The Tracey Baran Award was established to honor the memory and achievement of Tracey Baran, a young photographer who died after a short illness in 2008. This annual award, with a fellowship grant of $5000, will be given to one emerging female photographer who is a citizen of the United States.

Application Deadline: September 1st, 2010

Entry Fee: None

Eligibility: The contest is open to all emerging female photographers who are citizens of the United States. Emerging is defined as not having had a major solo show in a commercial gallery or museum, gallery representation or an advertising campaign.

Contact: info@traceybaranaward.org

You can get more info at the website.

Rena Kosnett will be screening Classic/Cut as part of the CalArts MFA Art School Video Showcase at REDCAT in Downtown L.A. tonight. The screening is at 8pm and admission is free.

CalArts 2010 MFA Video Showcase
REDCAT Theater, Downtown Los Angeles, July 15th, 8pm

In conjunction with Box Scheme, the CalArts 2010 MFA Exhibition in Chinatown, a screening of video works by 13 CalArts MFAs will be held at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown LA. The event takes place July 15th at 8 PM and has a running time of 2 1/2 hours including intermission. The screening promises to further showcase the breadth of experimental forms and critically reflexive expression in the CalArts graduate Art and Photo/Media programs.
Participating artists include Carrie Rebecca Armellino, Bjarki Bragason, Kelly Cline, Travis Diehl, Vivian Joyner, Karolina Karlic, Zach Kleyn, Keith Rocka Knittel, Rena Kosnett, Sage Paisner, Carl Pomposelli, Rasmus Røhling and Arnoldo Vargas.
Redcat is located at 631 West 2nd St. in downtown Los Angeles, at the base of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. Admission to the screening is free. For directions and parking information, please visit http://www.redcat.org/. For more information regarding the showcase, please contact Rena Kosnett, (323) 369-6106, renakosnett@gmail.com, or Keith Rocka Knittel, (323) 717-3571, kk@keithrocka.com.
CalArts has a multidisciplinary approach to its studies of the arts through six schools: Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater. CalArts encourages students to explore and recognize the complexity of the many aspects of the arts. It is supported by a distinguished faculty of practicing artists and provides its BFA and MFA students with the hands-on training and exposure necessary for an artist’s growth. CalArts was founded in 1961 and opened in 1969 as the first institution of higher learning in the United States specifically for students interested in the pursuit of degrees in all areas of visual and performing arts.

Solaroid #7, 2009 (detail)

Pigment inkjet print  11” x 14” inches, unframed Edition of 10, produced for CANAL FEATURE $120.00

About the process: ”Solaroids” are unique prints, produced using large format Fuji instant film, which undergo long exposures of direct UV light.  Prints are drum scanned and printed as archival digital chromogenic prints with white margins. -Jeff McLane

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Thank you to everyone who has followed our blog to this point, come to our shows, and supported us in so many ways. We can’t thank you enough. Please continue to check-in and stay tuned for information on upcoming projects from collective members.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or opportunities that you think any of our members may be interested in.

Sincerely,
From Here to There

A young mother with her baby.  She is wearing a taffeta head scarf, called karton, because it is held up by a piece of cardboard.  She also has a collection of gold rings called “waterfalls” (dyi suuru) on her right braid and a loose dress called “my co-wife’s dark, jealous eye” (n’sina-muso-nye-dyugu).

(Image source: Seydou Keita, Andre Magnin, Amazon + Library)

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