University of Wisconsin-Madison Photography Courses 2008

Kentucky Yard Sale Yields a Trove of Weegee Images

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/arts/design/03muse.html?ex=1213070400&en=279744ae5e44c566&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio and the Art of the Circus at the Chazen Museum of Art, April 19–June 29, 2008

“Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio,” Artist talk. Friday, May 9, 6 p.m., rm. L140
Free admission
Before the gala begins, Judy Onofrio will speak about her dramatic sculptures, which create a fantasy world of transformative and exciting stories. The wonder and spectacle of the circus have fed her imagination since childhood, and the arts of circus promotion have inspired her artwork. Onofrio will discuss these sources as well as many of the sculptures in the exhibition.
Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio and the Art of the Circus. Judy Onofrio’s life-sized sculptures of extraordinary performers, animals, and circus acts will be exhibited alongside examples of banners, posters, and carvings—drawn from the Circus World Museum collection—that have inspired her work. Onofrio’s glittering constructions are carved, molded, painted, and assembled from wood, fiberglass, beads, ceramic shards, and collected objects. With Onofrio as ringmaster, these materials take form as contortionists, acrobats, and magicians of yesteryear who once again twist, soar, and cast spells for audiences. In addition, a documentary of the 1920s and 30s Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and a filmed interview with artist Judy Onofrio will be available in the Ringmaster exhibition.

Harry A. Atwell, Circus Photographer April 19 to June 29, 2008 | Mayer Gallery Chazen Museum of Art

Harry A. Atwell, Circus Photographer. Forty-two black-and-white photographs by Harry A. Atwell (1879–1957) survey his significant career photographing the golden age of America’s tented shows. Atwell, a prominent Chicago publicity photographer, was hired for his first circus assignment around 1910 to travel with the Ringling Bros. Circus. Over the next forty years he amassed more than 5,000 negatives, now in the collection of Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Atwell’s images of roustabouts, Big Top crowds, sideshow performers, and center-ring stars capture “Circus Day,” when shops, schools, and factories shut their doors so that all could enjoy the fleeting pageantry of the traveling shows.

“Circus, Circus: Repeat Performance in the History of Photography” Tuesday, April 22, 7 p.m., rm. L140, Chazen

Lecture by Jill H. Casid, associate professor of art history and director of the Visual Culture Center, UW–Madison
Professor Casid will discuss Harry Atwell’s work, other photographers’ obsessions with circus subjects, and performance (as opposed to documentation) as part of photographic practice from its nineteenth-century origins through the present. Chazen Museum of Art

Scholarship to Attend Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine.

The UW Arts Faculty raised funds that established a dedicated Fund at Haystack which provides one scholarship for a UW student to attend a two week workshop at Haystack School each summer.

Typical courses include ceramics, wood, glass, fibers, metal, drawing, paper, printmaking, artist's books and mixed media.

The Scholarship pays for tuition, room and board for a 2-week workshop. You are responsible only for getting yourself there and back.

In order to apply for the Haystack scholarship you will need to submit the following to Teri Van Genderen in an envelope marked Haystack:

1) 8 JPEGs of your work on a CD/DVD (labeled with your name, medium used, dimensions.)
2) A separate image information sheet with the same information
3) First and second choice of workshop
4) A cover letter that explains your choices of workshop and why the workshops fit your specific creative directions
5) Resume

The deadline for the materials is Monday March 10th 4pm to the Art Office Front Desk.

http://www.haystack-mtn.org/

PS: This is the only scholarship that is specifically for UW Students however, you can also apply directly to Haystack for work/study scholarships. They offer quite a few scholarships every summer.

$1000 MFA Scholarship through Hotel Donaldson

The Hotel Donaldson dedicates one of their rooms to a student in a MFA program to show their work for a year along with a $1000 scholarship. If you have images of your work that we can review, please send them to:

The Hotel Donaldson
c/o Alison
1o1 Broadway
Fargo, ND 48104

http://www.hoteldonaldson.com/main.html

Saatchi Gallery looking for online student community involvement

Dear Tom

I have recently been reviewing our website www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk and it caught my attention that very few students from University of Wisconsin - Madison have joined our online student art community STUART http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/

As we continue to develop new and exciting opportunities for the artists on the site we are also hoping to ensure that students of the highest calibre are fully aware of the site and the resources it has to offer them.

We hope it provides a suitable platform for students to present their portfolio to a global audience, gathering ideas and inspiration through discussion with their peers and through the presentation of over 40,000 professional artists’ portfolios that are currently featured on the site.

I wish to highlight to yourself and your colleagues three of the more interesting sections of the site which may prove particularly useful, this includes the essays section, the crits section and the Magazine which features up to date news about exhibitions from around the world.

We recently had our first major STUART exhibition in the UK featuring the winners of our 4 New Sensations competition set up for graduating artists in conjunction with the broadcaster Channel 4. From the 20 finalists 2 Graduates’ work was acquired by the Zabludowicz Collection and many of the other students sold work to private collectors and were invited to participate in Solo and group exhibitions at professional galleries including the Alexia Goethe Gallery, Primo Alonso gallery and the Royal Scottish Academy.

We also took a selection of Saatchi Online and STUART artists to the Zoo Art fair in London providing the opportunity for the artists to sell their work commission free at this prestigious event which runs alongside the Frieze art Fair. Our aim for the next year is to continue to give our student artists similar opportunities internationally.

I wanted to double check that you received information about the site previously and ask whether you had any feedback about the site from colleagues or your students about ways to improve the site to make it a more effective learning tool. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the project

Kind regards, Phoebe

Saatchi Gallery London
PhoebeBeloe@saatchigallery.com

Tyler Robbins in Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at the Walker Art Museum

The exhibit opens February 16th-August 17th
http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4048
Here is a link to his video short that will be featured during the exhibition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh18EKGBop8

Art Department Digital Print Lab Hours

Heather White Schedule-Sign up for your appointment on the door
Wednesday 4 pm-8 pm
Thursday 10 am-4 pm

Dennis Peterson by appointment only email dpeterson@gmail.com
Mondays 9 am-1 pm

Articles and Books

Syllabus 376 Heather Solomon

Download 376_sec_2_spring_2008.doc

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

Syllabus 476 & 576

Download 476576_spring_2008.doc

Syllabus 376 Tom Jones

Download 376_spring_2008.doc

Undergraduate Reviews of Exhibitions and Lectures

This post is to be used by undergraduate students for reviews of exhibitions and lectures.

Graduate Reviews of Exhibitions.

This post is to be used by graduate students for reviews of exhibitions.

Ed Ruscha and Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, March 1–June 1, 2008

http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/future.php
Since the beginning of Ed Ruscha's career in the late 1950s, photography has been both an inspiration and a source of discovery for this seminal Pop and conceptual artist. This exhibition, on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, presents his signature photographic books as well as approximately 115 original photographic prints, many of which have never before been seen or published. Displayed alongside the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of Ruscha paintings, drawings, and prints, Ed Ruscha and Photography will create a powerful dialogue across mediums about the motifs and stylistic treatments that the artist first explored through photography.

Gilbert & George, Milwaukee Art Museum, June 14 - September 1, 2008

Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore, two sculptors who met in college, have been creating work for the last forty years that, according to TimeOut London, "tap into public opinion at just the right time." Confronting the punk anger and racial tensions of the '70s to consumer capitalism in the '80s to the terrorism fears of today, the artists' brightly colored photomontages, though comprised of images gathered within walking distance of the artists' home on London's East Side, are raw examinations of human experience.

NOTHING LIKE THE SON, ON ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE'S X PORTFOLIO, by Dave Hickey

If you have problems with Robert Mapplethorpes images do not go here.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/pkane/ART242X/beauty/Lou.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/pkane/ART242X/beauty/son.html&h=217&w=214&sz=48&tbnid=cMvaEftX17qFNM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drobert%2Bmapplethorpe%26um%3D1&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1

Information on how to use your flash strobes

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02/welcome-to-strobist.html

MATERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANTHONY PEARSON

http://www.shanecampbellgallery.com/exhibitions/material-photographs/essay.html

Review: Affordable digital SLR cameras By David Pogue

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/technology/ptpogue21-web.php

Free Web Design Tutorials

http://www.w3schools.com/

Software Training for Students

These are free computer training classes offered to registered UW-Madison students through Doit and the CIMC. Take advantage of these while you are here and build up your resume.http://www.doit.wisc.edu/training/student/ http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/help_instruction/workshops/index.html

Photography Exchange

Photography Exchange including New Jersey City University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University at Buffalo, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison, and Western Michigan University. Please join in on the web based dialogue and make comments on each others work.http://photographyexchange.wordpress.com/

Student Photographic Society

http://www.studentphoto.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

Photography Composition Articles

http://photoinf.com/General/

Camera Phones Lend Immediacy to Images of Disaster

By Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A16
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070701522.html

University of Texas-Austin students make the first-ever bacterial photograph on a lawn of E.coli bacteria

http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/bacteria/

New York TImes article on Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The right to photographing on the street unheld in courts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/arts/design/19phot.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

PHOTO STAMPS

Create a postage stamp you can use with your own photograph on it.  http://photo.stamps.com/PhotoStamps/?_requestid=360386

Regarding the Torture of Others by Susan Sontag

Download regarding_the_torture_of_others_by_susan_sontag.htm

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, by Walter Benjamin

This reading is for the advanced class, due November 7.Download the_work_of_art_in_the_age_of_mechanical_reproduction.doc

Diane Arbus

"Don't look Back" by John HaberDownload habers_art_reviews_diane_arbus.htm

Post your website here.

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Post your own exhibitions here

Are you currently in a show? Let us know where it is at. Post the date and place in the comments, along with a website if there is one.

Artists Websites

If you come across an artists website you like and want to share with the others please post it here.

Exhibition Opportunities

When ever you come across an exhibition opportunity please post.  Everyone must contribute to this list.