5-week course on FOTOFOCUS
Miami University Institute for Learning in Retirement, Miami University, Leonard Theater, Peabody Hall, Oxford, OH 45056
Tuesdays 2:45 pm–4 pm
October 9–November 6
This class looks at some of the FOTOFOCUS viewing opportunities, with specific emphasis on New Visions, an exhibition of digital imagery created by established and emerging artists at Passages Gallery in North College Hill. The lecture discussion is designed as a preparation for viewing some of the exhibitions and as a forum for meeting some of the artists and curators.
Coordinator: Edna C. Southard, Curator Emerita of Collections and Exhibitions at the Miami University Art Museum, is the guest curator for a FOTOFCUS exhibition. She organized numerous innovative exhibitions of photography, cared for and expanded Miami’s photography collection, wrote about photography, and has followed trends in this medium for decades.
The Institute for Learning in Retirement at Miami University promotes opportunities for individuals 50 and older to enrich their lives as they explore areas within science, the arts, society, technology, literature, languages, business, economics, and other subjects of interest. In addition, opportunities are presented to become acquainted with community needs and to link individual talents and interests to those needs.
Midwest Society of Photographic Education Regional Conference · October 11– October 13
Continuum: Education and Photography
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Hilton Netherlands Plaza Hotel, 35 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, OH
https://midwest.spenational.org/ "Continuum: Education and Photography" Hosted by The Art Academy of Cincinnati, the 2012 meeting of the Midwest Society of Educators brings over 500 photography students and educators to Greater Cincinnati. The conference offers sessions of artist talks, panels, lectures and workshops. To celebrate the 50th year of SPE, the conference honors the past, present and future of image-making. Conference session topics and exhibitions cover many decades and genres of photography. Conference runs through October 13.
Summer 2012 Videography Camps
Miami Voice of America Learning Center
Media Bridges currently offers videography camps for students, ages 8-18, at their Over the Rhine location. Videography camps allow children to gain media and digital literacy, while building confidence in their creative abilities as they watch their creations take shape. The collaboration with the VOALC brought Media Bridges programming to Butler County for the first time. Two camps were offered in each of two weeks, with a total of 60 students participating. http://www.flickr.com/photos/36031461@N05/sets/72157630571220588/show/
The Voice of America Learning Center (VOALC), established in 2009, strives to extend its public service and educational programming and to develop new programs reaching underserved sectors of the population in the area. From its inception, the VOALC, with the support of its active community-based volunteer board, has been a community resource for arts programs, including rotating art exhibitions, a film series on cinema comedy classics, and a Rookwood Pottery exhibition, among many others. The VOALC’s art presence is a complement to the university-wide “Year of the Arts” designation for 2011-2012. The “Year of the Arts” celebrates the long history, present dynamism, and exciting future of the arts at Miami through a diverse array of special presentations and signature events.
Pinhole Camera Workshop
Workshop
Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 11:00am - 3:00pm
Visionaries & Voices, 3841 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati OH 45223, (513) 426-4572
http://www.visionariesandvoices.com/content/vv-home
Community members are welcome to visit the V+V Northside Studio to build, "load," and "shoot" with their own homemade pinhole cameras, and then develop the photos. Participants should bring a brown bag lunch; V+V provides drinks.
Established in 2003, V+V is a nonprofit organization providing artistic, cultural, and professional opportunities for artists with disabilities. V+V currently serves more than 140 artists in the greater Cincinnati area and has collaborated with more than 45 arts agencies, nonprofits, schools, and businesses, including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Contemporary Arts Center, and Cincinnati Museum Center. V+V creates a world in which artists with disabilities not only produce and share works of art, but also are given continuous opportunities to learn, develop professionally, collaborate, exhibit, and celebrate with community
Carrie Iverson
Workshop · Image Transfer for Kiln Glass
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
gallery One One at Brazee Street Studios, 4426 Brazee Street, Cincinnati, OH 45209
Imagemakers! Explore printmaking methods for transferring images from photographic laser prints onto glass in this one-of-a-kind workshop. Visiting instructor and FOTOFOCUS exhibiting artist Carrie Iverson teaches students how to implement her unique image transfer technology and guides them as they execute several pieces.
Carrie Iverson
Workshop · Image Transfer for Kiln Glass
Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
gallery One One at Brazee Street Studios, 4426 Brazee Street, Cincinnati, OH 45209
Imagemakers! Explore printmaking methods for transferring images from photographic laser prints onto glass in this one-of-a-kind workshop. Visiting instructor and FOTOFOCUS exhibiting artist Carrie Iverson teaches students how to implement her unique image transfer technology and guides them as they execute several pieces.