Snohomish PUD announces 2023 student photography and art contests winners

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Photography

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash., April 30, 2023—Snohomish County PUD announced last Wednesday, April 26, the winning entries for its 2023 student photography and art contests. All students in grades K-12 who live in Snohomish County or on Camano Island were eligible to enter.

PUD Art Competition Winners

Artists were challenged with creating a superhero with energy-related superpowers. Entries were judged on creativity, content, clarity and originality related to the theme. Each winner received $75.

Power Girl throws lightning bolt with cat mascot — Taylor, 1st grade, Jefferson Elementary School

Super hero wearing tall hat and energizing powerlines — Colby, 1st grade, Cedar Wood Elementary

Super kitties gather in front of solar house and wind turbine — Sonia, 3rd grade, Sky Valley Education Center

Aqua Shock super hero turning water into electricity — Olivia, 4th grade, Tambark Creek Elementary

West Coast Wind Gecko flies over a body of water — Ava, 5th grade, Glenwood Elementary

Super hero charges phone quickly during an emergency — Marin, 7th grade, Explorer Middle School

Graphic panels feature young girl celebrating energy — Shruthika, 8th grade, Heatherwood Middle School

Sunray and Hydrowave use solar energy and hydropower — Brigitta, 9th grade, Snohomish High School

PUD High School Photography Competition Winners

Artists were challenged with creating “Energy in Action.” Energy comes in many forms including: radiant, thermal, potential, electrical, motion, sound, chemical. Entries were judged how well the photograph illustrates the theme “Energy in Action,” artistic merit and technical quality. Each winner received $75.

2023 high school photo contest winner - bulb with lines of energy — *Mark, 11th grade, Arlington High School*

2023 high school photo contest winner - aerial of icy nighttime street — *Jared, 12th grade, Glacier Peak High School*

2023 high school photo contest winner - flowing forest waterfall — *Nora, 12th grade, Arlington High School*

2023 high school photo contest winner - bulb smashing with shards flying — *Gunnar, 11th grade, Snohomish High School*

2023 high school photo contest winner - brightly lit stairs — *Trinity, 12th grade, Glacier Peak High School*

About Snohomish PUD

Snohomish County PUD is a municipal corporation of the state of Washington, formed by a majority vote of the people for the purpose of providing electric and/or water utility service. It is the largest of 28 PUDs in Washington state, the second largest publicly owned utility in the Pacific Northwest, and the 12th largest in the nation in terms of customers served. Snohomish County PUD serves 875,000 residents of Snohomish County and Camano Island providing electrical service to over 373,000 homes and businesses and water services to over 23,000 homes.

Woodland Photography at Night

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Photography

Woodland photography works best during foggy days. It helps to simplify the often chaotic forest environment. Soft sunlight early in the morning or late in the evening can also create a beautiful mood for your woodland photos. But what if you have neither fog nor the right light conditions? You can create those yourself, as I show in this article.

For the technique below, it has to be dark enough. You want the ambient light to reveal just a few details in the forest as a foundation for your photos. The end of blue hour in the evening or the beginning of blue hour in the morning is perfect. Then, you can produce compelling atmospheres by using a strong enough light setup. I used the Colbor CL60R combined with the Moman Power 99 battery for the photo below.

In the Field

Scouting is crucial for night photography. So, I selected a forest I knew very well for this experiment. I also arrived long before sunset to find a good composition and started planning where I wanted to set up my light later.

If you arrive early, take photos of the final scene while it’s still bright enough. Although I didn’t need those for the image above because the Colbor CL60R provided enough light, I wanted to play it safe. If the light is flat, it’s easy to darken those photos to later blend them with the night images where more detail is required using a technique called time blending.

Once you have arrived at a composition you like and taken your first photos, it’s time to plan the location of the light. I didn’t know what would look best when I began this experiment. But I found that having the light hidden behind a tree in the center of the frame results in the most dramatic atmosphere. Lighting the scene from the side causes too much chaos, and having the light source visible in the image can be distracting.

That’s why you should try to find a composition with the main subject in the center of the frame. Then you can set up the light directly behind it to create a beautiful rim light. It draws further attention to the shape of your subject, with shadows radiating out from behind.

Below is a comparison of the scene before sunset and during blue hour. You see how I turned ordinary light conditions into something magical.

All that was missing now to create the moody title photo was some post-processing.

Photo Editing

Looking through the photos from that evening for the first time, I knew I wanted to try a black-and-white conversion. Although the dark blue sky contrasted nicely with the red and orange leaves on the forest floor, the colors didn’t contribute to the atmosphere I was aiming for.

I wanted to show a scene that looked as if it was taken during the witching hour, with the trees dancing around the ethereal glow in the background.

As a first step, I did my usual raw conversion in Lightroom, mostly bringing up the shadows to reveal all detail my Canon EOS R5 had captured. The result is a relatively flat image, perfect for further editing in Photoshop.

After making the adjustments, I synchronized them to a few more photos I had taken for focus stacking. I then opened all photos as layers in Photoshop and performed the stacking through manual masking. If you want to learn more about my workflow, I recommend this article I wrote last year. I show different techniques, including manual stacking in Photoshop and automatic stacking in Helicon Focus.

After the stacking, there were two more steps. First, I performed the black-and-white conversion using a combination of a Gradient Map and Black and White adjustment layer. I show how I combined the two in the feature video. Alternatively, you can use plugins like Nik Silver Efex, which can yield great results.

Above, you can see that the black-and-white conversion alone wasn’t enough. The image on the left still looks pretty flat and lacks atmosphere. I could add further interest to the photo with a combination of “Curves,” a dodge and burn layer, and a blank layer, which I painted with different white textured brushes.

The image on the right pulls the viewer into the center of the frame. Drawing on the blank layer, I created a mist-like atmosphere around the dancing trees, making the scene look even more mystic.

Conclusion

While you can also use a torch to light-paint such a scene, using a static light allows you to produce predictable results. Mounting it on a tripod lets you create precise lighting by fine-tuning how your scene is lit. It’s similar to using a tripod for your camera, where you can make fine adjustments to your composition.

And by using a battery like the Moman Power 99, you also don’t have to rush. It was only 5 °C outside during my shoot, and I used the light for close to 30 minutes at intensities between 60 and 70%. When I packed up, the battery still had close to 80% of its capacity. I could have continued with my night photography for at least another hour.

It was definitely not my last time taking night photos with a studio light. Before that evening in the woods, I hadn’t taken many photos this year yet. The conditions so far weren’t inspiring after a year of traveling the world and the sensory overload this had created. But experimenting with the light helped ignite my creativity again.

10 Art Shows to See in LA This May

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Native

This month’s picks are all about community, networks of support, and perseverance. Lonnie Holley brings together a group of friends and colleagues in By Any Means Necessary, while tabernacle at FOCA explores themes of dislocation, diaspora, and domesticity. Vaginal Davis summons a cadre of influential performers through her “make-up paintings” and Sherrill Roland processes the isolation and dehumanization of incarceration through his diverse practice. EPOCH’s Xenospace explores how artists can utilize AI to counter virtual alienation through creative empowerment, and Exposure highlights the disastrous repercussions that nuclear testing and environmental exploitation have had on Indigenous people around the globe.

Carlos Rosales-Silva: Border Logic

Carlos Rosales-Silva, “Semilla” (2022), glass bead and crushed stone in acrylic paint with dyed stones and acrylic plastic on custom-shaped panel, 25 1/2 inches x 17 inches (image courtesy the artist and Sargent’s Daughters)

Carlos Rosales-Silva’s paintings reference the complicated history of abstraction, drawing on European modernism alongside the Indigenous visual traditions in the Americas that often provided inspiration for artists like Josef Albers and Juan O’Gorman in Mexico. He embeds bits of glass, stone, and plastic into his textured, shaped canvases, blurring the edges between art and craft. Reflecting on his background growing up in the border city of El Paso, Rosales-Silva’s vibrant, vital works don’t so much suggest a clear-cut “border logic” as offer a gleeful hybridity that skirts artificial borders and barriers altogether.

Sargent’s Daughters West (sargentsdaughters.com)
538 North Western Avenue, East Hollywood, Los Angeles
Through May 13

Vaginal Davis: Macha Family Romance

Vaginal Davis, “Cyd Charisse” (2018), glycerin, hydrogen peroxide, coconut oil, perfume, watercolor pencil, eye shadow, rouge, foundation, nail enamel, lacquer, polish, datura, hamamelis wasser, mandrake, henbane, hairspray, and iberogast on found paper, 11 inches x 8 inches (image courtesy the artist and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)

To create the expressionistic portraits in her solo show Macha Family Romance, Vaginal Davis used unconventional materials associated with beauty rituals such as eye shadow, nail polish, and perfume. They reference her own status as an influential member of LA’s underground queer/punk/performance scene since the late 1970s, as well as the theatrical practice of her subjects who include dancer Raven Wilkinson and actor and dancer Cyd Charisse. Made with potions, tonics, and tinctures, these “make-up paintings” as she calls them, suggest a sort of material-based transformation, forming a link to a show of astrological works by Cameron, who famously explored magic and witchcraft in her practice.

Marc Selwyn Fine Art (marcselwynfineart.com)
9953 South Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California
Through May 27

tabernacle

Andre Keichian, “deflections of a scattered line” (2023), 4-inch-by-5-inch glass negative photographic plate fused with sand from the Pacific shoreline, palm wood, sand, and chalk line; dimensions variable (photo by Ian Byers-Gamber)

After the Biblical Exodus from Egypt, Moses built a portable dwelling place, a tabernacle, for God so the Israelites could worship as they wandered the desert. Curator Matthew Lax uses the motif of the tabernacle to explore themes of diaspora, community, and ritual within a framework of uncertainty and physical dislocation. Participants include artist and theorist Boz Deseo Garden, Skid Row-based performance group Los Angeles Poverty Department, Andre Keichian who explores personal histories through photo, video, and sculpture, and Miller Robinson, a multi-disciplinary artist of Karuk, Yurok, and European descent whose performance-based objects evolve over time.

Fellows of Contemporary Art (focala.org)
970 North Broadway, Suite 208, Chinatown, Los Angeles
Through June 3

By Any Means Necessary

Lonnie Holley and Ronald Lockett in front of Lockett’s painting “Instinct for Survival” (c. 1992) (image courtesy Estates of Ronald Lockett and Lonnie Holley; Artists Rights Society (ARS); courtesy Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo)

Curated by artist and musician Lonnie Holley, By Any Means Necessary brings together the work of several Black artists from the South whose creative visions persevere despite the limited resources available to them. Participating artists include Louisiana Bendolph and Rita May Pettway whose quilts draw on the legacy of their hometown Gee’s Bend; Hawkins Bolden, who created “scarecrow” assemblages made from found objects despite losing his sight at age 8; and Ronald Lockett, who scoured his town of Bessemer, Alabama for sheets of tin, which he assembled into dynamic abstract compositions. The exhibition is presented alongside a show of works by Thornton Dial, a close friend of Holley’s and a cousin of Lockett’s who encouraged the younger artist in his practice.

Blum & Poe (blumandpoe.com)
2727 South La Cienega Boulevard, Culver City, California
Through June 10

Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology

Exposure is a group exhibition that confronts the effects of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear power accidents on Indigenous populations around the world. It features 36 artists or collectives from the US, Canada, Greenland, Japan, Australia, and the Pacific Islands including Adrian Stimson (Blackfoot), Bonnie Devine (Anishinaabe/Ojibway), Jessie Kleemann (Inuit), Jerrel Singer (Diné), Munro Te Whata (Māori/Niuean), and many others. Incorporating textile art, photography, sculpture, and VR, the exhibition lays out how a history of corporate greed and governmental negligence has had devastating effects on generations of native peoples.

Armory Center for the Arts (armoryarts.org)
145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, California
Through June 11

Xenospace

CROSSLUCID, “Dwellers Between the Waters” (2023), virtual installation: HD video with audio, directional audio, 3D sculptures, video narration; soundscape: Sayaka Botanic; text and poetry: Oxi Pëng; backdrop: Stalagmite cave (image courtesy the artists and EPOCH, Los Angeles)

Countering the fears that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to artists, Xenospace, on the online-only platform EPOCH, features seven artists who employ AI as a creative tool. Situated within a virtual environment created using the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, are films, sculptures, and installations made with assistance from deep learning programs. These include Libby Heaney’s untamed digital landscape offering an alternative to corporate control of data; Harvey Moon’s 3D-generated sculptures based on the organizational strategies of termites; and “Dwellers Beneath the Waters” by Shanghai-based collective CROSSLUCID which evokes magic and ritual to confront contemporary issues such as climate catastrophe, wars, and widening economic disparities.

Epoch (epoch.gallery)
Online through June 16

Didier William: Things Like This Don’t Happen Here

Didier William, “I Can’t Let You Go” (2023), acrylic, wood carving, and ink on panel, diptych; 26 inches x 41 inches (photo by Constance Mensh, courtesy James Fuentes and the artist)

Didier William draws on personal narratives, history, and myth to produce his charged, enigmatic images that incorporate painting, printmaking, and carving. Anonymous figures are depicted in caves or bodies of water, referencing his native Haiti and the legacies of colonialism that the country is still grappling with. As much as his works are defined by intense physicality, they also suggest a spiritual metaphysicality that transcends the earthly realm.

James Fuentes (jamesfuentes.com)
5015 Melrose Avenue, East Hollywood, Los Angeles
May 6–June 17

Virginia Jaramillo: East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Virginia Jaramillo, “To Touch the Earth” (2023) acrylic on canvas, 84 inches x 182 inches (image courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery)

East of the Sun, West of the Moon is Virginia Jaramillo’s first solo show in LA, featuring nine new works by the 84-year-old abstract painter. Born in El Paso but raised in LA, Jaramillo attended the Otis Art Institute before moving to New York. She participated in the seminal De Luxe Show in Houston in 1971, and she was more recently included in Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum in 2011, and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 at the Brooklyn Museum in 2017. Her recent work continues her longtime formal investigations into texture, color, geometry, and monochrome.

Pace (pacegallery.com)
1201 South La Brea Avenue, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
May 13–June 24

Sherrill Roland: do without, do within

Sherrill Roland, “But stuck here ’til we get there” (2023), etched acrylic, Kool-Aid, acrylic medium, epoxy, resin, 47 inches x 95 inches x 1 7/8 inches (photo by Jeff McLane, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles)

In 2013, Sherrill Roland spent 10 months in prison for a crime he was subsequently exonerated for. The experience has provided the raw material for much of his work in the ensuing decade, including the five series featured in do without, do within. These include a group of oscillating fan sculptures referencing the inadequate cooling systems provided for prisoners; domino-styled diptychs recalling the severity of carceral architecture; and abstract dot paintings made with Kool-Aid, the ubiquitous beverage served to incarcerated individuals.

Tanya Bonakdar (tanyabonakdargallery.com)
1010 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Through June 24

Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure

Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Jawbone of an Ass” (1982) (image courtesy the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat; licensed by Artestar, New York)

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of those artists whose outsized legacy and legendary persona loom so large that they threaten to overshadow his actual life and work. Produced by the Basquiat estate and curated by his sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, King Pleasure offers an intimate portrait of the artist, featuring over 200 paintings, drawings, and objects, many never before exhibited. The exhibition also includes recreations of Basquiat’s New York studio, his family home, and the VIP room at the Palladium nightclub for which he created two monumental paintings, giving his story much-needed context and depth.

The Grand LA (kingpleasure.basquiat.com)
100 South Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
Through July 31

Five Projects Selected For 2023-2025 Activate Rural Learning Lab Cohort

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Native

The Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) has announced the 5 projects selected for the 2023-2025 Activate Rural Learning Lab-a cohort-based peer network, workshop series, and resource hub which supports community leaders and artists in cultivating welcoming and creative physical places of connection in rural communities.

Activate Rural supports creative building activation projects that inspire, motivate, and open up possibilities for connection in rural communities across Minnesota. Five projects based in communities with populations under 10,000, were selected for the 2023-2025 Cohort, which is in its first year of operation, led by the Activate Rural Program Director Sarina Otaibi. Activate Rural projects will receive $25,000 for artist-led community engagement projects and program participation, one-on-one technical assistance, access to a supportive cohort peer network, project promotion and documentation support, access to Activate Rural Learning Lab resource guides and workshops, as well as travel and lodging costs for three core team members to attend two in-person cohort gatherings. This program is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.

Sarina Otaibi, Activate Rural Program Director says: “I am beyond excited to begin working closely with the 5 Activate Rural projects selected to participate in our first 2-year learning lab experience! Each project has a team of passionate and dedicated artists and activators ready to experiment, engage, and transform places into creative and welcoming hubs of connection for their communities.”

The Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) believes in working with artists, cultural workers, and connectors to strengthen rural places by supporting the role of community assets-social, cultural, and built-as a lens to help communities investigate and celebrate their collective story: past, present, and future. From creative taprooms and gathering places to multi-use community hubs and knowledge centers, DoPT views these types of ‘third places’ as vital contributors to increasing social connections, strengthening a shared sense of place, and supporting cross-cultural understanding in rural communities. The five building activation projects selected for the inaugural Activate Rural Cohort align with these values.

DoPT invites you to get to know the new 2023-2025 Activate Rural Cohort below:

City of Buhl-Buhl, MN

Activate a community building as a safe space for youth to gather and for community members to come together.

Reclaim Community-Jasper, MN

Activate ‘Bauman Hall’ as a welcoming place of comfort and learning and a social gathering place for creativity and connection in the community.

Mni Sota Arts-Redwood Falls, MN

Activate a downtown building as a place for Native artists to exhibit, gather and connect and as a safe place for truthful historical sharing.

Spring Grove Cinema-Spring Grove, MN

Activate the cooperatively-owned movie theater located downtown as a place for connection, innovation and community vitality.

Manoomin Arts Initiative-White Earth Nation

Activate and sustain the Animikii Print Club Studio into an artist-run print studio and gallery in the city of Mahnomen.

Please visit the Activate Rural homepage for more information on the program, selected projects, and DoPT: https://www.publictransformation.org/activate-rural

About Activate Rural:

The Activate Rural Learning Lab is a cohort-based peer network, workshop series, and resource hub which supports community leaders and artists in cultivating welcoming and creative physical places of connection in rural communities. Activate Rural’s artist-led asset activation framework, provides an accessible, replicable, and scalable approach to building design and development for those who have a passion and vision for working with their community. More information at www.publictransformation.org/activate-rural

About Department of Public Transformation (DoPT):

The Department of Public Transformation is an artist-led nonprofit organization that works to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places. More information at www.publictransformation.org

Artist Highlight: The Best in Show award at the 38th Annual Art in the Park

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Native

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Nathan Miller is an artist who captures the vibrant radiance of nature between the borders of his lovely acrylic artwork. His captivating works of art have now won him the Best in Show award at the 38th Annual Art in the Park, a showcase for the arts hosted on March 11 and 12 by the Hernando County Fine Arts Council at Tom Varn Park in Brooksville. Art in the Park is an annual event dedicated to fine art, craftsmanship, and community that creates a unique opportunity and tradition for artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts.

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“It felt amazing,” Miller said, referring to the win. “You never know exactly what the judges are thinking when they enter your booth. Art can be such a subjective thing. With my work, though, I really try to focus on detail, meaning, and originality. My exhibit features imaginative, realistic acrylic paintings of wildlife and people with themes relating to coexistence and conservation. Fortunately for me, the judges appreciated my work. But I didn’t enter with expectations. You can never go into it expecting to win. But when you do, it’s an incredible feeling. And it’s really nice when fellow artists give their support as well.”

Miller counts wildlife as his favorite artistic subject as well as his greatest inspiration. “I always loved animals, but it wasn’t until I moved to Costa Rica that I thoroughly explored the theme of wildlife in my work. Before then, I was working as a graphic designer in Houston, TX. I rarely found time to focus on my art, but I knew I wanted to paint,” he shared. “In 2012, I decided to pack up and move to Nosara, Costa Rica, a small beach town on the Pacific coast. With vibrant birds and howler monkeys surrounding the property where I lived, it was no surprise that they would become my inspiration. Since then, I have gravitated toward big cats and vulnerable species often found in indigenous folklore.”

It is through vivid streams of bright acrylic paint that Miller makes his nature-born subjects come alive on canvas. “Acrylic paint on board is my medium of choice. I started using acrylic paint in high school and exclusively used acrylics when I started my professional career in Costa Rica,” he said. “Since I worked from my home studio apartment, I preferred a water-based paint that was considered less toxic when used in a small space. While I originally painted on canvas, today, I prefer to paint on very smooth flat panels like Ampersand Gessobord. And my acrylic of choice is Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paints.”

Aside from his exhibit at Art in the Park, Miller also displays his work at Gallery 201 in Brooksville. His painting “Hope of a Florida Native” is currently featured in the collection of and on the promo poster for the gallery’s Florida Native exhibit.

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“The ‘Hope of a Florida Native’ canvas print that I have in the exhibit features a Florida panther mother with her two cubs surrounded by Florida’s natural ecosystem,” he said. “It’s my hope, as a Florida native, that we protect the panthers and their home. Pedram Moghaddam, the curator of Brooksville’s Gallery 201, appreciated this piece when he saw it at the Brooksville Art in the Park Festival. He asked if he could display it in the show, and I agreed.”

This show is only the latest showcase for Miller’s popular work. He stated, “I’ve displayed my work mostly at art festivals and through online exhibitions. But I have also displayed my work at Art Center Manatee in Bradenton, Florida. I’m considering displaying my art at exhibitions with the Society of Animal Artists or the International Guild of Realism.”

Miller has garnered a number of honors for his artistic masterworks, including an Award of Excellence from the 2023 Lake Wales Art Festival, a Bronze Award for “Legend of the Jaguar Shaman” from the 2022 Animal Painting Competition – Global Painting Conclave, and the Tom & Jan Nielsen Best in Show in 2022 from The Arts Festival of Carrollton. To read about his other honors and his career overall, check out the About page of his website at www.nathan miller.gallery.com.

Beyond the painted canvas, Miller’s artsy images can be seen on the surfaces of mass-produced puzzles as well. “A puzzle company from Europe reached out to me with interest in ‘Legend of the Jaguar Shaman,’ one of my most popular paintings. Realizing that images of my art would work well on puzzles, I decided, however, to do a little research into puzzle companies,” he said. “When I found Art & Fable Puzzle Company, I was really impressed. They specialize in high-quality puzzles that feature art by living artists. And they put a spotlight on the artists and donate a percentage of the profits to a charity of the artists’ choice. I reached out to them, and they decided to feature ‘Legend of the Jaguar Shaman’ on one of their puzzles. It recently won the Best Puzzle of the Year Award, and Art & Fable Puzzle Company won Best Overall Puzzle Company in the Puzzle Pals Choice Awards. And that was just the first. Art & Fable will be coming out with another puzzle before long featuring another one of my paintings.” These puzzles can be purchased directly from the Art & Fable website or from Miller’s website.

For Nathan Miller, the pursuit and mastery of the visual arts is clearly a lifetime passion. “I’ve been into art since as far back as I can remember,” he said. “My mother was an artist, and I believe I got the artist gene from her. She exposed me to art and supported my passion for drawing and painting.”

Miller counts his piece “Legend of the Jaguar Shaman” as his favorite artistic creation. “It was inspired by the five years I spent in Costa Rica,” he said. “It has meaning and significance to me, and it also seems to be resonating a lot with others as well.”

A native of Tampa, Miller now lives in Covington, GA. His work can be seen at various art festivals. Next, he will display his work at the Mayfair by the Lake Art Festival in Lakeland from May 13th–14th. He plans to return again in the fall.

“I’m planning to dive deeper into the art festival circuit. I’ll be doing more shows and traveling further distances to find the best shows,” he said. “I’ll be leasing my art more to companies like Art & Fable. In fact, some of my pieces will be made into Diamond Art Kits very soon. But ultimately, I’m looking forward to creating more art and finding the best venues where I can sell my work.”

Pedram Moghaddam, also the Hernando County Fine Arts Council vice chair and public art chair, is a great admirer of the work of Nathan Miller. “Nathan understands the material well in an imaginative, realistic style,” he said. “While depicting the subjects in their glory, subtleties in the use of light and dark play on the subjects’ sense of majesty.”

Nathan Miller and his art

RSJH Art Students Are Reatured in Youth Arts Exhibits

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Printmaking

ROCK SPRINGS — There’s still time to check out the current exhibit at the Community Fine Arts Center, which includes 126 Rock Springs Junior High School students artwork that will be on display until May 6. Each year, displays of the Sweetwater County School District No. 1 students’ artwork highlight the celebration of National Youth

Artist Assembles 897,560 Cardboard Pieces Into Roller Coaster

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Sculpture

Do you see Coney Island or Melbourne Luna Park in this roller coaster?

Life-size sculpture of Freya the euthanized walrus unveiled in Norway

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Sculpture

The life-size sculpture of Freya the (late) walrus — who became a global celebrity last year after it was seen frolicking and basking in an Oslo fjord — was unveiled at an Oslo marina on Saturday.

PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW FEATURES KEYS WEEKLY CONTRIBUTOR MARK HEDDEN

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Photography

JAG Gallery, 1075 Duval St., will feature a joint art show by photographers Lynne Bentley-Kemp and Mark Hedden, who is also a Keys Weekly columnist and contributor.

An opening reception for the show entitled, “Photo/Work” will take place at the gallery from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 5. The show will be on display until May 23.

“Most of my shows have been of large, documentary photography projects – environmental portraits, street photography nightscapes and other topics. I’m really looking forward to showing some work that I’ve shot outside of those projects, stuff that maybe hasn’t had a home elsewhere,” Hedden said. “Some are images from the start of a new project, some are continuation of older projects, and some are standalone photos that I hope bring their own context with them.”

Hedden is a writer, photographer and semi-professional birdwatcher. He has lived and worked in Key West for close to 30 years. His photo work is primarily documentary, often accompanied by text. Inspired by the concept of resource partitioning in the natural world, where multiple species coexist in the same landscape, Hedden’s work often examines the tiny island of Key West from differing perspectives, creating a series of conceptual maps of the same location.

Kemp’s photographs, often of the natural world and the water surrounding her Florida Keys home, have been shown and sold worldwide.

“Lynne Bentley-Kemp has cultivated a meditative practice of documenting the natural environment that seeps into her life,” states a description of a prior photography show at The Studios of Key West. “As a daily practice, she captures the water and sky surrounding her home each morning, resulting in thousands of images.”For more information about the show and the artists, email [email protected] or call the gallery at 305-407-6202.

Photographer Lynne Bentley-Kemp regularly documents the water and sky that surround her Florida Keys home. LYNNE BENTLEY-KEMP/Contributed

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Sights & Scenes From Churchill Downs’ Opening Night Extravaganza: Through Eyes & Lens(es) of Coady Photography

Apr 30, 2023 By Admin in Photography

(Churchill Downs was aglow on Opening Night / All Photos by Coady Photography)

Editor’s Note:

It was a night to behold. Dazzling lights. Spectacular races. Fans pouring in, dressed to the hilt.

It was the perfect scene and the perfect setting to kick start “Kentucky Derby Week 149.”

Here’s a few views from the stellar photo team at Coady Photography, led by the fearless Kurtis Coady:

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Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology

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