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aeqai archives

September | 2012

Lowell Nickel, Flotsam Clusters, 2012. Image published by LACDA. (Related image located during this archive's reconstruction.) (Digitally enhanced. May contain discrepancies from the original artwork.)
September 21st, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

LACDA 2012 INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION

Enter our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44×60 inches on museum quality paper (approximately a $2,500-$3,000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in our main gallery....

The Esquire Theatre, Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the screening venues for the ReelAbilities Film Festival. Photograph, 2007, by Keith Lanser, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. (Related image located during this archive's reconstruction.)
September 21st, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

Hatton Foundation Joins Local Nonprofits in Bringing National Film Festival to Cincinnati

$25,000 Gift to help fund ReelAbilities: Cincinnati Disability Film Festival
A gift from the Hatton Foundation will be contributing toward bringing a national film festival, focused on films by and about individuals with disabilities, to Cincinnati. Founded in 2007 in New York, ReelAbilities is the largest national film festival dedicated to sharing the stories, lives and art of people with disabilities....

Jane Alden Stevens, Orchard and Mt. Iwaki, Spring, Aomori Prefecture, from the series Seeking Perfection: Traditional Apple Growing in Japan (2006–2009), exhibited in Landscapes of the Mind at the YWCA Women’s Art Gallery. Photograph from the artist’s website. (Related image located during this archive's reconstruction.)
September 19th, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

YWCA “Landscapes of the Mind” press release

“Landscapes of the Mind” offers an historical look into how metaphor, archetype and symbol weave together to transcend ordinary reality in three stylistically different photographic art projects created at 20-year intervals. The YWCA Women’s Art Gallery is proud to present this exhibit as part of the inaugural FotoFocus celebration...

Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, Ohio
September 19th, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

Fitton Center lectures/discussions (Sept 19)

Arts & Community – Fall 2012
Greetings!
The Fitton Center for Creative Arts and the Michael J. Colligan History Project are partnering for a series of discussions about the role of the arts in Hamilton’s past and future. All events are free and open to the public...

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
September 19th, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

FARGO HOUSE project

Greetings!
I am happy to announce the launch of the FARGO HOUSE project in Buffalo, which aims to invigorate the collective imagination of place through built projects, workshops, exhibitions and residency opportunities. As part of the project, I have officially begun my residency as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s 2012...

Walt Burton
September 15th, 2012 | By Jane Durrell

Profile of Walt Burton

It’s probably inaccurate to call Walt Burton a gadfly, even though a run-down of his career might suggest that. He’s been a photographer, a dealer in historic photographs, a teacher, a guest lecturer, produced books (two of them autobiographical) and now, after two strokes and a heart attack, is making startling prints based on collages and has published a book devoted to these works...

Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511, fresco, Vatican Museums. Image from Wikimedia Commons. (Related image located during this archive's reconstruction.)
September 15th, 2012 | By Jay Zumeta

Historical Perspectives on Aesthetics

The ancient Greeks were the pioneers in establishing the fundamentals of many areas of human inquiry. They were the first to write history in an analytical sense. Likewise, in philosophy, mathematics, and science the Greeks believed that human intelligence could explain the unknown...

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Photograph by Sam Shaw.
September 15th, 2012 | By Daniel Brown

Summers in Connecticut with Marilyn Monroe

Since this is the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, and since her fame continues to grow ( a new twist includes some feminist writers claiming her as one of theirs ex post facto), aeqai is reprinting an article I wrote in 2004 and was picked up by Weston (Conn.) Monthly, where the incidents in the memoir actually took place...