PHOTOLUST Auction
Indulge your PHOTOLUST Saturday, October 2nd at Photo Center NW’s 5th annual benefit auction showcasing over 75 original works donated by top professionals and emerging artists. 6:00 – Doors open with the silent auction, live music, drinks and hors d’oeuvres 7:00 – Live Auction featuring Laura Michalek 9:00 – Silent and Live Auctions close, Reception, […]
Faculty Exhibition Reception
Come to a reception to recognize the work of Photo Center faculty on October 15 from 6-9pm. We’ll be raising glasses to the artistic achievements of our instructors, and three (we aren’t sure who has been chosen by our Faculty Advisory Board) will give talks on their work. Stay tuned for details about who will […]
Heads Up: Members Juried Show Deadlines
Just a reminder that the deadline for the 2010 Members Juried Exhibition is Friday October 22. Our Juror this year is Christa Dix of Wall space Gallery. Any Photo Center member may submit work for the show, so if you aren’t already a member, consider supporting the Center and participating. Find out more about the […]
First Look: Photo Center Faculty Exhibition
Gina White, a tireless volunteer and faculty member is helping to organize Picture Us: Photo Center Faculty Exhibition. Here’s a list of the faculty members who will have work in the show: Rosanne Olson Michelle Bates Seth Thompson Robin Stein Mateo Zachai Lance Mercer Rebekah Rocha Gina White Nancy LeVine Janet Neuhauser Jahnavi Lisa Barnes […]
Collodion & Tintypes: Back from the Dead
In September (September 25 to be exact) we’re hosting a workshop with Connie Begg, an artist and teacher versed in the use of wet collodion, a 19th century photographic process invented in the early 1850s. The process can be used to sensitize both glass plates (this was the predominant method of making photographs during the […]
Amy Blakemore Lecture @ SAM
On September 2nd at 7pm SAM curator Marisa Sanchez will be giving a talk with artist Amy Blakemore to open the exhibition Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988 – 2008 at the Seattle Art Museum. The talk is free and open to the public, so head downtown to SAM and meet in the photography gallery on the […]
Rummage Rummage Rummage
Photo Center NW is teaming up with Youth in Focus to offer the ultimate photo rummage sale. With a basement full of photographic and darkroom equipment, accessories and curios, we need to purge our reserves about twice a year. One area where we usually don’t have much to sell is in Cameras and Lenses. This […]
Metro Partnership
The Photo Center is proud to announce a 2010-11 partnership with King County Metro, in which photo students here will create images for bus shelters around the region. Funded by 4Culture, this project will involve students from our City Panorama course, and advanced students active at the Photo Center. We don’t know which bus shelters […]
Present Tense: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Ann Pallesen and gallery crew are installing Present Tense (lecture, opening reception and awards on Aug 13) downstairs. One of the driving concepts of the show was a kind of artistic defiance, defiance against ideas that photography has been diluted by an overabundance of images, that printed photo books are rapidly being replaced by online […]