Duane Michals: Photography &
Reality Friday, Oct. 18, 8 PM at Manchester
Craftsmen's Guild Duane Michals' presentation and
following reception are sponsored by Duane Michals was born in 1932 in
McKeesport, PA. He received a Bachelor of the Arts Without formal photographic training,
Michals broke new ground in an era dominated Early on, Michals also began to
incorporate text into his sequences and single images. Sarah Van Keuren Saturday, Oct. 19, 11:45 AM at
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Since 1980 Van Keuren has taught
non-silver processes at the University of the Arts (formerly
Philadelphia College of Art) where she is now holds the rank
of Adjunct Professor. She has also taught at the University
of Delaware and the Tyler School of Art. She has led
non-silver and pinhole camera workshops throughout the East
Coast, in New Mexico, in Finland, and most recently at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs
Since 1850 Saturday, Oct. 19, 9:00 AM at
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Pittsburgh is visually inspiring with its
dramatic terrain and industrial past. This presentation is
an overview of the major bodies of work, produced by
well-known and lesser-known photographers, in Pittsburgh
during the nineteen and twentieth century. Seen as a whole,
these photographs are a significant legacy of American urban
experience. Charlee Brodsky is a professor in the
School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University where she
teaches photography. In addition to exhibiting her own work
nationally, she has curated numerous exhibitions dealing
with the history of photography in Western
Pennsylvania. Strategies for Getting Work
Exhibited and Published with curators
Margery King (Warhol Museum), John
Massier (Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art), and Ariel
Shanberg (Woodstock Center for Photography) Saturday, Oct. 19, 10:00 AM at
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Colette Copeland is a nationally
established multi-media artist who teaches at University of
Pennsylvania and University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She
writes quarterly reviews for both Fotophile Magazine
and The Photo Review. (full
biography) Margery King joined The Andy
Warhol Museum curatorial department in 1991, contributing to
the planning of the Museum and the selection of works for
the permanent collection. She currently has primary
responsibility for curating exhibitions, both from the
collection and on loan, in addition to the preparation of
related publications and programs. (full
biography) John Massier: Prior to joining the
staff of Hallwalls in early 2001, John Massier had been an
independent curator and writer in Toronto for 13 years. From
1988 to 1998, he worked at the Koffler Gallery, where he
curated more than forty exhibitions of emerging and
established Canadian artists. (full
biography) Ariel Shanberg: The Woodstock
Center for Photography's Associate Program Director, he has
been a member of the staff since 1999. He works on all CPW
creative programs including exhibitions, the Center's
publication PHOTOGRAPHY QUARTERLY, WOODSTOCK A-I-R a
residency program for artists of color, film screenings,
portfolio reviews, and the Center's regional fellowship fund
which brings him into daily contact with artists and their
goals. (full
biography) Saturday, Oct. 19, 6:00 PM at
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Andrew Borowiec received his MFA from
Yale University and is currently a Professor of Art at The
University of Akron. He has received numerous grants and
awards for his work including the Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellowship, NEA grants, Ohio Arts Council
Individual Fellowship. His photography has been exhibited in
solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in
Chicago, Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh,
Colombus Museum of Art, O.K. Harris in New York. Saturday, Oct. 19, 1:00 PM to 5:00
PM including the Warhol Museum, the
Mattress Factory and the Silver Eye Center
portrait of Duane Michals ©Emily Wilson
SPE MidAtlantic and by Canon, Inc. as part of their
"Explorers of Light" series
and are open free to the public.
from the University of Denver in 1953 and worked as a
graphic designer
until he started taking pictures seriously in the late
1950s.
by documentary photo-journalism. In the 1960s he used the
medium to tell stories in
narrative form. The sequences, borrowing from cinematic
frame-by-frame technique,
communicated ideas through a number of panels, detailing
either temporal progression
or constantly altering perceptions of everyday objects.
Far from a pedantic interpretation of his own work, these
captions either told stories
or posed questions in such as way as to expand the scope of
the picture.
Throughout his career, Michals has used these deceptively
simple methods to contemplate
with child-like fascination subjects as universal as love,
loss, innocence and immortality.
Rising Vapors © 2001 Sarah van
Keuren
Mesta Worker and
Gear, 1913 - American, 20th Century
Beaver, Pennsylvania © 1995 Andrew
Borowiec
for Photography (where there will be a book signing with
Andrew Borowiec)