AMAZING MEN photography book.  In addition the JEPSON/ TELFAIR Museum accepted one of my pieces for their permanent collection. 

Photogroup Competition: Silver & Ink weekend

Photogroup is having a Silver and Ink Giveaway competition. All students need to do is post an instagram photograph with the hashtag #scadphotogroup while attending a Silver and Ink event and two students stand a chance to win 1 of 2 build-it-yourself TLR camera kits!

PHOTOGROUP: Russ Bryant presentation

Photogroup will be having its next meeting this Wednesday, 4/29 at 8:00 PM at the Bergen 100 Conference Hall. We are thrilled to announce that we are having SCAD Alumnus, Russ Bryant speak at our meeting.

 

Russ Bryant is a freelance photographer who shoots images for a variety of commercial, corporate and editorial clients. Most notably, Russ is a contributor for the New York Times, the Associated Press and post-secondary education clients. His assignments have taken him throughout the United States and to the Azores, Morocco, Turkey, Croatia, Montenegro, Portugal, Grenada, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Puerto Rico, Saint Thomas, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Brazil.

Thursday Night Lecture SCAD MOA 7pm

Canadian Time 2

Chritine Kirouac Artist Lecture, SCAD MOA auditorium Thursday, April 23, 7pm

Christine Kirouac is an Canadian Interdisciplinary artist with an MFA from Concordia University Montreal. In 2008 she moved to NC teaching studio and Art History at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem State University, Greensboro College and Salem College For Women. Over the last twenty-five years, she has participated in multiple residencies at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, the Kunst & Complex in Rotterdam NED and was short-listed for the renowned Rijksakademie Residency Program in Amsterdam in 2006. She has received over thirty grants from supporters including The Canada Council for the Arts, The National Film Board, The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation and most recently received a Project Grant from the Winston-Salem & Forsyth Arts Council in North Carolina for her print-based project Papermen.

Exhibition highlights and screenings include the Lisbon International Film Festival, Belfast NI Billboard Project, The Ireland Park Foundation video commission Toronto, Cinesonica: Festival of Cinema Sound Vancouver, the 4th Cairo International Video Festival in Egypt and Global House 2011, curated by the Gwang Ju Curatorial Biennale Program in South Korea. In 2012, Don’t Go Away was short-listed for New Frontiers Program at Sundance, and in 2014 at Heritage International Conference and Film Program; Food Diaspora - Speisediaspora Berlin. She performed her twelve-hour piece Canadian Time for Receiverfest in Charleston SC 2011, and screened its time-lapse video at the 31st Festival of Films On Art in Montreal, and at the 5th Exposition L’ Art Video et Multimedia in Marseille France in 2012. From 2012 to 2014 Kirouac was Director/Curator for Multiples Chicago Critical Craft & Visual Culture Fair, New Material Art Fair Miami and Verge Art Fair NYC all based out of Chicago IL. 

Photo by Diana Greene

Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor Keynote Lecture SCAD MOA auditorium Saturday, April 25, 4pm

Maggie Taylor works solely with digital images. Her playful spirit comes through in her work and contributes to its wide acceptance. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004 and her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and is represented within the permanent collections of numerous museums.

Black Maria Film Festival

The Black Maria Film Festival is THIS FRIDAY!  7PM at Trustee's Theater! 

Tons of short animation, experimental, doc, and groovy narrative work!  Check it out!

Everything is SHORT SHORT (under 10 mins)

ONE NIGHT ONLY!


SCAD hits milestone as host of 34th Black Maria Film Festival

SAVANNAH, Georgia — Friday, April 17 — The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is pleased to host the 34th Black Maria Film Festival for the 17th consecutive year.

Hosted by the SCAD Department of Film and Television, the event will run on Friday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at the Trustee's Theater, 216 E. Broughton St., Savannah, Georgia. In hosting this year, SCAD becomes the home for the film showcase for half of the festival’s lifespan.

The event features prominent short works less than 10 minutes each, challenging the traditional nature of cinema. Admission is $5 a person for the general public and free to students, faculty and staff with a valid university ID.

About the Black Maria Film Festival
The traveling showcase presents diverse, expressive and passionate short films and videos by independent artists. The festival is committed to works exploring the potential of the medium to illuminate, provoke, enrich and engage viewers.

Imaginative and revelatory films are sought to provide insight into the human condition, including political, social and environmental issues and work addressing the lives of people with disabilities. It will feature projects ranging from narrative and animation to experimental and documentary.

Message from the dean: Steve Bliss

Silver & Ink Exhibit OPEN NOW!!!

‘Silver & Ink’ 2015 photography exhibition Now through Saturday, May 30

Reception:
Saturday, April 25
6 p.m.

Gutstein Gallery
Savannah, GA
201 E. Broughton St.

The Savannah College of Art and Design photography department presents "Silver & Ink," the university’s premier juried photography exhibition and publication, showcasing the best student work.

Held annually and in its eighth year, this exhibition celebrates all aspects of commercial and fine art photography created at SCAD.
Gallery hours:

• Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
• Sunday, closed

The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
Read more about “Silver & Ink.” Learn about exhibitions and events at the SCAD Museum of Art.

Leif Carlson: Semblance show at Darkroom Gallery

Leif Carlson will be exhibiting at the Semblance show, juried by David Carol.
EXHIBIT OPENS ON April 23rd, 2015 at The Darkroom Gallery in Essex, Vermont
Artists' Reception scheduled for May 17th, 2015

I am currently in my second year of the MFA program.  My wife and I are originally from Franklin, Indiana.  Since moving to Savannah in 2013, our son Felix was born (August 2014), and I'm thrilled that my schedule is allowing me so much time with him.  The photo that was selected (Toy Soldier 2) is part of a larger series I am still working on.  I have been documenting boys who participate in war-games and the environments created to simulate battle. 

Savannah Campus Graduate Student Teaching Opportunity

Click the tab above for more information on a new pilot program that will enable graduate students to gain experience and earn pay for teaching extended learning workshops.

Listen to Emily Jones and Beven Valentine Jalbert Savannah PBS Thursday morning

Bevin Valentine Jalbert (M.F.A., photography, 2009) founder of Paprika Southern speaks to Emily Jones on PBS Savannah Thursday morning. Be sure to catch the insightful interview.

Alumnus success: An Le, owner of An Le Studio

"[SCAD] gave me the opportunity to do everything I wanted — to do my internship, to take classes and finish up school — and then I also had time to do my own photoshoots on the weekends."
An Le | Owner of An Le Studio

Beauty and Darkness inspire me
info@anlestudio.com   /   an - anle@anlestudio.com   /  1st assistant:  james sakalian III  -  james@anlestudio.com
Publications: Vogue.it, Numero Russia, Vogue Hombre Latin America, Dazed & Confused Korea, Harper's Bazaar Latin America, Elle Vietnam, L'Officiel Ukraine, L'Officiel Singapore, Flaunt, Tush, and more.
Commercial clients: Bottega Veneta, Judith Leiber, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Christian Siriano, Badgley & Mischka, Sassoon, etc.; and celebrity such as Naomi Campbell, Olivia Palermo, John Legend, Rebecca Hall, Natalia Kills, Coco Rocha, and more.
New York  -  Los Angeles  -  Paris

Social selfie: self-promote

Social selfie: How to self-promote your brand through visual media

The dos and don’ts of self-promotion are more and more unclear in a society obsessed with and bombarded by social media. Fashion designer Melissa Coker of Wren, along with videographer Meagan Cignoli and jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher, will discuss how to effectively communicate through media outlets — both traditional and new — without sacrificing the quality and message of a brand.
Presented in conjunction with SCADstyle, this event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, April 15
2:30 p.m.

SCAD Museum of Art, Theater
Savannah, GA
601 Turner Blvd.

Meagan Cignoli Videographer

Over the last two years, Meagan Cignoli has helped pioneer a new industry within social media and advertising, setting the standard for short-form, branded videos.
Since 2013, Cignoli has produced Vine, Instagram and high-resolution video campaigns for more than 150 brands, including Nike, YSL, General Electric, Clinique, HBO and Disney. Her work has been featured in many major publications including Time, Wired, Glamour, Vogue, Ad Age, Fast Company, The New York Times, Forbes and Wired. Her material has also aired and on CBS and FOX.
Cignoli’s work in the video advertising space has earned her a Cannes Cyber Lion award, and she has been awarded more than a dozen other major advertising awards.

 

 

B&W Technique

This week the B&W Technique Class discussed negative interpretation and print size

multiple calls for entry.

(This gallery represents all photographic mediums, not just darkroom work)



http://www.darkroomgallery.com/ 

The Darkroom Gallery is dedicated to photographers and photography. We host juried photography exhibits, classes, seminars and workshops providing opportunities for photographers from around the world to have their work evaluated by a qualified juror for display in our Vermont gallery, on our web site and published in exhibit catalogs with minimum expense or hassle.  Read more...

Black & White

CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE April 15th, 2015 Midnight EST Juror: Chris Kovacs 

©Chris Kovacs

Black & white photography is a timeless art; always relevant, always contemporary despite being historically ancient. 
Read more: Black & White

- See more at: http://www.darkroomgallery.com/index.php/exhibits/upcomingexhibits#sthash.Hj0mIrvZ.dpuf

Black & White

CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE April 15th, 2015 Midnight EST Juror: Chris Kovacs 

©Chris Kovacs

Black & white photography is a timeless art; always relevant, always contemporary despite being historically ancient. 
Read more: Black & White

- See more at: http://www.darkroomgallery.com/index.php/exhibits/upcomingexhibits#sthash.Hj0mIrvZ.dpuf

Black & White

CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE April 15th, 2015 Midnight EST Juror: Chris Kovacs 

Black & white photography is a timeless art; always relevant, always contemporary despite being historically ancient. 

Photographer Robert Frank states,

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Darkroom Gallery is calling for works that excel within these monochromatic constraints.  The absence of color adds a sort of purity to images, shows the bones of a composition without the chaff. It allows for the photographer top get creative within a variance of grays, whites, blacks and sepias - abstraction is bred within restraint.  

 

Whether you are a darkroom purist or a Photoshop guru, show us your love for hue-less images.  We want to see your best black and white or alternative process photographs. Pay tribute to the origins of photography.

Natural Realm

CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE May 13th, 2015 Midnight EST Juror: Dan Burkholder

Wild, wild wilderness, it's grandeur and grace epically and intimately explored through photography.
Humans have always looked upon the beauty, majesty, and ingenuity of the world around them with reverent wonder. The regular rhythms of the sun and moon, the myriads of living creatures in all their splendid diversity, the magnificence of a flower, a butterfly’s wings or a snow crystal –  The ancient Greeks aptly called the universe kosmos, a word denoting order and harmony. This underlying order is reflected in many intriguing patterns in nature.
 Many of nature’s patterns are related to the golden section and the Fibonacci numbers. For instance, the golden spiral is a logarithmic or equiangular spiral – a type of spiral found in unicellular foraminifera, sunflowers, seashells, animal horns and tusks, beaks and claws, whirlpools, hurricanes, and spiral galaxies. 
Darkroom Gallery is calling for photography that investigates this intrinsic magic in the natural world. From macro shots to large scale landscapes show us your examples of this otherworldly complexity within our natural realm.

Black & White

CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE April 15th, 2015 Midnight EST Juror: Chris Kovacs 

©Chris Kovacs

Black & white photography is a timeless art; always relevant, always contemporary despite being historically ancient. 
Read more: Black & White

- See more at: http://www.darkroomgallery.com/index.php/exhibits/upcomingexhibits#sthash.Hj0mIrvZ.dpuf

Silver and Ink Portfolio Review Sign up

Portfolio Review Sign Up Instructions

Please ask your faculty for guidance for preparation.

Greer Muldowney (M.F.A., photography, 2010) SCAD alumna at Atlanta Celebrates Photography portfolio reviews and portfolio walk through.

Internship opportunity

Call for Photographs SHOTS

CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
Submissions due May 4, 2015

SHOTS Magazine announces an international call for photographic work to be considered for publication in the Summer 2015 issue (no. 127). There is NO THEME for this issue, subject matter is OPEN. Please visit the SHOTS website for further information and guidelines.

A well-established, independent, quarterly photography journal now in its 29th year of publication, SHOTS Magazine reaches an international community of photographers, educators, galleries, museums, collectors and other fine art photography enthusiasts.

Submissions are accepted online or by mail (prints or CD).

SHOTS no. 127, Spring 2015
Click the cover for more information and  sample images from the current issue.

CURRENT ISSUE: DreamsSHOTS no. 127 | Spring 2015

The Spring Issue features work by nearly 40 international photographers with their captivating and otherworldly interpretations of the theme DREAMS. Also included are interviews with two compelling artists: Veru Iché and Agnieszka Sosnowska.

Full of images, inspiration, and ideas, you won't want to miss this issue! Single copies and subscriptions beginning with this issue are available while supplies last.

Cover photo by Susan Friedman
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To renew or begin a new subscription beginning with the current issue, please visit the SHOTS website for information. Back issues and t-shirts are also available while supplies last.

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Thank you, as always,  for supporting the reader-supported and independent publication of photography!

Best regards,

Russell Joslin
Editor & Publisher