This is our tentative schedule for the Barnes and Noble space, which we should have for 6 months starting in December.

  

December        Charlene Schulz

 

January             Mary Rainey

February          Sally Skene 

March               Karin Burton

  

April                 Gene Morris

  

May                 Nancy Deliso

• Each artist should be aware when their hanging dates are.  The changeover usually takes place at 8:00 am and MUST be finished before the store opens at 9:00 am on Tuesdays (this is somewhat flexible, but  Mondays are bad, due to the B&N staff meeting).
• The store has a tall ladder.  The new artist should bring nails (not screws), hanging hooks, hammer, and any other materials they anticipate needing.  There is a 9x11” clear plastic holder for any flyer/information sheet you may wish to prepare (it is not required that you do so).  
• Optimally, the outgoing artist and new artist should work as a team to changeover the show in the time given.
• Note that all work must be hung at least 54” off the ground in order to clear the floor signs B&N uses.

The volunteers for this effort, Gene Morris, Charlene Schulz, Gennara Moore and Jim Schlett met with a representative from Cassidy Turley to review the space and discuss this potential relationship.   They are looking for a long term relationship with LRA.

I am delighted to let you know that we believe this can be a great addition for displaying your work.   The Real Estate Company said they would be willing to provide a "hanging system" which we had provided to them in terms of specifications.  They also indicated they would be willing and eager to have the first display start in December of this year.   They also mentioned that usually hold a "tenant event" around December 14-15 and they could try to coordinate that with our reception. 

The building is located at 10780 Parkridge Blvd, in Reston (Parkridge 5).    Each end of the building has a large, 2-story lobby with a great deal of window light and is suited for the display of very large pieces of art or photographs.  Due to the layout of the lobbies and windows, most of the display space in that area is well above normal eye level.  For that reason, we believe that the minimum size piece should be 36 inches (one-side) in the lobbies.

In addition, there is a long, well lit, ground floor hallway that connects one lobby to the other end of the building, which would be ideal for any size work and that hallway gets a considerable amount of foot traffic.  I would estimate the hallway to be at least 100 ft long.

In order to get ready for this opportunity on such short notice (and see if it is even realistic for December), we would need to get an idea of how many of our members would be interested in being part of this initial project.  The show would probably be set up in the first week of December and last for 3 full months, followed by the changing of work in March 2012.     Please let me know by next Wednesday, November 9, if you are interested with your name, the number of pieces you wish to display and the approximate size.   For example:

Michelangelo,     5 paintings, about 4 ft (48") x 6 ft (60")

Ansel Adams,    8 photographs,   16" x 20"

Once we know if we have enough work available, we will coordinate an actual registration prior to the show. 

In addition we will also be looking at another of their buildings at 12001 Sunrise Valley Drive (home of the Reston Association) for possible shows in 2012.

Best regards,

Thank you to those of you that attended the meeting on 10/17/11.  We were able to sign up a number of volunteers for key positions required to move to the next level.  We have exciting news about a new corporate partnership that will open up several exhibit spaces to our members in 2012.  Look forward to more information coming soon from your new volunteer committee: Jim Schlett, Charlene Fuhrman-Shulz, Gennara Moore and Gene Morris.

Please see attached documents we reviewed during the meeting and note some highlights:

• Our Treasurer is officially resigning in November 2011 and we don't have a successor.  We need someone with a Finance/Accounting skillset that is willing to take the position as soon as possible.  Committment level is 5-10 hours per month.  Technically the position holds a 3-year term, but we can be flexible based on what kind of volunteers we find.  I'd like to find someone willing to serve for at least a year if possible.
• We would like to change the bylaws according to the attached (and your input).  Please review and consider this notice of changes to be up for vote no later than January 2012.  We will send out more information about these and other changes as soon as possible.
• Get involved!!  Contact membership.LRA@gmail.com to get involved.  We're going to need a lot more volunteers to coordinate more shows.  We'd like a membership committee, exhibits committee and fundraising committee with a minimum of three members each - so email today to shape 2012 for LRA!!

Thankts and hope to see you soon!

President

www.leagueofrestonartists.org

p. 703 554 9852

The art staff at RCC Lake Anne were very impressed at the work displayed at this show . This a tribute to all that entered. Thanks to Carla Steckley who gave out the awards and read the judges comment since the judge was pulled away with a family situation.  Thanks to Stan Schretter and Sharon Kennedy who set up the food and drink tables

The Winners Are:  

First Place – Carla Steckley – Japanese Maple Detail

Second Place – Karen Rozbicki Stringer – Entryways

Third Place – Patricia Deege – Wood Siding and Old Lace

Honorable Mention – Sharon Kennedy – Please Identify

Honorable Mention – Dawn Murphy – Nymph Lake Reflection

Honorable Mention – John Henry Boes – Candy Lights

Honorable Mention – Guran Ekborg – Manhattan Borough,  NY

Honorable Mention – Carla Steckley – Lotus

Our November Program will be  at RCC Lake Anne on Nov 21st at 7:30 will be given by Charles Neenan. He will be talking about and displaying the use of  several new "filters" (Alien Skin, Topaz Labs, and NIK) in Adobe CS4 and how they allow for some very intriguing image manipulations.  Charles “will put together a digital presentation covering all below ….at a 90,000 foot view and field any and all questions as well” This will be an excellent opportunity to learn how to add the “wow factor “to your images and not to be missed.

Alien Skin Snap Art 2

Alien Skin Xenofex 2

NIK Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete

Dfine 2.0

Sharpener Pro 3 (has Raw pre-sharpener, & Output sharpener)

Silver Efex Pro 2

Viveza 2

Perfect Resize 7.0

PhotoTools 2.6 Professional Edition

Digimark

The Nature Visions Photo Expo. will be Nov 11th-13th. Go to www.naturevisions.org for all the details. We still need volunteers to fill various 2 hour slots so please let me know your availability and we can work out a time and place. You avoid the $10.00 entry fee and get to see the expo from a participants view. 

PhotoArt 2011:  The take down will be on Monday Oct 31st RCC Lake Anne from 9-11am. We have had the best comments on this show than any other RPS has done in the past and it’s a shame to see it come down. See below to transfer your images to the Reston Chamber.

Reston Chamber:  We will be hanging images from the PhotoArt at the Chamber for a 3 month period starting from Oct 31st. We only have room for 30 images at the Chamber so the first to commit by notifying me will have their images moved. We also need help that day taking down PhotoArt and hanging the Chamber so please volunteer.

December: No activities have a nice holiday

January 2012 Program:

Working Title

Architectural Photography: Creativity and Reality, or How to Balance the Right Brain with the Left

Topic

My presentation will be to let the audience know how to meld photographic creativity with client desires. The collaboration of client input and my own experience make for successful photographs and good client relations.

I’ll talk a bit about the business of photography and all of the non-photographic things that need to be addressed in order to run a successful business.

Supported by images from various assignments I’ll discuss my approach to both exterior and interior architectural photography as well as post-production editing techniques. The section on editing will be more about planning for your edits and what is possible and will not be a how-to clinic.

Experience/Education

Freelance commercial photographer from 1984 – present

1980-1984 Production Manager of Advanced Images, a custom photographic lab in Alexandria

1979-1980 Lab Tech at Advanced Images

1878 BA in International Economics from The George Washington University

 

Member Professional Photographers of America

Member National Association for Photoshop Professionals

Professional Affiliate Member American Institute of Architects, DC Chapter

 

Contact Information

Chris Spielmann

Spielmann Studio

1426 Beulah Road

Vienna, Virginia 22182

703.757.0216 studio

703.757.0241 fax

703.609.2975 cell

 

chris@spielmannstudio.com

Other Items of interest:

FREEMAN PATTERSON TO SPEAK/PRESENT ALL-DAY SEMINAR IN

NORTHERN VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 4 - 5.

The Joseph Miller Center for the Photographic Arts is pleased to announce

that the internationally renowned photographer, Freeman Patterson, will

present two programs at the Verizon Auditorium in the Occoquan Building on

the Manassas Campus of George Mason University. The first presentation will

be a Friday evening program November 4, entitled: “The Call of Creativity”.

The second will be an all-day seminar on Saturday, November 5, entitled:

“Seeing and Visual Design”.

Mr. Patterson last addressed members of the Greater Washington

photographic community in March 2002, when he presented an all-day

seminar at the International Monetary Fund Auditorium hosted by the

International Photographic Society.

Notes on the Friday evening, November 4, program, "The Call of Creativity":

! This is a presentation for everybody and not limited to just photographers. It should

be equally promoted to other visual and performing artists, educators, university and high school

students, designers of every sort, spiritual care workers, and everybody interested in

a visually and intellectually stimulating evening.

! During the two and a half hours (including an intermission), Freeman will combine

talking, projected images and music to examine the sources and nature of creativity,

essential facts about creativity and ways of accessing the creativity that we all possess.

"""""""" Freeman has given this program to large groups of photographers, university

students and as a keynote address to national conferences of university educators across

Canada, in South Africa and New Zealand, and will be presenting it in Israel in December.

This will be his first presentation of the program in the United States.

!

! ! Time: 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm. Registration fee: $30.00

Notes on the Saturday November 5, all-day seminar: “Seeing and Visual

Design”.

Freeman’s “Seeing and Visual Design” seminar has evolved over the years. (Because

the growing process just never ends, there will always be new ways of looking at and

discussing visual design).

""""""""Basic content: This seminar is about seeing and visual design. Visual design is the craft

of visual expression and communication.

""""""""During the morning, Freeman will be speaking about and illustrating (with projected

images) the building blocks of visual design and, during the afternoon, principles for

arranging them in picture space (composition). He will not be talking about the hardware

and software of film or digital photography, except in passing.

""""""""The seminar should be promoted to photographers of every stripe, painters, people

who sketch and draw, designers of every sort, gardeners, etc.

! ! Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Registration fee: $75.00

For additional information or to register contact Joseph Miller Center, e-mail:

furnfoto@aol.com. Phone: 703-754-7598. Please make registration checks payable to

JMCENTER, 4811 Catharpin Road, Gainesville, VA 20155.

10900 University Blvd

George Mason University - Prince William Campus, Manassas, VA 20109

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PRINCE WILLIAM CAMPUS

10900 University Boulevard

Manassas, Virginia 20110

Campus Information

703-993-8350

princewilliam.gmu.edu

Course: Social Media for Photographers

            Glen Echo Photoworks

Are you interested in marketing your photography. 

Discover strategic and creative ways on how social media could market your photography.  Enhance your online presence by learning the strategic marketing elements of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  Learn to search and interact with the right social audience to promote your photography. Questions: ana@anairizarry.com

 http://www.glenechophotoworks.org/2011/07/06/course-social-media-for-photographers/

I’m a producer with The Washington Post, and I’m writing to invite you to participate in our new photo project, “Your Washington Places.”

The project, launched this week, aims to showcase some of the metro area’s most photo-worthy spots as chosen and shot by staff photographers and area photo enthusiasts such as your club members.

Please consider encouraging your fellow members of the NVPS and others to post photos of their favorite places to shoot – including a description of why they like that location – to this new Washington Post gallery (http://www.washingtonpost.com/conversations/2011/06/29/AGVXAQrH_ugcgallery.html). All images will be featured on washingtonpost.com, and some of the best will be featured in the newspaper.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,

Brian

Brian M. Rosenthal

Producer, Interactivity

The Washington Post

1150 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20071

p. 202-334-9573 

rosenthalb@washpost.com

washingtonpost.com

twitter.com/postlive

Multiple Exposures Gallery

Torpedo Factory Art Center

For Immediate Release

JPEG attached

Contact – Michael Borek

photo@michaelborek.com

www.michaelborek.com

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Michael Borek: Effective Immediately

PLACE

Multiple Exposures Gallery

Torpedo Factory Art Center, Studio 312

105 N. Union Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

703.683.2205

EXHIBITION DATES

October 4 – November 7, 2011

11 .am. – 6 p.m. daily and 2 p.m. – 9 p.m. on Thursdays

OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, October 8, 2011

3-5 p.m.

In this solo exhibition, Michael Borek will be showing over 20 of his new photographs shot in an abandoned lace factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Many pictures from the Scranton Lace portfolio were selected for juried shows, including by Elisabeth Sussman, Whitney Museum of American Art; Philip Brookman, Corcoran Gallery of Art; Milena Kalinovska, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and Amanda Maddox, J.Paul Getty Museum.

The title of the show comes from an announcement made in May 2002, by the vice president of Scranton Lace Co.  He called all employees together in the middle of their shift to break the news that – effective immediately – the factory was closing. Effectively immediately, the employees lost their jobs and livelihoods, and the gradual decay of this abandoned place began.

Milena Kalinovska from the Hirshhorn Museum describes these works as follows: “Michael Borek’s Laceworks photographs were shot in a ghost-like atmosphere of a decommissioned factory in Pennsylvania. With laces still in the looms, chairs on the stage of the company’s theater, the images capture dissonance between quiet beauty and troubling reality.”

FROM THE ARTIST’S STATEMENT

• Upcoming exhibits and the need for an established exhibits coordinator. Board members decided to put out a call to the membership to fill this important position and to ultimately contract an outside hire to fulfill exhibit duties if no one responded.
• RPS Updates including membership, upcoming shows and budget.
• Re-launch of the LRA website to take place February 2010. Enhancements included additional collaborative features like better calendars, a Volunteers page and a tool to make updates easier.
• Scholarship Program status, deadlines and web page to be included in website relaunch.