Please join us at our next regular meeting on May 16th! Our program is “Still Life in New Times” by Barbra Riley. Still life art has been around for millenia. Classic still lifes are foods, flowers, objects arranged artfully on a cloth or table. But what of contemporary objects? Our program will speak about and demonstrate how we can photograph lovely still lifes that represent our modern world, and we can practice!
Agenda:
7:00 – 7:10 Welcome and Member Share (if you have news to share and want to show an image with it, please submit by Tuesday before the meeting. Put SHARE in the subject heading, please.
7:10 – 7-25 Business: Calls for Entry, Club President Nominees
7:25 – 9:00 Program: Still Life in New Times – Barbra Riley, Mini-Workshop
Still Life in New Times
Come prepared to participate in a “mini-workshop.” We will have time to practice making images of a contemporary still life.
Bring your camera and a tripod if you have one, charged batteries, and your memory card. Barbra recommends your bringing the lens(es) you are most comfortable with.
Barbra Riley was born in Brooklyn, and she studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and California State University where she received her BA and MA in Art. After graduation, Barbra ran her own art and design studio in New York City. She designed, photographed, and worked with printers and bookbinders on commercial projects while she continued to produce and exhibit her own water-media paintings, hand-colored photographs and works on paper.
In 1978 began teaching at what is now Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She taught photography, book arts, and watercolor painting, in addition to developing the digital curriculum in photography and commercial design for the Art Department, and curated exhibitions for the Weil Gallery. She also conducted classes and workshops abroad. In 2016, Barbra retired from teaching to spend more time in her art studio at Canyon Lake.
Barbra Riley’s photographs and paintings have been widely exhibited for more than 40 years. She has been included in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California. In Texas, she has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Houston Center for Photography, Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, and The Art Museum of South Texas as well as dozens of other exhibition spaces. Currently, 20 large painted photographs by Riley (commissioned by the SPURS, NBA) are featured in the new AT&T Center Collection of Art in San Antonio.
Her website is https://barbrariley.com
Dues for 2019 are $12.
New members joining after the first of the year will pay a prorated amount. You may pay by check at the next meeting or mail to our treasurer, Winifred Simon, at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX 78676, or pay using PayPal.
Reminders
- If you have a Facebook account, you may join our club’s Closed Group page and keep up with current member news as well as postings of Calls for Entry that you may wish to enter, or share other important or interesting information with our group. Go to HCPC Members. You must be a paid member to post and use this account. It is the easiest and best way to keep current on photo opps and member news. Carolyn Whiteside is the administrator of this page – thank you Carolyn!
- You may also send a write-up of Accomplishments and Awards information that you would like to share on our website by submitting your information in a concise manner, and email to Art Arizpe at webmaster@hcphotoclub.org.
Julie Savasky is an Austin-based graphic designer. After 22 years at an international design consultancy, Pentagram, she now operates her own design practice which focuses on solving client’s communication problems through storytelling, brand awareness and culture.
Carolyn became serious about photography after retiring from Hays High School.
Carolyn’s photos have been published in Hill Country Magazine, Hill Country Alliance Calendars, Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine, and Cowboys and Indians Magazine. They have also been in gallery exhibitions at the Rockport Center for the Arts, A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas Photographic Society: 21, and the Naturescapes Exhibits at the Walker’s Gallery in San Marcos.
Some of the businesses that have a collection of her photos include: Airport Embassy Suites in San Antonio; Lexus and Subaru Dealerships at the Dominion in San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley; Dr. Layfield’s Orthodontics in New Braunfels; Hocheim Prairie Insurance in Cuero; and, Gruene River Grill in Gruene.
About Rob – “I received my first telescope when I was eight. It was the best gift ever. I’ve been a lover of the night sky ever since.
The best of my images are optimized for HDR prints using dyes infused into specially coated aluminum sheets. This process produces large format, exquisitely detailed, images. With the contrast and transparency of images in the telescope eyepiece, they capture the excitement and emotional impact of the night sky.”
We will meet at Dick’s Classic Garage at 2:00 PM for a photo shoot. Tripods are ok if you want to bring yours. The museum will close at 5:00. If you are coming after 4:00, please let us know, and someone will wait for you.
Starting out with a Brownie 120 TLR camera in the mid 70’s, Eric Schoondergang has enjoyed an on again, off again love affair with photography for most of his life.
Many believe that creativity is a gift bestowed to the geniuses of the world, but in reality, creativity is available to all. It simply needs to be nursed, cultivated and practiced. In a study by George Land and Beth Jarman it was found that non-creative behavior is learned. Nancy Cavender Garcia will highlight practices that will spark your creativity and help you develop the right muscles to intensify your creative skills.