Special TH3 Event

Light Work would like to invite you to join us for a special TH3 workshop event this Thursday, February 21 at 5:30pm.
 
Jessica Heckman, promotions coordinator, will discuss how to create successful artist press packages, as well as professional writing techniques for artists. This discussion will include how to get press coverage for your exhibitions and how to prepare materials including press releases, postcards, and other necessary promotional materials. In addition, Hannah Frieser, director, will discuss creating proposals that give the best impression of your work. Just in time for Light Work Grant applications, bring a sample package and get feedback.

Save the Date
Make sure to mark your calendars for Light Work's March TH3 event. On Thursday, March 20 at 5:30pm Hannah Frieser, director, and Laura Guth, assistant director, will conduct a portfolio review for potential Light Work Grant applicants to offer last minute advice on their packages. They will also discuss the Light Work Grant judging process, which is completed by judges who live outside of the Central New York area.

Don't forget to enter the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography competition! Three $2,000 grants will be awarded to photographers, critics or photo-historians who reside within an approximate 50-mile radius of Syracuse, NY. The recipients of these grants are invited to display their work in a special exhibition at the Light Work Gallery, and their work will also be reproduced in Light Work's award-winning publication, Contact Sheet.

Applications must be postmarked or delivered to Light Work by March 31. All applicants must reside in of one of the following Central New York counties: Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Tioga or Tompkins.

Three judges, from outside the grant region, will review the applications. Their decisions are based solely on the strength of the candidates' portfolio and completed application. Individuals who received this award prior to 2004 are eligible to reapply. Full-time students are not eligible for this competition. Light Work Grant Applications can be picked up at Light Work or downloaded from our website.

Light Work Grant information | Download Application

[Image by Sylvia De Swaan, past Light Work Grant recipient]

Garie Waltzer joins Light Work during the month of February as our Artist-in-Residence. She is working on her Fugitive Landscape series, featuring exquisitely detailed black-and-white, large-scale images of civic spaces from sites around the world. While these individual images from public thoroughfares and places are representations of large scenes, their size, detail, and timing give the viewer a sense of the cultural pulse of each site. As each image unfolds a unique place with its own rhythms, people, and precedent, it also depicts complex chronologies that point to one another as parts of a single universe. Waltzer is making great use of our Syracuse winter weather to scan high resolution files of her work in the series, as well as using our large-format Epson printers and staff expertise to test the transition from printing with carbon pigmented inks to Epson inks.

A New York City native, Waltzer holds a BA in painting and an MFA in photography from SUNY Buffalo. Her work is exhibited nationally and included in many private, corporate, and museum collections. She is now based in Cleveland, Ohio, where she developed, chaired, and has taught in the photography program at Cuyahoga Community College for many years. From this base, Waltzer travels often to make her work, as she puts it, "compelled by the sweet chaos of unknown places...recording to remember and understand."

More of her work can be seen at www.gariewaltzer.com.

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