En Foco e-News
December 2007
In This Issue
Mat Cutting Workshop
Residency
Marketing Seminar
Photo Miami
Touring Gallery
Call for Entries
Learn to Cut
Your Own Exhibition Mats!
Marisol leads Mat Cutting Workshop
Thursday,
January 17

Space is limited to 8 participants

Register online
or by calling
718-931-9311
 
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NYC Darkroom Residency
The Camera Club of New York invites emerging photographers, who are not enrolled in college or graduate photo programs, to apply for a three-month residency at its new facility!

Check their website for details

DEADLINE:
December 15
(postmark)

Before the
Year is Over...

Need a Year-End tax-deduction
for 2007? 
We'd be happy to help! 

Your donations help us better serve our photographers, audiences, readers and supporters.

Make your contribution today by calling 718.931.9311 or by clicking HERE
 
NEED EXPERIENCE?
We are now accepting applications for
 Editorial and
Curatorial Interns

Email [email protected]
to request the internship description
 
Greetings!

Our auction last month was a wonderful success! Thank you to all who made Depth of Field, our First Benefit Auction such a special and meaningful evening.

December is also a busy month don't miss out on the last chance to register for M.V. Swanson's marketing seminar this Saturday, and treat yourself or a loved one to a beautiful and carefully crafted print from our Print Collectors Program - it is the holiday season after all!

Happy Holidays from the En Foco Team,
Miriam, Marisol, Janine
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER:
Marketing Seminar with Mary Virginia Swanson
Mary Virgina Swanson

Always wanted to learn tips on approaching galleries or curators? Are there marketing practices that work better than others? Come find out!

Register NOW!
$50 Members
$95 Non-Members

Date: Saturday, December 8th
9:30am - 1:30pm

Location: New York University/
TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, New York, NY 10003
(Security needs a list of all registrants allowed entrance to the building - so if you've been procrastinating on signing up, do so now!)

Cost includes Mary Virginia' book The Business of Photography: Principles and Practices (2007), a $45 value!
Nueva Luz at Photo Miami
Nueva Luz 12:2
Stop by and Meet the Artists!

Executive Director and Editor, Miriam Romais will be at the booth at Photo Miami along with Carola Dreidemie, Lola Flash and Tony Chirinos.

Location: Wynwood Art District  
NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33127   

Dates:
December 6th, 10am - 7pm   
December 7th, 10am - 7pm   
December 8th, 10am - 7pm   
December 9th, 10am - 6pm


Cover photo: Carola Dreidemie, Nueva Luz 12#2.
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THREE MORE DAYS: 

Enid Alvarez's exhibition,
Puerto Rico,
closes on December 9

Location: Pregones Theater
571-575 Walton Avenue
(between 149th & 150th)
Bronx, NY 10451 718/585-1202

For more details click here.
Call for Entries
 
The Society for Photographic Education's Multicultural Caucus invites submissions of photo and video work for the exhibition to take place in Denver, Colorado, during the National SPE Conference March of 2008. All are welcome to apply.
 
DEADLINE: December 31 (MUST arrive by that date,
so just pretend the deadline is the day after Christmas)


Juror: Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director, The Center for Photography at Woodstock.

TO APPLY: Send up to 6 Jpegs (max dimension 720 pixels in its largest dimension), an artist statement, and a short bio of no more than 5 sentences, via e-mail to [email protected]. Include full contact information, and website.
 
You may also mail your entry to: Carola Dreidemie, Photography and Electronic Media, Art and Art History Department, University of Miami, 1540 Levante Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33146-2618.
En Foco is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage. Founded in 1974, it achieves its mission by introducing artists to local communities and a national audience, creating a cultural synergy with the public, curators and arts professionals through exhibitions, publications, workshops and events.

Programs are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the NALAC Fund for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Association of Hispanic Arts, JP Morgan Chase, Daniele Agostino De Rossi Foundation, Lowepro, Bogen, Fuji Film, WNYC.org, members, subscribers and friends.