Update: Ed Knepley has shared his presentation with us: http://edknepleygallery.com/2014/02/18/abstract-slide-show/ Cancelled due to weather Program: Abstract Art & Photography. The pure art portion will be minimal and serve as context for the rest. The 1st section mainly will be an overview including things such as definitions, history, observations and suggestions anything dealing strictly with art
Current NVPS members Benita Mayo and Ginger Werz-Petricka will exhibit five of 39 images submitted at the WSP exhibit titled “Celebration of Color” Photos will hang in the WSP Gallery for the month of January 2014. The opening reception will be on Friday, January 3 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm and is free and open to
Starting December 28, 2013, entries will be accepted to the Fourth Annual Joseph Miller Abstract Photography Exhibit. The deadline for submission of entries will be February 26, 2014. As in the three previous Annual Abstract Photography Exhibits, the Fourth Annual Abstract Photography Exhibit will be an outstanding example of photography as art and should not
“Out of Place” is the theme for our February 18th competition with judge/photographer/world traveler Cindi Hobgood. January’s competition with the same theme was postponed. Please resubmit any digital images you uploaded by Sunday at 6pm. For more than 25 years, Cindi Hobgood traveled the world scouting film and television locations for major Hollywood studios… thus the name
Dear friends, I prepared the attached poster for the advertisement of my public presentation at the US National Arboretum on February 8th 2014, entitled, “Beauty of Things Insubstantial, Insignificant and Untouchable. A 5-Saturday workshop will follow in the Spring, also at the National Arboretum, called, “In Search of Artistic Personality.” In both of these events
The time has come to put up your photos if you would like to get feedback on the progress of your portfolio. The meeting of January 28, 2014 will be devoted to review of portfolios with feedback from Willa Friedman, Tom Brett, and Matthew Schmidt. Have your photos uploaded by January 21 and let Ken
We are pleased to welcome back Corey Hilz for our December 17th competition judging. If you have any rule questions or concerns you can emaill us at competition AT nvps.org.; including obtaining your password. Technical difficulties may be addressed to competitionsupport AT nvps.org . There is no theme this month and remember images must have
Theme postponed until February. Jim Steele will not be the judge. NVPS is most honored to have Jim Steele judge for our January 21, 2014 monthly competition. There is a theme this month and it is “Out Of Place”. We also will be having dinner with Jim at the Olive Garden Restaurant
In January, we visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, in West Virginia. Harpers Ferry is located where the Shenandoah River flows into the Potomac River below the Maryland Heights. At this river juncture, Harpers Ferry with its meticulously restored pre-Civil War structures maintained by the National Park Service is just waiting for photographers to visit.
Tom Pratuch says he displayed absolutely no artistic merit from birth. This tragic circumstance led to his high school art teacher taking pity and pointing him towards a small dark room. Who knew a dark room was a darkroom? The sheer enjoyment of watching an image float into being raised no existential questions whatsoever but struck