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Negaunee High School students reveal Art in the Park Project
NEGAUNEE, Mich. (WLUC) – Negaunee’s Jackson Mine Park has just received a splash of color.
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the Art in the Park Project. Nine Negaunee Highs School students submitted art pieces relating to Negaunee or the U.P.
Elizabeth Gleason is one of those artists. She said her artwork is trying to draw attention to the Native heritage in the U.P.
“We’re not full but we are part Indigenous,” Gleason said. “So, I think it’s very important to share that kind of culture that a lot of people have up here, especially because it’s not recognized a lot and I just love to do that.”
Gleason said this is an opportunity for students to make a name for themselves.
“More often than not, art is kind of overlooked and seen as just an ‘extra thing,’” Gleason said. “It’s really cool to be recognized, especially as a high school student, to kind of kick start your whole learning thing, especially if you want to go into that for a career eventually.”
The project is a collaboration between the City of Negaunee, the high school and Honor Credit Union. The credit union donated $2,000 to the project.
Member Center Manager Sarah Wackerle said she wants to draw more attention to the talent in Negaunee.
“I’m really excited for students, families, friends, people who don’t live in the area that can come and check out the artwork that’s done locally so, again, just really focusing on the local artwork of our students,” Wackerle said.
Wackerle hinted that the project may expand to more students and artists in the future.
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Video: How to photograph the details in landscape photography
Over the years, we’ve published some great stories on why you should photograph the details in landscape photography (most recently in January this year).
It’s a genre we encourage people to try as intimate imagery can make for compelling photos, while also giving you a more diverse portfolio of work that will help distinguish you from the masses shooting traditional wide angle shots.
[embedded content]If you need further convincing, this video above from landscape photographer Adam Gibbs discusses how to find and photograph smaller details in landscape photography, particularly in forests. It’s a really well-done video that should give you some food for thought.
Check out the video above, and you can see more of Adam’s videos on YouTube.
Cover image: Mike O’Connor
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Traveling Harriet Tubman sculpture makes stop in the Lowcountry
The traveling sculpture called “Harriet Tubman – The Journey to Freedom” made a stop in the Lowcountry on Tuesday.
School photography project on Long Island aims to build community of kindness
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 9:29PM
BALDWIN, Nassau County (WABC) — For the third year in a row, a high school in Nassau County is using photography to foster unity, kindness and inclusion in its community.
The Hello Neighbor Project at Baldwin High School started in 2021 as the pandemic was ending and continued this year.
Advanced Placement photography students took portraits of second graders at Plaza Elementary School.
The portraits were then blown up to create large posters with each student’s hopes and dreams printed across the top.
The second graders’ dreams ran the gamut:
-I have a dream that I can collect trash and clean up the world.
-I dream the everyone will be nice and take care of each other.
-I hope to study more and get into Harvard University.
The posters are being displayed outside the high school for all to see, with the goal of building bridges across age groups and communities.
“We love that this project is continuing, as it is a part of the wider efforts through the school district to nurture good citizenship among all our students,” said Dr. Shari Camhi, the Superintendent of Schools at Baldwin Union Free School District.
The idea was inspired by photojournalist and artist Julie Keefe.
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RIT/NTID and School of Performing Arts present 2023-2024 theatrical season
The 2023-2024 theatrical season featuring a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Performing Arts and the Department of Performing Arts at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf will include a celebration of Deaf rap and hip hop, an adaptation of Hamlet, a multimedia dance production, and several immersive theatrical performances, among others.
“This season builds on the strong relationship between RIT’s School of Performing Arts and Performing Arts at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Our campus and the Rochester community benefit from the longstanding tradition of engaging Deaf theater and dance at NTID,” said Erica Haskell, director of the School of Performing Arts. “The season is a collective display of our diversity, originality, innovation, as well as student, faculty, and staff creativity and excellence, which will be on display at several venues across the university, including in the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED), opening this fall. We are beyond excited to bring the community these fantastic performances.”
This season’s productions are:
“Deaf Hip Hop and Rap Festival,” featuring Wawa, Sho’Roc, and more. Sept. 8-9, Sklarsky Glass Box Theater, Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED). This two-day celebration of Deaf hip hop and rap will feature performances by top recording artists, as well as dance, translation, and musicality workshops.
Thy Name is Woman, co-created by Jill Bradbury, Alexa Scott-Flaherty, and Andy Head. Nov. 9-12, Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall. Produced collaboratively by the School of Performing Arts and NTID Performing Arts, Thy Name is Woman is an immersive adaptation of Hamlet set in a modern context. This production explores the character of Shakespeare’s Ophelia and uses multi-sensory experiences and non-linear performance to investigate her past, psychology, motivations, and desires, all while inviting audiences to create their own understandings of her life and her decisions. Thy Name is Woman will offer performances in American Sign Language, spoken English, and Protactile.
AstroDance II: Across The Universe, created, directed and choreographed by Thomas Warfield. Dec. 1-3. Sklarsky Glass Box Theater, SHED. This multimedia, experiential dance production explores basic concepts of astrophysics such as gravitational waves and the interactions between objects in space through a series of vignettes performed in dance, ASL, and music. This interactive and interdisciplinary performance combines ballet, modern dance, tap, hip-hop dance, aerial arts, astrophysics, and the technologies of motion capture, projection mapping, and gaming interactives.
Ada and the Engine, written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Kelley Holley. April 5-7, 2024, Sklarsky Glass Box Theater, SHED. As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul mate Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a new world, one she might not live to see, where art and information converge. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age.
“Immersive Theatre Project,” created and directed by Ryan Underbakke. April 12-14, 2024, Sklarsky Glass Box Theater, SHED. The Immersive Theatre Project is a year-long creation culminating in a student-made production. Story enthusiasts and artists of all kinds, from actors to game designers to LARPers, will collaboratively develop a piece “in conversation with” the School of Performing Arts production of Ada and the Engine. Students will spend the fall semester devising storytelling concepts based on theatrical space, thematic structure, and performance. In the spring semester, these ideas will be transformed into a theatrical showing that connects back to Ada. Throughout the production, students will lead decision-making for marketing, rehearsals, design, and performances.
“Deaf Creators Play Festival,” April 19-21, 2024. Robert F. Panara Theatre, Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall. The fourth Deaf Creators Play Festival will feature four one-act plays by diverse Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and DeafBlind creators. Other festival activities will include panels and workshops. Interested play creators can submit plays for consideration on the NTID Department of Performing Arts webpage.
Titus Andronicus, written by William Shakespeare, and adapted by Howie Seago, Lezlie Cross, and Christine Albright-Tufts. August 2024, Robert F. Panara Theatre, LBJ Hall. In collaboration with Play On Shakespeare, this production will feature some of the top Deaf actors in the country and is adapted as part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play on! Initiative, which creates opportunities for artists who have historically been left out of Shakespeare performance in the United States. The adaptation explores themes of language, power, and community that will resonate with Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing audiences.
Tickets for the productions (excluding Titus Andronicus – ticket details TBA) will be $5 for students, senior citizens, and children under age 12; $10 for RIT faculty/staff/alumni; and $12 for the public. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone at 585-475-4121, or on campus at RIT University Arenas, 200 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester N.Y. 14623. Tickets may also be purchased at the venue on performance days two hours before the show begins.
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Artist Françoise Gilot, Who Chronicled Her Turbulent Decade-Long Relationship With Picasso, Is Dead at 101
Artist and memoirist Françoise Gilot, known for her tumultuous relationship with Pablo Picasso, has died at age 101 following heart and lung issues.
Gilot’s daughter, Aurelia Engel, confirmed her death to the New York Times. The centenarian is also survived by her two children with Picasso, Claude Picasso, director of the artist’s estate, the Picasso Administration; and fashion and jewelry designer Paloma Picasso; as well as four grandchildren.
During her life, Gilot was incredibly productive artist, painting well into her 90s and leaving behind some 1,600 canvases and 3,600 works on paper, according to Agence France Presse. She often worked with watercolors to create her vibrant paintings and was a dedicated ceramicist. Gilot received numerous honors in her native France, including the nation’s highest order of merit, the Legion of Honor.
Picasso met Gilot, 40 years his junior, in 1943, approaching her table at a Paris bistro with a bowl of cherries. When she and her friend told him they were artists, he allegedly responded: “That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day. Girls who look like that can’t be painters.”
But Gilot, who was born in a Paris suburb into an affluent family, had been an artist since she was three years old. She started out borrowing brushes from her watercolorist mother and, at her father’s insistence, maintained a gruelling schedule of eight hours a day of both painting and legal studies. She had even just had her first show, having dropped out of law school to study art at the Académie Julian.
Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot in 1952. Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images.
Despite being married to dancer Olga Khokhlova, Picasso was immediately entranced by the 21-year-old artist and, whose early work had a distinct Cubist bent. Gilot became a key muse for the older artist, who depicted her in masterpieces such as Woman-Flower (1946) and Femme assise (1949), which sold at auction for £8.5 million ($9.6 million) in London in 2012.
In the end, Gilot was the only woman to leave Picasso on her own terms. (The two were together for a decade, but never married.)
“Pablo was the greatest love of my life, but you had to take steps to protect yourself. I did, I left before I was destroyed,” Gilot recalled in Artists and Conversation, a 2021 book by Janet Hawley. “[Picasso was] astonishingly creative, a magician, so intelligent and seductive… But he was also very cruel, sadistic, and merciless to others, as well as to himself.”
Francoise Gilot and her daughter Paloma Picasso in 1952. Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images.
When she left him, Picasso told her “you imagine people will be interested in you,” according to a 1979 article in People. “They won’t ever, really, just for yourself. It will only be a kind of curiosity they will have about a person whose life has touched mine so intimately.”
Picasso has been back in the headlines recently as exhibitions around the world mark the 50th year since his death. The renewed attention has also brought up his well-documented mistreatment of women. This dark legacy is the subject of a critically panned exhibition, “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” at the Brooklyn Museum.
In a followup to her 2018 standup special that skewered Picasso’s problematic personal life, comedian Gadsby pairs the late Spanish artist with women artists such as Renee Cox, Käthe Kollwitz, Dindga McCannon, Ana Mendieta, and Marilyn Minter. Gilot and Picasso’s other lovers and muses, such as the artist Dora Maar, are mentioned in the exhibition, but their work is notably absent.
Francoise Gilot in 2015. Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images.
For her own part, Gilot was outspoken about her time with the famous artist, infamously publishing a best-selling memoir about their relationship, Life With Picasso, in 1964. (It was later adapted into the 1996 film Surviving Picasso, with Anthony Hopkins as the title role and Natascha McElhone playing Gilot.)
The book detailed Picasso’s physical and emotional abuse. “He took the cigarette he was smoking and touched it to my right cheek and held it there,” Gilot wrote. “He must have expected me to pull away, but I was determined not to give him the satisfaction.”
Picasso filed three unsuccessful lawsuits against the book, and never forgave Gilot for writing the revealing account of their life together. He attempted sabotage her art career, and would remain estranged from their children for the rest of his life.
Gilot and Jonas Salk after their wedding in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, France. Photo by Michel Ginfray/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images.
Gilot went on to marry twice, having her third child, Engel, with Luc Simon, a childhood friend. (The marriage lasted from 1955 to 1962.) In 1980, she married scientist Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine. They remained together until his death in 1995, but spent half of each year apart to focus on their respective careers, with Gilot keeping studios in New York and Paris.
She also served as chairwoman of the fine arts department at the University of Southern California, 1976 to 1983.
Françoise Gilot. Three Travel Sketchbooks: Venice, India, Senegal. Photo courtesy of Taschen.
Her work can be found in the collection of institutions including the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
In recent years, Gilot’s profile as an artist had risen. Gagosian organized “Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953,” the first exhibition pairing her art alongside that of Picasso, in 2012. In 2018, she published a facsimile edition of a trio of sketchbooks she made from 1974 to 1981, while traveling to India, Senegal, and Venice. Last year, the New York Times declared her an “‘It Girl’ at 100.”
Paloma à la Guitare’ set an auction record for the artist with a £922,500 ($1.3 million) sale at Sotheby’s London in 2021. Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for Sotheby’s.” width=”1024″ height=”705″ srcset=”https://www.mecreates.com/story/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-1319220356-1024×705.jpg 1024w, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/06/GettyImages-1319220356-300×207.jpg 300w, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/06/GettyImages-1319220356-1536×1057.jpg 1536w, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/06/GettyImages-1319220356-2048×1410.jpg 2048w, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/06/GettyImages-1319220356-50×34.jpg 50w, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/06/GettyImages-1319220356-1920×1322.jpg 1920w” sizes=”(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px”>
Francoise Gilot, Paloma à la Guitare set an auction record for the artist with a £922,500 ($1.3 million) sale at Sotheby’s London in 2021. Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for Sotheby’s.
Gilot’s auction record stands at £922,500 ($1.3 million), set at Sotheby’s London in 2021 for her oil painting Paloma à la Guitare, according to the Artnet Price Database. It was her first work to hit seven figures, and she had to wait for that milestone until the year she turned 100.
Picasso, on the other hand, for a time commanded the highest price ever achieved at auction with the 2015 sale of Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) for $179.4 million—since eclipsed only by Leonardo da Vinci’s $450 million Salvator Mundi.
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These Stunning Photography Projects Tell Stories of Conservation
With a new grant, two local photographers have gotten a boost to their work as they spotlight activists and share environmental issues through a lens of resilience.
Vital Impacts, a conservation storytelling nonprofit, announced the winners of its Environmental Photography Grants in May. This was the program’s inaugural year, and 372 submissions from 68 countries vied for the winning spots.
But in the end, two storytellers earned the $20,000 awards: Peruvian-Mexican photographer Musuk Nolte and Tailyr Irvine, a Salish and Kootenai photojournalist. Now, each will embark on an in-depth project documenting environmental issues and solutions in their local communities.
“As photographers, we are in a unique position to inform and influence change, but pressing the shutter is just the start,” says Vital Impacts co-founder Ami Vitale in a statement. “For images to have significance, they need to tell a story and reach people.”
The work honored by Vital Impacts is meant to do just that—highlight community-led conservation efforts. The program supports visual artists over the course of a year. With the grant money, the photographers gain more freedom to focus time on their projects, and the Vital Impacts team also provides mentorship to the winners.
To make way for a coal mine, people were evicted from their village in Lützerath, Germany. In this image by honorable mention winner Ingmar Björn Nolting, activists block the path of an excavator. Ingmar Björn Nolting / Courtesy of Vital Impacts
Nolte, one of the grant recipients, began photography at the age of 16 and took his first job working at a Peruvian newspaper just three years later. As an adult, his work has evolved—now, Nolte is “increasingly focused on topics concerning human rights, Indigenous cultures and, more recently, water issues,” he tells Smithsonian magazine in an email.
In his upcoming project, supported by Vital Impacts, water issues will be front and center: Nolte’s photographs will highlight Peruvian communities reviving ancestral water harvesting practices and planting queñual shrubs to combat climate change.
The queñual is a small tree with reddish bark that’s native to the high regions of the Andes. Adapted to cold weather, it can produce oxygen in high-altitude environments, enrich soils and prevent erosion. Though the queñual shrubs were largely deforested, planting new ones helps store and filter water.
A queñual shrub growing in the Andes Musuk Nolte / Courtesy of Vital Impacts
Nolte’s work captures the “Queñual Raymi,” or Queñual festival, in which the communities of Cusco plant up to 150,000 of the shrubs in a single day, he says. The festival centers ideas of reciprocity—people gather to plant the queñual shrubs, knowing their efforts will give back to future generations.
With these images, “instead of focusing on scarcity and despair, we get to learn that there are ways to combat climate change one shrub at a time,” contest judge Sabine Meyer, photography director for the National Audubon Society, says in a statement. “We also get to learn that solutions have existed for a long time—this story will give a voice to experts and amplify their knowledge in ways that will resonate at a larger scale.”
Women from the Abra Malaga community pick out queñual shrubs to plant high in the mountains. Musuk Nolte / Courtesy of Vital Impacts
The planting of queñual shrubs is accompanied by the revival of another ancestral practice called water seeding. In this conservation technique, communities collect rainwater in wells, so it can infiltrate the subsoil and be used during the dry season.
Nolte says his photography aims not to merely document, but to tell stories that promote empathy. “I am interested in photography as a tool for generating discourse and constructing narratives,” he says. “These stories enable us to bring other realities closer, often complex and critical ones. The role of photography and documentary work, in my view, is to bridge these realities with knowledge, providing context and direction.”
Irvine, the second grant winner, is working on a long-term project to produce in-depth coverage of Native America. The work she will do with the new funding is focused on bison restoration as well as the Land Back movement—a call for public lands, once taken illegally from Native Americans, to be given back to tribal nations. Her images will investigate how returning land to its original stewards affects wildlife and conservation.
Buffalo graze on a hill in the Turtle Mound Buffalo Ranch on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. These animals are part of a long-term effort to return bison to the lands they once roamed. Tailyr Irvine / Courtesy of Vital Impacts
Born and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, Irvine began her photography work as a college student to combat the misrepresentation of Native Americans that she saw in the media. “It was always stereotypes and poverty porn, and for me growing up, that’s not really what it looked like,” Irvine says to Smithsonian magazine. “I got into journalism to tell the stories that people don’t know.”
For example, one of her past reporting projects centered around Indigenous youth who attended a camp in rural Texas, where they learned traditional knowledge, including the role buffalo play in North America’s ecosystems. Elders from the Lipan Apache community taught students to set up tepees, sing and prepare the region’s traditional foods, such as cactus.
“Irvine’s existing body of work details such subtle and complex stories,” says David Barreda, senior photo editor of National Geographic, in the statement. “I fully expect this project, in her hands, to bring her to new heights in storytelling and a more wide-spread understanding of the real-world experiences of her community.”
Students learn to skin and quarter rabbits at a camp in rural Texas, meant to reconnect young people in the Lipan Apache community with their heritage. Tailyr Irvine / Courtesy of Vital Impacts
The Vital Impacts grant aims to uplift photographers who are spotlighting their own communities. Both winners say they are careful to represent their subjects fairly—Nolte says he sees photography as a process that should connect the story’s actors with the images, and Irvine says she’s meticulous in checking facts.
“Irvine and Nolte’s personal connections to their sources and their stories foster trust and enable them to delve deep into the lived realities of the people they photograph,” Barreda says in the statement. As a result, their upcoming work funded by the grant can deconstruct stereotypes and build an appreciation for diverse cultures, he adds. “I eagerly await to see what stories they have to tell.”
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