Hi People-
Sorry these notes are up so late. Getting back into the swing of things is difficult for everyone, I guess. The meeting on Monday was promising - we saw a lot of new faces thanks to Anthony Marchetti's Principles Class showing up. Thanks guys, and we hope you continue your involvement!
The big news is beginning next Monday, the 2nd of February. Mike Mergen, a freelance photographer out of Philadelphia, PA, is having a show in our Main Gallery at Ai. He's agreed to do a talk for us at 3:30 pm in the Main Gallery on Monday. A few of the teachers who teach that afternoon have agreed to bring their classes. I would like to encourage you, if you can, to show up and support the Club's efforts. We need you, the members, to make our endeavors worthwhile. If you can't make the talk for whatever reason, that's fine. Mike has also agreed to do informal portfolio reviews that evening in Room 318 at 5:00 pm. We will NOT be meeting formally this week as a result.
Moving on, we discussed possible fundraising efforts for this quarter. Bake sales have worked well for us in the past, and that it is an exceedingly easy thing to organize and carry out. Another idea that was brought up to us was something that the Minnesota Center for Photography used to do before they disbanded. It was a fundraiser that occurred just before Mother's Day that was a portrait sale known as "Shoot Your Mother". It would require a lot of work to pull it off, but it would also be a lot of fun and a great way to not only make money, but to practice some of the skills we're learning in our classes. If you're interested, please let us know - this would be a one-to-two day ordeal about a week or two before Mother's Day. We can only do this if we have enough participation from within the Club.
Finally, Rob Anderson, coordinator of Student Housing, has the Main Gallery space reserved during Pride Week. The potential show is to be installed on June 26th, and closes July 9th. I say "potential" because it sounds like Rob does not have any solid plans for the show. He has a theme, however, which is "From or Through the Queer Perspective". Basically, since Ai does not have a student organization specifically for GLBT-identified students, Rob was hoping an existing organization would step up to the plate for this show. Now it is very possible we could end up driving this boat home, and take full responsibility behind this. Photo Club is a good candidate, however, because we have experience with this (remember the show last quarter?). It is a great opportunity to work around a common theme, and will look great on our resumes. Once again, if you're interested, please feel free to e-mail the club (aiphotoclub@gmail.com) and let us know. If I can get enough interest from members, we can spearhead this and extend it to the rest of the student body.
And that is that. Hopefully we'll see you on Monday for Mike's talk, and bring your work for feedback Monday evening! We will meet again February 9th, as always in Room 318 at 5:00 pm. Remember, you can keep up with us here at the blog, and at our Twitter feed. Be on the lookout for a Facebook group soon!
Best regards,
Evan Pape
Photo Club President
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Welcome Back. Winter Quarter; 2009
Happy New Year people!-
And welcome back! Winter quarter is just underway, and Photo Club will follow suit as soon as we can. We have quite a few things going on this quarter, but of course none of it will come to pass if we can't get the involvement needed. So...
First thing's first: Meetings! Meetings will be held MONDAYS this quarter, at 5:00 pm. We will be increasing the frequency of meetings as well, instead of every other week, they will be WEEKLY. That means EVERY MONDAY this quarter we will meet. Meeting place is yet to be determined, but be on the lookout for flyers posted THIS WEEK.
Also: If you can't make meetings, Photo Club is making great strides this quarter to go digital! Between the blog, a new Facebook group, a Twitter feed, members can now keep up with what's going on outside the classroom, as well as contribute remotely! The Facebook group has not been made yet, but the Twitter is up. Link to our account, set up a Twitter for yourself, and follow us here:
Twitter Feed: AiPhotoClub
Lastly: in regard to the meeting on Monday January 26th, please come with ideas for fundraisers and a possible Photo Club Exhibition theme in the spring. We look forward to seeing you next Monday!
And welcome back! Winter quarter is just underway, and Photo Club will follow suit as soon as we can. We have quite a few things going on this quarter, but of course none of it will come to pass if we can't get the involvement needed. So...
First thing's first: Meetings! Meetings will be held MONDAYS this quarter, at 5:00 pm. We will be increasing the frequency of meetings as well, instead of every other week, they will be WEEKLY. That means EVERY MONDAY this quarter we will meet. Meeting place is yet to be determined, but be on the lookout for flyers posted THIS WEEK.
Also: If you can't make meetings, Photo Club is making great strides this quarter to go digital! Between the blog, a new Facebook group, a Twitter feed, members can now keep up with what's going on outside the classroom, as well as contribute remotely! The Facebook group has not been made yet, but the Twitter is up. Link to our account, set up a Twitter for yourself, and follow us here:
Twitter Feed: AiPhotoClub
Lastly: in regard to the meeting on Monday January 26th, please come with ideas for fundraisers and a possible Photo Club Exhibition theme in the spring. We look forward to seeing you next Monday!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Show Next Week! (and a meeting... not so important)
Okay Photographers-
The Diplopia Show is next Thursday! If you're in the show, and haven't picked up postcards yet, I'm told Colleen has a bunch on her desk in the Academic Director's Office, on the third floor. I myself am undergoing a process I dub "geurilla advertising". If I see a message board somewhere, a postcard goes up.
If you would like to help hang the show, we will meet at the Northrup King building on Tuesday morning at 10:30 am. I don't know how long it will take to hang the show, but I will be there as long as it takes.
IMPORTANT: This means work MUST be in by Monday, December 1st! Printed and framed, please. Once again, black frames, white mats. No size restrictions or set number of diptychs. Please leave work outside Colleen Mullins' office in the Academic Director's office on the third floor.
Due to the surprising verbal turnout, we may have to nix the idea for a "personal" wall. This is not set in stone, however. It all depends on the number of submissions we receive. ALSO! If you have work in the show, we are asking that you contribute some foodstuff to the opening. Anything Hors-d'euvre-y is great. I am taking the responsibility for drinks, I plan on having two large coffee urns and a punch bowl at the ready. This is going to be a huge gallery night, so we'll get a lot of overflow traffic.
There is also a possibility that there will be a second gallery night Saturday, December 6th. This will not nearly as busy as the opening on Thursday, but I hear it will be free and some of the other galleries will have their doors open as well. This will be around 12-5 that afternoon, and we will need someone to be there if our doors are to be open. E-mail us and let us know if you are interested.
Tear-down for the show will be Sunday, Dec 7th. There is a show going up in Gallery 332 the following Tuesday, and they are hanging Monday the 8th. If you can help out, again, e-mail us and let us know.
Ashley Miller is planning on making business card title cards for us, so with your submissions, please include a piece of paper with your:
Name
Title of piece
Medium used (Silver Gelatin, Inkjet Print, etc)
On to the meeting:
We had a quick meeting Tuesday this week. Mostly it was to finalize plans for the show, but we did have a question needing to be addressed regarding the holiday photo shoot fundraiser. For those of you who remember, Photo Club last year had a holiday photo shoot, in which clients would fill out order forms for Christmas cards and the like and we would photoraph them and/or their family. This unfortunately was not a huge success, but the question was brought up to Photo Club this year by Colleen.
We decided to decline for this year.
With all the work put into the show, and the timing (it would be an extremely late start) myself and several members decided to scrap that idea, with the intention of revisiting the option next year.
Okay, so we're all caught up now. If I've forgotten to mention anything, or if you are confused about the show at all, please e-mail me at aiphotoclub@gmail.com. Looking forward to next Thursday!
-Evan Pape
Photo Club President
The Diplopia Show is next Thursday! If you're in the show, and haven't picked up postcards yet, I'm told Colleen has a bunch on her desk in the Academic Director's Office, on the third floor. I myself am undergoing a process I dub "geurilla advertising". If I see a message board somewhere, a postcard goes up.
If you would like to help hang the show, we will meet at the Northrup King building on Tuesday morning at 10:30 am. I don't know how long it will take to hang the show, but I will be there as long as it takes.
IMPORTANT: This means work MUST be in by Monday, December 1st! Printed and framed, please. Once again, black frames, white mats. No size restrictions or set number of diptychs. Please leave work outside Colleen Mullins' office in the Academic Director's office on the third floor.
Due to the surprising verbal turnout, we may have to nix the idea for a "personal" wall. This is not set in stone, however. It all depends on the number of submissions we receive. ALSO! If you have work in the show, we are asking that you contribute some foodstuff to the opening. Anything Hors-d'euvre-y is great. I am taking the responsibility for drinks, I plan on having two large coffee urns and a punch bowl at the ready. This is going to be a huge gallery night, so we'll get a lot of overflow traffic.
There is also a possibility that there will be a second gallery night Saturday, December 6th. This will not nearly as busy as the opening on Thursday, but I hear it will be free and some of the other galleries will have their doors open as well. This will be around 12-5 that afternoon, and we will need someone to be there if our doors are to be open. E-mail us and let us know if you are interested.
Tear-down for the show will be Sunday, Dec 7th. There is a show going up in Gallery 332 the following Tuesday, and they are hanging Monday the 8th. If you can help out, again, e-mail us and let us know.
Ashley Miller is planning on making business card title cards for us, so with your submissions, please include a piece of paper with your:
Name
Title of piece
Medium used (Silver Gelatin, Inkjet Print, etc)
On to the meeting:
We had a quick meeting Tuesday this week. Mostly it was to finalize plans for the show, but we did have a question needing to be addressed regarding the holiday photo shoot fundraiser. For those of you who remember, Photo Club last year had a holiday photo shoot, in which clients would fill out order forms for Christmas cards and the like and we would photoraph them and/or their family. This unfortunately was not a huge success, but the question was brought up to Photo Club this year by Colleen.
We decided to decline for this year.
With all the work put into the show, and the timing (it would be an extremely late start) myself and several members decided to scrap that idea, with the intention of revisiting the option next year.
Okay, so we're all caught up now. If I've forgotten to mention anything, or if you are confused about the show at all, please e-mail me at aiphotoclub@gmail.com. Looking forward to next Thursday!
-Evan Pape
Photo Club President
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Diplopia Post Card!
Okay. I know I just updated. But here are the front and back of the postcards Jorie and I designed last night:
Meeting: 11 November 2008
Hey dudes! Hoping your midterms are going well.
Photo Club had a meeting yesterday. Correction: Jorie, Ashley Miller and I had a meeting and Anthony Marchetti was nice enough to join us. =) No one's fault; midterm week was crazy, the majority of the officers were in Cleveland this weekend for SPE regional. Ads were not there, and we understand that. Anyway!...
Our show for Photo Club, "Diplopia", is set for December 4th! We have "the large space" in the Northrup King Building, as opposed to the "small space." So, this means:
1. Submissions, submissions, submissions! Get them to us, we want your work up on our walls!
2. No size limits! I've heard concerns expressed from students that they feel constrained by the 11x14 limit. We've abolished that. I (Evan) am planning on purchasing a roll of paper for my work, and if you want to get in on that, let me know.
3. Separate frames are totally cool! They can be the same image in one frame, or two separate frames. No restrictions here, either!
4. The only thing we want to regulate is the frames themselves. Any size, but we are looking for black frames, and white mats. The officers and I are going to IKEA for our own, and that means cheap stuff!
We would love your stuff about a week or so before the show so we can set up. Also, our refreshments are going as pot-luck-y, so if you submit work, please bring something snacky for our gallery browsers to munch on as they contemplate our AWESOME work.
I will post a PDF of our postcard design soon. Our description of our show is "Photographs that split the perception of a single concept into two distinct images."
Our featured website this week was Smashing Magazine, a great website that isn't necessarily focused on photography, but is very design-oriented and a good source of inspiration for artists such as ourselves. Our featured photographer was Anthony Goicolea, a photographer mentioned by Kelli Connell, a speaker at SPE that we saw, who references him in her own work.
Our next meeting will be Week 8, Tuesday evening at 5:00 pm. We will have adverts and e-mails this time, promise!
Peace Out,
Evan Pape
President
Photo Club had a meeting yesterday. Correction: Jorie, Ashley Miller and I had a meeting and Anthony Marchetti was nice enough to join us. =) No one's fault; midterm week was crazy, the majority of the officers were in Cleveland this weekend for SPE regional. Ads were not there, and we understand that. Anyway!...
Our show for Photo Club, "Diplopia", is set for December 4th! We have "the large space" in the Northrup King Building, as opposed to the "small space." So, this means:
1. Submissions, submissions, submissions! Get them to us, we want your work up on our walls!
2. No size limits! I've heard concerns expressed from students that they feel constrained by the 11x14 limit. We've abolished that. I (Evan) am planning on purchasing a roll of paper for my work, and if you want to get in on that, let me know.
3. Separate frames are totally cool! They can be the same image in one frame, or two separate frames. No restrictions here, either!
4. The only thing we want to regulate is the frames themselves. Any size, but we are looking for black frames, and white mats. The officers and I are going to IKEA for our own, and that means cheap stuff!
We would love your stuff about a week or so before the show so we can set up. Also, our refreshments are going as pot-luck-y, so if you submit work, please bring something snacky for our gallery browsers to munch on as they contemplate our AWESOME work.
I will post a PDF of our postcard design soon. Our description of our show is "Photographs that split the perception of a single concept into two distinct images."
Our featured website this week was Smashing Magazine, a great website that isn't necessarily focused on photography, but is very design-oriented and a good source of inspiration for artists such as ourselves. Our featured photographer was Anthony Goicolea, a photographer mentioned by Kelli Connell, a speaker at SPE that we saw, who references him in her own work.
Our next meeting will be Week 8, Tuesday evening at 5:00 pm. We will have adverts and e-mails this time, promise!
Peace Out,
Evan Pape
President
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Photo Club goes to Cleveland!
For our second annual road trip to SPE's regional midwest conference we trekked our way across the states to Cleveland, OH.
Aside from rain and some poor directions we had a great time! One of the group's favorite speakers was Kelli Connell. You can check out her website here:
http://www.kelliconnell.com/
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