This workshop is a one-hour, FREE seminar open to the public. It is facilitated by En Foco staff, in collaboration with other NY curators, reviewers or artists.
Topics covered include: the importance of understanding submission requirements; technical quality of imagery; what constitutes a cohesive series; artist statements; support materials; reviewer’s pet peeves (from an informal survey).
Participants will receive En Foco’s Photographer’s Resources list.
This workshop is offered in partnership with El Taller Boricua Galleries, and is sponsored in part with funding by the NY State Council on the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
These events have been offered at the Latin Collector Gallery in midtown in collaboration with the Center for Photography at Woodstock; the Association of Hispanic Arts in El Barrio; Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos; and Wilmer Jennings Gallery/Kenkeleba, in Manhattan.
| Location: |
El Taller Boricua Galleries
The Julia De Burgos Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Avenue @ 106th Street
New York, NY 10029
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| Date: |
Friday, June 13, 2008
6:00pm |
| Cost: |
FREE |
Bio:
Marisol Díaz, En Foco’s Program Director, was born and raised in the
Bronx, NY. She received a Bachelor in Arts degree in photography from City
College City University of New York (2002), and an Associates degree in
Advertising Arts from Bronx Community College (1993). Díaz has been with
En Foco since 1999, to curating its Touring Gallery exhibitions,
facilitating workshops and portfolio reviews, and New Works Photography
Awards. Other accomplishments include teaching photography at the Bronx
International High School, the Bronx River Art Center, the Millbrook
Community Center in the Bronx, and Pelham Hutchinson Elementary, in
Pelham, NY. She has also conducted workshops in collaboration with the
Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts and Pepatián. Díaz
has served as a panelist for the Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx Net, and
Coca Cola’s Art in Harmony program. Díaz is a recipient of the Brio Award
(2004) from the Bronx Council on the Arts and the NY State Senate Award
for her contribution to the arts in her community (2002). Her work has
been exhibited in several galleries and alternative spaces in New York and
Philadelphia, most recently at El Taller Borícua in New York City.
http://www.marisoldiaz.com
Miriam Romais has been with En Foco as Managing Director since 1992, and
became Executive Director and Nueva Luz Editor in November of 2005. She
received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rutgers University in 1990, and has
curated many of En Foco’s exhibitions and independently – the traveling
exhibition Fire Without Gold: Works by Photographers of Color (1990–1996)
featuring Dawoud Bey, Albert Chong, Carrie Mae Weems, Eli Reed and other
established artists of color. Upcoming curatorial projects include an
exhibition for SPE’s Multicultural Caucus, as part of the National
Conference in Miami, FL in 2007. As a panelist/reviewer, she has served
with FotoFest in Houston, TX; Santa Fe Center for Photography, AZ;
Positive Focus in Brooklyn, NY; the Bronx Council on the Arts; the New
York Foundation for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’
Percent for Art and Artist Certification Committee; and most recently the
Center for Photography at Woodstock, where she is also on the Board of
Advisors. As a photographer, she has been awarded a Photography Grant
from the Puffin Foundation, artist residencies at Light Work, the
Photographic Resource Center; and two Visual Arts Travel Grants from the
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Romais’ work has been published in several
books including Americanos: A Portrait of Latino Life in the U.S. (Little
Brown & Co, 1999), which also led to the Smithsonian/SITES exhibitions of
the same name. Romais is Brazilian-American. http://www.romaisphotos.com
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