December 2009 Archives

Courtney Mitchell's Photo of a South Providence statue graces the month of February in the AS220 Photographic Memory 2010 Calendar. Courtney has been with Photographic Memory for several years now. During this time she has consistently worked on her personal portfolio, assisted on several commercial shoots and worked very hard to make this calendar a success. Soon Courtney will be leaving RI for art school in Pittsburgh Pa, with help from the portfolio she made in Photographic Memory. Purchasing this Calendar for $15 gives the viewer an important way to support Photographic Memory and enjoy the work of all these talented photographers for the upcoming year..... or longer! Please visit our online shop at www.as220.org/shop to order your calendar(s) today!

Meet Anthony Villavicencio, holding the Photographic Memory 2010 Calendar opened to his photograph for the month of September. Photographic Memory, AS220's youth photography and training program, proudly presents a culmination of their collective work in this beautiful 2010 calendar. In the Photographic Memory program young people gain technical training in photography and develop a personal portfolio documenting their own lives as only they can. Our classes held in the RI Training School and at AS220 in downtown Providence engage students who have little or no arts education in their school experience. Photo Mem also offers professional practice by offering committed students the opportunity to assist professional photographers on commercial jobs and the chance to show their fine art photography in gallery settings. For students seeking a college education, these portfolios have been used to gain admittance to RISD, Pratt, Chicago Art Institute and Hampshire College. Purchasing this Calendar for $15 gives the viewer an important way to support Photographic Memory and enjoy the work of these talented photographers for the upcoming year.... or longer! Check out our online store at www.as220.org/shop.

Escape the pending winter gloom and doom this weekend with a very special Darkroom event at AS220! Stewart Martin, master printer, photographer extrordinaire and friend of AS220 will be giving an Artist Talk to accompany his current exibit, "Personal Favorites:1975-2000," on display through Dec.27 at the AS220 Main Gallery at 115 Empire St. Martin, shown above in his meticulous and magical studio, has printed for photo greats Bruce Davidson and Sid Kaplan, and has an equally stunning collection of his own. His stark, journalistic style is everything great photography should be; honest, compelling and completely real. Martin's photo-retrospective covers scenes from San Fransisco Halloween Parades to small town Vermont with the same understated eye that provokes a thoughtful reflection on their subjects and pure amazement in his technical skill for beautiful archival printing. But before we delve into decades of photo-grandeure, students from AS220's Photographic Memory program will set the stage with a presentation about the creation of the new 2010 calendar. In PhotoMem, young people gain technical training in photography and develop a personal portfolio documenting their own lives as only they can. Our classes held in the RI Training School and at AS220 in downtown Providence engage students who have little or no arts education in their school experience. Photo Mem also offers professional practice by offering committed students the opportunity to assist professional photographers on commercial jobs and the chance to show their fine art photography in gallery settings. This calendar represents a year's worth of work from these very talented young artists who will be speaking Saturday afternoon about their involvement with PhotoMem and AS220's Broad Street Studio. These calendars, which are on sale for $15 each, will help support PhotoMem and AS220 Photo programming. Calendars will be available for sale during the presentation, and are also sold locally at Cellar Stories, Craftland, Cafe LaFrance and online.
This event is FREE and open to all with a healthy interest in the creation of great works of photography, from master printers to fledgling film rollers. Come bask in the glow of photo glory at AS220! 1-4pm this Saturday. Hope to see you there!

Like what you see? Then come to AS220 this Sunday from 4-7 for the opening of Master Printer and Photographer Stewart Martin's career retrospective "Personal Favorites- 1975-2000." We in the Darkroom are thrilled to have Stewart, our friend and ally, present this incredible collection to the public. Want to see more? Then you're in luck, because during this very special show, you will also have the opportunity to see the AS220 Darkroom in one of two tours, given by Darkroom members and staff. This is just the beginning of a two week feast of photographic delights, as Mr.Martin will host an artist talk, joined by students in our Photographic Memory program. But if you ever wondered just what it is that makes photography so special and exactly how this stuff happens, this is the time to find out! This event is FREE and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

"Fresh to Death" was how Anjel Newman ( Broad St Studio Vista and active student since she was 13!) described the 2010 Photographic Memory calendar. Photographic Memory or PhotoMem, is a unique program in which Rhode Island's underserved youth learn the craft of photography while gaining real world experience by working as apprentices to professional photographers. This calendar is the culmination of one year of intensive training and creative discovery. Photo Mem students not only learn the technical complexities of black and white photography, but also how to give voice to their own unique stories. This collection of photos explores a year's worth of themes central to the lives of these students while showing a clear development of practical skills and professional form. The photos were printed in the Paul Krot Community Darkroom in AS220, the only publicly accessible darkroom in Rhode Island. Sales from this calendar will help sustain programming for both Photographic Memory and ensure that the Darkroom at AS220 will remain stocked, open and available for future generations of photographers. Check out this direct link to AS220's easy to use online store!

www.as220.org/shop