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May 19th, Atlanta: Talk with William Boling and Michael David Murphy of Fall Line Press
Fall Line Press | Westside Arts District
Talk with William Boling and Michael David Murphy
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 12:30 pm
From Fall Line’s newsletter: “As part of the Westside Arts District Art Walk this weekend, Publisher William Boling and Editor Michael Daivd Murphy of Fall Line will speak at 12:30. As we approach our one year anniversary, we’ve come a long way and have more, exciting ventures in store. William and Michael will discuss our current publications, reading room and bookstore, and our upcoming new releases including Bottom of da Boot by photographer Kael Alford.”
Fall Line Press
1000 Marietta Street, Ste 112
Atlanta, Georgia [map]
May 10th, Philadelphia: Artist Talk & Book Signing by Lydia Panas
- © 2012 Lydia Panas
The Print Center
Artist Talk and Book Signing by Lydia Panas
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“Photographer Lydia Panas will discuss her artwork, sign her newly published book The Mark of Abel and talk about her successful approach to sharing her work. The Kutztown, PA resident’s career has centered on creating evocative color portraits of friends and families which offer the viewer incisive character studies revealed through gaze and body language.
RSVP is not required, but preferred: evandenberg [at] printcenter.org or 215-735-6090 x1.”
The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 [map]
215 735.6090
May 2nd, Boston: Artist Talk by Shelby Lee Adams
Photographic Resource Center 
Artist Talk by Shelby Lee Adams: Salt & Truth
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Registration: $10 general | $5 members | free for BU community & PRC member institutions
“Shelby Lee Adams will discuss his new book, Salt & Truth, published by Candela Books in October and featured in The New York Times Sunday Review in November 2011. The book is a compilation of black and white photographs predominately made over the last eight years, including ten previously unpublished images that represent an overview of the entire 36 years Adams has continued working within his native community in Eastern Kentucky. His slide presentation will include informal photos made with his friends and subjects as well as quotes and observations made by his people to share with and inform the viewer of his process and the collaborative nature of his work.”
BU College of General Studies, Room 511
871 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts [map]
“The Red Sox will be in town that evening. Plan accordingly. The lot adjacent to the PRC, and one block from the auditorium, is open to the public for $10. Nearby on-street parking in Brookline may be available.”
April 27th, Toronto: Contact Photography Festival Launch Party & Exhibition
Contact Photography Festival
Festival Launch Party: Friday, April 27, 2012, 7:00-10:00 pm
Contact Photography Festival launches tonight with a party and reception for the festival’s primary exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
Next week will have many more openings throughout Toronto and through the month of May there will be photography related events and workshops. To see what’s coming up, check out their calendar.
MOCCA
952 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 1G8, Canada
Public Information Line: (416) 395-0067
April 28th, Deltona, FL: Gallery Talk with Beate Sass
- © 2012 Beate Sass
Southeast Museum of Photography
Gallery Talk with Beate Sass: Tall Timbers Plantation Project
Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm
In this talk, “Beate Sass will be discussing her photographic and oral history project entitled Tall Timbers Plantation. This project is about the former tenant farmers that lived on Tall Timbers Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida from the early to mid-1900’s and honors the important role their families played in the survival of the plantations after the emancipation. This photographic project includes the portraits and accompanying oral histories of the former tenant farmers as well as photographs created at the restored Jones Family Tenant House and the Beadel House, the plantation house, at Tall Timbers.
Accompanying Beate in her talk will be Juanita Whiddon, the archivist from Tall Timbers Research and Land Conservancy (formally Tall Timbers Plantation). Juanita was instrumental in acquiring funds and overseeing the restoration of the historic structures on Tall Timbers and has dedicated herself to documenting the history of this fascinating place.”
This talk is being presented in conjunction with Beate Sass’ exhibition Tall Timbers Plantation Project on view until August 12, 2012 at the:
Lyonia Environmental Center, Lyonia Gallery
2150 Eustace Avenue
Deltona, Florida
April 19th, Tucson: Curator’s Talk with Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
Center for Creative Photography
Curator’s Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 5:30
Free and open to the public.
“Claudia Bohn-Spector will discuss the current CCP exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976, that she co-curated with Sam Mellon. Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent scholar and curator in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Munich, Germany. A specialist in American art and culture, she has curated numerous fine art exhibitions, including a critically acclaimed survey of Los Angeles photography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, entitled This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs. With Sam Mellon, she is currently working on a book-length study entitled WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to 1975, for publication in 2013.”
This lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heineken, 1961-1976. It will be on view until June 17, 2012.
Center for Creative Photography, CCP Auditorium
The University of Arizona
1030 North Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0103 [map]
April 12th, Akron: Artist Talk by Bea Nettles
- © 2012 Bea Nettles
Akron Museum of Art
Artist Talk by Bea Nettles
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public: Reservations required.
Book signing at 6:00 pm
“The photographs of Bea Nettles often depict the artist’s intimate family life, yet they also speak to the broad ideas of what it means to be a mother, teacher and artist, which she describes as her greatest roles. The focus of this exhibition, a survey of the museum’s collection of Nettles’ photographs, is the artist’s use of autobiographical imagery, animated by her experimental processes.
Many of her images contain metaphoric views of domesticity and motherhood. This poetic approach is apparent throughout her career with the inclusion of text in images, inventive bookmaking and self-publishing. The museum’s collection also contains works made from Polaroids, etchings and digital and dye transfer prints, all of which are gifts of the artist.”
This talk is being presented in conjunction with her exhibition, String of Hearts: Photographs by Bea Nettles, on view until July 22, 2012.
Akron Art Museum
1 South High
Akron, Ohio 44308 [map]
April 10th, San Francisco: Artist Talk by LaToya Ruby Frazier
© 2012 LaToya Ruby Frazier
Pier 24 | California College of the Arts | SFMOMA
Artist Talk by LaToya Ruby Frazier
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“LaToya Ruby Frazier‘s photography and video work employs such themes as the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and human complexity. Frazier’s nine-year artistic collaboration with her family has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Village Voice.”
California College of the Arts, San Francisco Campus
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, California 94107
April 12th, Los Angeles: Artist Talk by Julie Blackmon “The Power of Now and Other Tales From Home”
- © 2012 Julie Blackmon
Annenberg Space for Photography, Iris Nights Lecture Series
Artist Talk by Julie Blackmon
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6:30-8:00 pm
Free and open to the public; tickets are required. Online registration for this event begins Wednesday, April 4 at 12pm PT and Thursday, April 5 at 9:30am PT.
“The oldest of nine children and now a mother of three, photographer Julie Blackmon binds her past to her present with a portrait of domesticity depicting a compound of anxiety, ambivalence, and amusement.
In this lecture, Blackmon will discuss her start as a photographer, her process, influences and the source of her inspiration.”
The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 10
Los Angeles, California 90067 [map]
April 10th, Cambridge: Artist Talk by Todd Hido
Harvard Art Museums
Artist Talk by Todd Hido
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“Todd Hido, in conversation with Sharon Harper, Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Todd Hido makes night photographs of suburban neighborhoods, using long exposures to capture the effects of fog, and light from streetlamps and windows. Hido’s project relates closely to Feininger’s atmospheric night photographs of the Bauhaus building and the surrounding neighborhood.”
Harvard Art Museums
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138