About me: ArtPride New Jersey works to increase public awareness of how important the arts are to New Jersey's economy, to our children's education and to our overall quality of life.
(June 26, 2008) Thanks to over 16,000 letters and emails to district legislators and Governor Corzine, $3.254 million will be restored to the cultural projects budget of the NJ State Council on the Arts for grants to arts groups around the state. Thank YOU for your help! If you care about the arts and think they are important to life in New Jersey, visit www.artpridenj.com and click on ACTION ALERT to tell your elected officials that NJ ARTS MAKE DOLLARS AND SENSE!!!
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Who I'd like to meet: All people who believe that a world without art is not a place they want to be!
Happy Upcoming birthday!! Hope ALL your birthday wishes come true!! A five minute video where I use the alphabet to describe my creations - sort of fun. Peace the WORLD needs MORE of IT!
Alone and Together: Tintype Portrait Studio Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ AFERRO. ORG October 3 + 4th, 1-7 PM
Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley is inviting the public to have their portrait taken at Gallery Aferro on October 3 and 4th from 1-7 PM. Sitters can come solo or with a loved one. The sittings are free. A print of the image is $10.
This portrait series is made with the wet plate collodion process, the leading mode of photography in the 1850's and 1860's. Tintypes are positive images exposed onto metal. This historic process has a different relationship to time than digital or film photography. The chemistry is hand-mixed and poured onto the plate in front of the sitter. As soon as the exposure is made in the wooden view camera, the plate must be taken to a portable dark box to be developed and fixed. The wet plate collodion image captures a pose held over several seconds or even minutes. This prolonged gaze creates a tension between the sitter and the camera. While a snapshot captures a moment about a 1/1000 of a second long, the tintype process allows for a portrait of a person or a couple to unfold over time; the image produced can then slow down our looking. A viewer sees the hard lines of bone structure, wrinkles and blemishes, but also sees bright, focused eyes staring back intently. This process allows the photographer and the viewer to stare, but it is not entirely voyeuristic, as the sitter stares back. The act of taking someone's portrait can once again be an event.
Keliy is hoping to meet and photograph as many people as possible while she is in Newark. All are welcome!
Check out the shareusa. org photo exhibit at the Art Alliance gallery in Red Bank going on until the 13th of July! It's a charity for Dominican orphans.
Have a GREAT weekend and Peace the WORLD needs more of it from artist durkART/Orlando Florida USA. I have a new You tube video out. Check it out - it is what my art work is all about. ( Of course it's art related, g-rated too).
http://www.perkinscenter.org/exhibitions.asp#pottery Our 11th Pottery Show and Sale is this weekend! Support local artists living in the Philly region! Over 23 artists will be selling their work. Visit our website for more information, www.perkinscenter.org
Spread the News...see Joe Bonamassa, the country's best selling blues guitarist, for just $10, this Thursday, November 15 at The Community Theatre in Morristown!
This special online discount has only been sent to our Myspace friends and to our local college contacts. But feel free to pass this message along to your friends.
Joe's been rippin' it up on the Billboard charts with his #1 blues CD, Sloe Gin. Joe will share the bill with bluegrass sensation Sam Bush and Crsoby Loggins, son of Kenny Loggins.
