Tuesday, March 23, 2010
MUST SEE LECTURE
Free an open to the public. Hosted by the Photography Department and Career Services.
Mary Virginia Swanson makes it her goal to help guide photographers towards the strengths in their work and to identify appreciative audiences for their prints, exhibitions, editorial and licensing placement. Swanson is considered an expert in the area of marketing and licensing fine art. Swanson currently works with photographers as a marketing consultant, and is a sought-after portfolio reviewer at events such as Review Santa Fe, Review LA, FotoFest, Photo Nola and PhotoLucida, among others. She also consults with business and agencies in our industry, assisting in their awareness of contemporary photography. www.mvswanson.com
Monday, March 22, 2010
PhotoGroup Meeting Tuesday March 30th
Call for Entries - "The Lens Based Image" by Desotorow
Eligibility: This juried exhibition is open to national and international artists (professional, emerging, and student).
Media/Genre: Open to works of all genres and media.
Guest Curator : Meryl Truett
Guest Curator Biography: Meryl Truett is a fine art and editorial photographer whose work is exhibited and collected nationwide. She graduated in 2003 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design with additional art training in France. She has received numerous awards including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. She was named one of Five Artists to Collect by the Savannah Morning News in 2007. Her work is in the permanent collections of Telfair Museum of Art/Jepson Center for the Arts, Vanderbilt University, the Morris Museum of Art and Savannah College of Art and Design.
Among the many publications featuring her photographs are: Art Papers, Darkroom Magazine, Petersen's Photographic, Camera Austria, Nashville Scene, Nashville Life, The Vanderbilt Review, Connect Savannah, Savannah Magazine, deep magazine, Skirt!, Atlanta Journal Constitution and Creative Loafing. A second printing of Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, a book of fine art photographs depicting the quirkier side of southern living was released last year.
Entry Fee: You may submit up to three pieces for a non-refundable entry fee of $15. The entry fee may be paid online or with cash, check, or money order (checks and money orders should be made payable to DESOTOROW GALLERY).
Deadlines:
March 26 - Submissions Due by 5pm EST
March 29 - Notifications Emailed
April 7 - Accepted Work Due to Gallery
April 9 - Opening Reception
April 21 - Exhibition Closes
April 23 - Return of Work Begins (Pick-up/Ship)
May 7 - Deadline for the Pick-Up of Work
Call for Entries - "Redux" by Desotorow
Eligibility: This juried exhibition is open to national and international artists (professional, emerging, and student).
Media/Genre: Open to works of all genres and media.
Entry Fee: You may submit up to three pieces for a non-refundable entry fee of $15. The entry fee may be paid online or with cash, check, or money order (checks and money orders should be made payable to DESOTOROW GALLERY).
Deadlines:
March 26 - Submissions Due by 5pm EST
March 29 - Notifications Emailed
April 19 - Accepted Work Due to Gallery
April 23 - Opening Reception
April 28 - Exhibition Closes
April 30 - Return of Work Begins (Pick-up/Ship)
May 14 - Deadline for the Pick-Up of Work
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Call for Entries
JUROR: James Casebere
DEADLINE: April 19, 2010 (postmark date)
The Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is pleased to announce an open call for applications for its Annual National Photography Competition. Photographers and photo–based artists working in any genre are eligible to apply. Applicants are encouraged to submit a cohesive body of work.
Selected applicants will be featured in an exhibition at the CCNY gallery in the summer of 2010 and also on the CCNY website. The first place selection will receive a $500.00 cash award
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
SPD Call for Entries

• Nikon D300S camera and Nikkor 18-55mm lens. Valued at $2,155
• Barnstorm XXII, The Eddie Adams Workshop. Guaranteed placement & housing at the 4 day rigorous workshop with the best in photojournalism today. October 8-11, 2010.
• Adobe CS4 Design Premium. Fully loaded. Valued at $1,800
• A one year subscription to Aperture, American Photo, and Photo District News.
Second Prize
• Portfolio review with Stephen Mayes, Managing Director at VII Photo Agency.
• Adobe CS4 Design Standard. For the Pros. Valued at $1,400
• A one year subscription to Aperture, American Photo, and Photo District News.
Third Prize
• Summer Internship at Magnum Photos.
• Adobe CS4 Design Standard. For the Pros. Valued at $1,400
• A one year subscription to Aperture, American Photo, and Photo District News.
It's all just a few clicks away! Fame, glory, software, hardware and more!
District Quarterly Calls for Entry

District Quarterly magazine call for entries
District Quarterly is currently seeking submissions for the spring issue. District Quarterly is a new, award-winning, student-produced magazine published through the Student Media Center at SCAD. The magazine features original work by SCAD students, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, sequential art, illustration, painting, photography and more. The different works are combined by subject and theme to create a cohesive publication fall, winter and spring quarters each year.
The theme for the spring issue is materialism, and the deadline for submissions is Friday, March 26. Any current student at SCAD, undergrad or grad, may submit their work to be considered for publication in the magazine. The spring issue of District Quarterly is scheduled to launch near the end of April.
Submissions for the materialism-themed issue may be e-mailed to quarterly@scaddistrict.com by March 26.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Call for Entries - Propaganda! by Desotorow Gallery
Is it a government tool, a war devise, a marketing strategy? Negative, positive or brilliant, propaganda is ever present and ill defined as a tool in our visual culture. We invite artists from all mediums to help us explore what this term means. In celebration or critique, please enter work that you feel enters into the realm of propaganda.
Eligibility: This juried exhibition is open to national and international artists (professional, emerging, and student).
Media/Genre: Open to works of all genres and media.
Entry Fee: You may submit up to three pieces for a non-refundable entry fee of $15. The entry fee may be paid online or with cash, check, or money order (checks and money orders should be made payable to DESOTOROW GALLERY).
Deadlines:
| March 12 | Submissions Due by 5pm EST |
| March 15 | Notifications Emailed |
| March 24 | Accepted Work Due to Gallery |
| March 26 | Opening Reception |
| March 31 | Exhibition Closes |
| April 2 | Return of Work Begins (Pick-up/Ship) |
| April 16 | Deadline for the Pick-Up of Work |
View complete information at http://www.desotorow.org/exhibits/calls/propaganda.html.


