Call for Work: The Carrack Community Show

The Carrack is one of the most unique art spaces in the Triangle, or most anywhere else for that matter. Two or three times a year The Carrack hosts a one week community show where any artist can drop off work. There is no entry gee or jurying process. Just bring your work, and if it meets the requirements (and not very stringent ones!) it will hang. Does it get much more better than that? I don't think so.

This image was exhibited in a gallery earlier this year. It could be exhibited again
at the Carrack this June if I dropped it off.
(c) Ray Pfeiffer

The next community show will be in June 2016. To participate, artists must deliver their work on Sunday, June 12, between 12pm and 5pm. The exhibit will open with a reception on June 17, during Third Friday in Durham and remain on view through June 25th. Pick up will be Sunday June 26th between 12pm and 5pm.

For more information on The Carrack and to participate in the community show, go to The Carrack website here.

Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to see and be seen. And for the one-of-a-kind experience that is The Carrack!

The Impossible Project Announces a New Instant Camera

Analogue and instant, the best combination since peanut butter and chocolate, has something new to celebrate: The Impossible Project’s I-1 instant camera.  Designed to use the Impossible 600-type instant film, the camera itself is a riff on the long lamented Polaroid 600 series camera and film. As simple to use as the original Polaroid 600, the camera has features that could have only been dreamed of when the original debuted some 30 years ago.

 

The future of instant photography

As befitting a camera for the 21^st century, there are few controls on the camera itself, but with an iOS app via Bluetooth, you are able to control shutter speed, aperture, control flash, and select from one of several presets.

Scheduled to be released May 10^th the I-1 will retail for $299. A small price to pay for real instant gratification.

For more information check out the Impossible Project website here.

 

 

 

Celebrate the 4th Annual Film Photography Day!

Today is Film Photography Day!

Celebrate by rummaging out your old analogue gear, drop in a roll of film and have some fun. No need to click along like the rest of the crowd. Shooting film is what all the cool kids do.

(c) Ray Pfeiffer
This image was made with film. And with a plastic camera besides!

And even if mom & dad always warned you about running with a different crowd, they would surely approve of this. After all, mom or dad probably had a film camera themselves. So pay homage to parents all the world over and shoot some film today. (Actually, you can shoot film any day you would like. Doing it today just makes it extra special!)

You'll feel better if you do.

Trust us. We wouldn't kid about something like this. We have film cameras ourselves...

Call for Work: Litmus Gallery - Exposed: Nudes in Art

Litmus Gallery is excited to extend an invitation to all artists to submit works in any 2-D or 3-D media, of any style or genre (abstract, conceptual, highly realistic, etc.), for consideration in the Litmus Gallery seventh annual Exposed: Nudes in Art, a competitive exhibit exploring various treatments of the nude, semi-nude, and implied nude human form in modern art.

Exposed: Nudes in Art, is a juried exhibition to showcase outstanding original visual art. It is open to both professional and emerging artists who are 18 years of age or older using visual media. Artists may submit for consideration up to three (3) works not previously exhibited at Litmus Gallery. 2-D and 3-D art will be selected for this exhibition. All works must be for sale.

Deadline for entries is: April 11, 2016

Litmus Gallery does not charge an entry fee to submit art for consideration for this show. A fee is only collected only from those selected to be in the show.

For more information and to submit your entries, go here.

100 Photographs, 100 Windows, 100 Days

On April 9th, 2016, Nash Street, the Main Street of Wilson, North Carolina will be transformed again into a vibrant gallery of large-scale photographs. One hundred prominent and emerging photographers from more than 30 countries will join forces to help revitalize Historic Downtown Wilson.

The exhibition, curated by Jerome De Perlinghi and co-curated by Catherine Lloyd and Regina Monfort, will focus on the theme of "Main Street, a Crossroads of Cultures" as interpreted by the individual photographers. "Photographers do not need words as they write with light", says De Perlinghi who also serves as artistic director of the festival.

One hundred images will be displayed in storefront windows, spanning six city blocks. The festival is open day and night, and this year will run through July 10, 2016. The Kick-Off Street Party will be on April 9th, from 5pm to 8pm at the corners of Nash and Douglass Streets. There will also be a number of other festivities throughout the 100 days of the festival. For more information check out the festival website here.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience photographic art in a unique setting. Historic Wilson, NC is about an hour, or less, from downtown Raleigh.