The Barn (Woman’s Art Club Cultural Center) features a selection of Nancy Ford Cones pictorialist photographs (some of her original prints from various archives, and some digital images) alongside contemporary smartphone photos submitted by the public. The general public is invited to respond and reinterpret Cones’s images by submitting their own smartphone photos. These responsive photos were either inspired by her work, expressed a similar intent, or contrasted “then” and “now.” The best submitted photograph will be selected to complement each Cones photograph, resulting in a paired exhibit of early 20th-century pictorialism and early 21st-century “pixelism.”

Submission Deadline: September 18th, 2018
Submission Information: Photo2Foto_08_finalprospectus.pdf

Featured Artists: Kylee Dhonau, Gillian Fajack, Paul Filipkowski, Abby Graham, Christine Kuhr, Gary Long, L Long, Alleen Manning, Maya Mehlman, Aquila Stoner, Joe Stoner, Kimberly Baer-Walk

In #cloudingjudgements, Joel Armor examines his personal collection of cell phone photos and calls on individuals from the surrounding community to examine their own. Armor analyzes the impact that photographic accessibility and infinite storage archives have on each of us, as we repeatedly point and shoot with our phones. Through a variety of outreach programs that include a lecture on memory and mindfulness, a technology detox workshop, and a community-based catalog, participants are asked to consider the effects that these tools impart on our daily psyche, relationships, and personal memory. Armor extends the question into the often invisible and endless archival cloud-based storage system, and the consequences it places on our mental and emotional well-being, as we reconcile the role of hierarchy and space through what he describes as mental hoarding.

Reveal investigates how the order and display of images can make previously unknown (or secret information) known to others. Featuring five artists exploring how photographs—originally intended to tell one story—can be altered by their presentation to reveal another story. The artists expose an intended story, in a specifically designated space, to show how one image can stand on its own or how it “collaborates” with its surroundings to present other revelations. The photographs, when installed together, create an entirely new story presented as part of a larger context. The images compel viewers to interpret the intended story and explore what lies behind the intent. What emotions, ideas, or goals do they project? Does the state of the physical environment matter? Reveal encourages the collection, sorting, and organization of information from the images, and the creation of an individual narrative based on new contexts.

Featured Artists: Sue Milinkovich, Steven Miller, Greg Rust, Jerry Stratton, Dan Wheeler