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I got photographs in the newest issue of Trace magazine. Check it out: www.trace212.com.

I like the photos. I hope you do too.

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Rebecca

Normally I wouldn’t try to cram a ton of stuff into one post, but I really just don’t have the patience for covering all these things separately, and with the attention they deserve, so I’ll try to cover them in order of importance (roughly). Here goes:

1. Denise Lira’s show was recently profiled on a local blog. The review praised the show saying, “Through her installation, the space became activated in two ways: honored for its native raw utility and transformed into something utterly otherwordly. … [Her show] has so far been the best art event of the year.” Congrats, Denise!
2. Our own Rich Meade was also recently featured, this time in the form of an interview (and cover photo) on a new online art magazine called Liz Corday. Check out the interview in their first issue!
3. For those of you interested in the Sam Taylor-Wood video pieces we saw when she spoke at the High Museum this past fall, check out a decent selection of her full-length video pieces on Ubuweb.
4. Photos from the Spring 2008 Grad Pot Luck are now online. They are abundantly mediocre, thanks to myself.
5. Pause | to begin is a “photographically driven publication” which you should submit work to. They will conduct a studio visit if you are among the chosen, and you might be published. Charles Altshul, John Paul Caponigro and Joyce Tenneson are advisers for the project. Deadline for submissions is 4/1/08 and the fee is $35.
6. I’m going to submit work to the following two places, among others: Museum of Contemporary Photography (in Chicago) and Blue Sky Gallery (in Portland). Nothing coming up, just thought I’d mention them, since, you know, you’re totally wanting to get your work out there now. Yeah.
7. Oh, make some other suggestions for places to submit in the comments.

-Walker OUT

Jonathan Bouknight is an artist in Atlanta who writes about area shows on his blog Local Ephemera. He dropped by the “SCAD on the Edge” show and gave an interesting—albeit, less than glowing—review of the work and the show overall. I’d say it’s a good read worth your perusal: “On the Street”

“If this show doesn’t get you excited about Atlanta’s next wave, nothing will.”

A photo by one Carla Aaron-Lopez used to illustrate…

Seven days and counting…

at first sight ll press release

A representative from Artforum magazine would like to view graduate student websites. Please email me (Jenny) at jkuhla@scad.edu with your web address at your very earliest convenience. Seniors and Grad Students only, please.

A recent ny times article caught my attention about meat consumption and our environment.  Thought it was an important enough article to share on here.

Read Article Here

Thousands of photographic negatives documenting the Spanish Civil War by famed photographer Robert Capa, presumed lost for decades, have found a permanent home at a photography center founded by Capa’s brother.

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Felicia Feaster on artist Travis Dodd …

Check out Polaroids new little toy. Now when a family member asks you to email them a copy of the family portrait you can just whip this bad boy out and save yourself from being put on aunt Susie’s bi-monthly newsletter. Thank you Polaroid.

Julia Fullerton-Batten’s Teen Stories = Awesome.

How did I/we miss this? Both our own Robert Gill (above) and Karen Williams (below) were featured on the Hey Hot Shot! blog this month.

My dad used to do this to wake me up when I was in high school, rapidly turning the lights in my room on and off while shouting “GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!” If only we’d known that it would eventually be worth $40,000.

From this week’s SCAD updates…

“New York Times magazine features SCAD photography professor

A photo illustration by SCAD-Atlanta photography professor Suellen Parker was featured on the cover of the June 17 issue of The New York Times Magazine. It marked the third appearance of Parker’s work in the publication, but was the first time her work was commissioned to appear on the cover. Three additional images by Parker appear with the story “Doctor or Drug Pusher,” which explores Drug Enforcement Administration investigations of doctors who prescribe pain medicine. View Parker’s images at www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17pain-t.html

The Times also created a video documenting Parker’s creative process. It demonstrates the steps involved with each work, including creating clay sculptures, photographing the sculptures as well as human models and digitally editing the photographs by combining elements. In the video, Parker likens the final step of her process to painting. View the video here .

Parker is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York with a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography and digital media. Her work is part of the “Talent Show Biennial” on display at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center through Aug. 11.”