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This is My World: Juried Student Exhibition 2024
June 6, 2024 to June 30, 2024
Description:
Photography encourages self-expression and creativity and can build confidence as well as a sense of individual identity. It can also help to develop critical thinking and the ability to interpret the world around us. Images for the student exhibition should be personal, meaningful, and indicative of identity. The process of photographic image making — from choosing subject matter to discovering new ways of manipulating light — requires “focus.” This very process of observing and creating, is, by nature, a meditative task that draws you into a mindful, peaceful state. In this sense, students can use their photography practice as a tool to curate and reframe the world around them. Spectrum Art Gallery invites Central Valley high school and college students to submit images of their self-expressive photography.
The application period will run from December 15, 2023 through May 1, 2024. All submissions will be posted to our website for public viewing. Then three highly qualified judges will select 40 finalists for the gallery exhibition. Finalists’ printed and ready to install works must be delivered to Spectrum Art Gallery by May 26, 2024. The gallery exhibition is scheduled to begin June 6, 2024 for the Art Hop reception– a monthly celebration of art exhibits and venues throughout Fresno’s Tower District. The awards selection will take place June 4 & 5 prior to the opening reception.
Criteria: Open to students in a High School or College Photography Program within the Fresno/Madera/Kings/Tulare Counties.
2 Categories:
Division I: Sr. Division – College Students
Division II: Jr. Division – High School Students
Fees: None
Rules:
Students may submit 1-3 digital images. Images must be submitted electronically for 1st pass of judging. The jurors will select one image from each student to be exhibited in a digital gallery for an online exhibition. The jurors will then select 40 images for the gallery exhibit. If selected for gallery exhibition, images need to be printed, ready to install and delivered by the deadline. All images selected for gallery exhibition will be juried for awards. Read below for guidelines and timeline.
Guidelines:
Digital images must be no larger than 5 inches on the longest side/dimension and resolution of 300 ppi. Jpg files only. File naming: firstname-lastname-title
Printed images should be sized to fit a 16×20 overmat, recommended no larger than 12×18 image area (paper size may vary).
There is no minimum image size.
Over mats can be provided for finalists’ gallery prints free of charge. If needed check the appropriate box in the digital application.
How to Apply: Fill out application and submit images online https://spectrumphotogallery.org/home/call-for-entry/
Timeline:
May 1, 2024 | Deadline for applications & digital images
May 1 – 9, 2024 | Online judging
May 10, 2024 | Notification of winners for gallery exhibition
May 10 – 26, 2024 | Over mats made for gallery prints (if requested)
May 26, 2024 Deadline for ready to install prints
June 2, 2024 | Installation Begins
June 4 – 5, 2024 | Gallery judging & award assignments
June 6, 2024 | ArtHop Reception
June 21, 2024 | Friday Photography Live: Exhibitors’ Panel Discussion
June 30, 2024 | Closing Reception/De-Installation
GALLERY EXHIBITION PRIZES
Division I:
1st Place ($500 Value)
$200 Cash Prize, Ribbon, Exhibition at Spectrum Art Gallery, and 1 Year Student Membership to Spectrum Art Gallery
2nd Place ($400 Value)
$100 Cash Prize, Ribbon, Exhibition at Spectrum Art Gallery, and 1 Year Student Membership to Spectrum Art Gallery
3rd Place ($350 Value)
$50 Cash Prize, Ribbon, Exhibition at Spectrum Art Gallery, and 1 Year Student Membership to Spectrum Art Gallery
Honorable Mention: Ribbon
Division II:
1st Place ($450 Value)
$150 Cash Prize, Ribbon, Exhibition at Spectrum Art Gallery, and 1 Year Student Membership to Spectrum Art Gallery
2nd Place ($375 Value)
$75 Cash Prize, Ribbon, Exhibition at Spectrum Art Gallery, and 1 Year Student
Membership to Spectrum Art Gallery
3rd Place ($325 Value)
$25 Cash Prize, Ribbon, Exhibition at Spectrum Art Gallery, and1 Year Student
Membership to Spectrum Art Gallery
Honorable Mention: Ribbon
Sandra Lee (Sandee) Scott
In her forty-year career as a mental health professional Sandra Lee has worked as a Rehabilitation Counselor, High School Counselor, Community College Counselor and Instructor, Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist, and Employee Assistance Counselor. As a psychotherapist, one of her primary interests was in child abuse prevention, intervention and treatment. She also created and facilitated the retreat/workshop “Finding Inner Peace after Loss.”
Sandee has been highly interested in the arts since her teen years and has the equivalent of a college minor in art. She pursued her interest in photography, painting and mixed media on a limited basis for many years while working in the mental health field. Her MFT license is currently “inactive” and she is happily devoting her time to art.
Sandee expresses her passion for creativity through pastel painting, alcohol ink, cold wax and oil, mixed media projects, and photography. Her artwork has received recognition and won awards in local exhibits and she has been a participating artist in Sierra Art Trails since 2014. Additionally, she has felt honored to have her mixed media pieces accepted in recent Yosemite Renaissance exhibits. Her work can be seen intermittently at various venues sponsored by Yosemite Sierra Artists.
Steve Dzerigian
Weaving history, philosophy, and the natural world with artmaking, Steve Dzerigian adopted photography as his primary investigative and contemplative tool. The activities of photography and teaching it became his life’s work. He instructed field workshops for the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension from 1977 through 2007. For the Ansel Adams Gallery Photography Workshop in Yosemite, from 1984 to 1990, he was an assistant instructor and served as director one of those years. In 2002, he was co-coordinator for the “Ansel Adams Centennial Symposium in Yosemite, Edges and Intersections: The Evolution of Change”. Devoted to facilitating art and education in Central California for more than forty-five years, he has served as curator, juror, and consultant for many exhibitions, competitions, and media events, in addition to teaching photography full-time at Fresno City College.
In 1980, he expanded the idea of a local gallery devoted to photography by gathering the charter members who created Spectrum Art Gallery, one of the longest running, non-profit, cooperatives of its type in the country. In addition, he was one of the founding members of noted cooperative, interdisciplinary art gallery, Corridor 2122. As well as represented in many public and private collections, Steve Dzerigian’s works have been exhibited in many one-person and group exhibitions in Museums and Galleries throughout the United States such as the Chautauqua Art Association Gallery, N.Y.; Central Washington University; Light Impressions Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.; The University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Ore.; Fresno Metropolitan Museum; Spectrum Art Gallery, Fresno, Ca.; Corridor 2122 Gallery, Fresno Ca.; The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, Monterrey, & Mumm Napa Valley; the U.C. Center; and the Nikon House, New York City; The Ansel Adams Gallery at the Highlands Inn, Carmel; the de Saisset Gallery of Santa Clara University; the Ellipse Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery in the Fresno State Library, Ca.; plus three Solo shows at the Fresno Art Museum. In addition, his work has been seen in the publications “Black & White” Magazine, “LensWork Quarterly”, “Color” Magazine, “Focus” Magazine, “Photography” by London, Stone, & Upton, and “Exploring Color Photography” by Robert Hirsch, and “Artistry Unleashed” by Hilary Austen. In 2018, The Press at California State University, Fresno published his book, Trail of Stones: My Path in Photography.
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