You and your undergraduate students are once again cordially invited to participate in the campus-wide photo contest sponsored by the Art History Student Organization at Purdue. The theme is “Town and Country: Nature versus the Built Environment.” Each participant can submit up to 5 photos (to maximum dimensions of 11x17 in.), and they should be forwarded to Ann Nicoson in the Department of Art and Design, at anicoson@purdue.edu . Pictures can be sent digitally, or dropped off in printed form at Pao Hall, Room 3121 (3^rd floor).

The contest deadline is December 15, 2016.

I hope very much that you and your students will take part.

Hi,

With 4 weeks left TOTAL after this week, I do not intend to take time away to go to a gallery next Tuesday. 

Tuesday: Please be ready to work on models, photographing them, photographing objects you may want to Photoshop in, gathering textures and patterns you want to include, etc. on Tuesday next week.

Thursday next week is a PROGRESS CRITIQUE.

What should you have for that?

1. Preliminary photos of your constructed set using lighting

2. Physical or digital notes/sketches of what your intentions for the project are

3. Be ready to quickly translate your thoughts to the class as we look at your preliminary images

Nov 22nd: OPEN WORK DAY this means you can work inside or outside of class but DO WORK(I won't be here since I will be gone for Suwon Photography Festival 2016 in Korea. 

Nov 24th: HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Nov 29: Open lab time and ROUGH DRAFT OF ARTIST STATEMENT DUE 

Dec 1: INDIVIDUAL CRIT and work day [you must have new images to share that are VERY close to complete]

Dec 6: Work and Print day

Dec. 8: FINAL CRITIQUE!!! [don't be late! at all!]

What do you need for Final critique?

1. 5 images [see assignment sheet for dimensions]

2. Artist Statement posted in the blog.

3. Make some sort of flat folder to protect your work. It must be slightly bigger than your images. Poster board works great for these. And packing tape or duct tape or something. Put your name on it.

4. JPEGS saved in your final folder of each of your final prints as well as the usual layered files and flattened TIFF or PSD files and Put your digital image on the blog.

​Thanks and it is the big countdown!!!

Another Extra Credit Opportunity!

Purdue University Galleries invites you to join us THIS THURSDAY, Nov. 10 from 5:30 - 7 pm for an artist reception for "Robert Pruitt: Escape Velocity," in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Stewart Center.

Robert Pruitt makes drawings and sculptures about the complexity of black identity by combining contrasting signs and imagery of disparate Black influences and aesthetics. He layers Science Fiction, Hip Hop, comic books, and black political and social struggles into portraits of his friends and community.

The reception will include comments by the artist at 5:45 pm. Afterwards, members of the Haraka Writers from Purdue’s Black Cultural Center will share original poems inspired by Pruitt’s drawings.

For more information, go to cla.purdue.edu/galleries.
Hope to see you in the Galleries!

Sorry... I know the calendar just shifted a bit but I need to make another change. Today presented itself with an opportunity for you all as a class that I didn't want to pass up. There is an incredibly moving exhibition in the Reuff Gallery in Pao Hall (really just around the corner from the classroom). On Tuesday of next week the curator of the exhibition will be present in the gallery to talk to our class and another photography class at 3pm. Anybody interested can attend. It is not just for our classes. I am told the curator is a dynamic speaker.

So: Tuesday November 8th our class will MEET in the gallery at 3pm. Attendance will be taken as usual so be sure to find me to sign the sheet. Please take time to preview the exhibition in the gallery before class next Tuesday and be ready/feel free to ask questions after the curator speaks. Take notes.

​Thanks!

Down or Doom Conference

October 3rd-5th at Purdue University

New Technology Explosion

http://eventmobi.com/dawnordoom2016/speakers/158413

Check out the site!

Veronica Pena and Hector Canonge Performance event on Wednesday, 12th at 6PM.

6 p.m. Oct. 12. Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Yue-Kong Pao Hall. "Under Our Skin: Body and Territory," performance art exhibition featuring Verónica Pena and Hector Canonge. Co-sponsored by Reuff Galleries and the LCC. Central to the exhibition is a live, collaborative performance piece, "De La Ajeno" (“Of Others"). Canonge and Pena explore Hispanic stereotypes in relation to national and personal identity.

 Hello Art and Design Faculty and Graduate Students!

Entry for the next Westwood competition and exhibition takes place NEXT WEEK!

In short:

·         Students (undergraduate and graduate) can enter up to four works in any medium

·         Works do not need to be framed for entry

·         Drop off entries in the Rueff Galleries Monday – Wednesday, 10am – 5pm

·         Jury takes place Thursday

·         Notification/pick-up is Friday, 10am  – 5pm

·         Selected works will be displayed October 2016 – March 2017

More information can be found here:
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/rueffgalleries/Westwood/index.html

There is a Facebook event page, too:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1777760599106972/

Please encourage your students to enter – all levels (105 on up) are welcome. Entries do not have to have been created as a class assignment. This exhibition is a unique opportunity for our department and school to receive recognition from the president and his guests. I hope you agree that a strong showing from our students is incredibly important for our school.

Thanks for sharing this opportunity, and please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Liz

Liz Erlewine
Gallery Coordinator
Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries
Purdue University

eerlewin@purdue.edu
765.496.2958

1190H Pao Hall
552 W Wood St

West Lafayette, IN  47907

Purdue University Galleries invites you to join us THIS THURSDAY, Sept. 8 from 5:30 - 7 pm for the opening reception for "interspace," an exhibit of virtual and augmented reality in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Stewart Center. 

Featuring works by Rachel Rossin, Daniel Sauter, and Lucas Kuzma, this exhibition investigates virtual reality in the contemporary moment as an interspace between early experiments and notions of VR and those of today; between art, design and technology; between virtuality and reality; between rationality and emotion. 

The next wave of VR is happening now and is being heralded to reach its potential as a mass medium in the coming year. A range of predominantly vision-oriented immersive technologies promise more convincing immersive experiences - from new forms of empathy, storytelling and communication, to new ways of knowing and sensing the world.

"interspace" is part of the campus-wide event “Dawn or Doom 2016: Is Technology Moving Faster Than Our Ability to Understand?,” to be presented October 3 and 4. This exhibition is generously co-sponsored by American Digital and HPE.
http://www.purdue.edu/dawnordoom

For more information, go to cla.purdue.edu/galleries.
Hope to see you in the Galleries,

Craig

Craig Martin, Director
Purdue University Galleries
Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts
552 West Wood Street
West Lafayette, IN  47907-2002
(765) 494-3061
www.purdue.edu/galleries
www.facebook.com/PurdueUniversityGalleries

Today's lecture on camera control and artists work example for shooting assignment is posted. Check it out! Photograph with Intention!

Welcome to the Class!

Here is a quote by Adrienne Rich to contemplate your existence as an artist. 

"The movement for change is a changing movement, changing itself, demasculinizing itself, de-Westernizing itself, becoming a critical mass that is saying so in many different voices, languages, gestures, actions: It must change; we ourselves can change it.

We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same."

Adrienne Rich, « Notes toward a Politics of Location » 

Also here is the link which give you a direction about create a blog!
Please reference the site to create a blog.
http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Blog-on-Blogger

Make 8 pages:

Shooting Assignment 1
Shooting Assignment 2
Creative Assignment 1
Creative Assignment 2
Presentation
Final
Movie Responses
Critical Paper Responses