En Foco e-News
February 2008
In This Issue
March 8 Workshop
Nueva Luz Launch
Artist Talks & Opening Reception
SPE
Want Your Work to be Seen?
MARCH 8
Join  us for our FREE workshop, open to all emerging
photographers:
so go get your

FOOT IN THE DOOR

click the link for details
RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY
Rotunda Gallery Logo
BRIC Rotunda Gallery and BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access Television offer a joint video residency opportunity for Brooklyn-based artists.

DEADLINE:
March 3
 
Previous experience in video or multimedia is not required, since training can be part of the residency.
 
Click here for details
 
QMA

Open Call for
Spiritual Flushing: A Photography Project
DEADLINE:
March 10


The Queens Museum of Art is looking for
photographers who have shot religious sites/festivals/events in Flushing,
Queens. The project is dedicated to religious freedom.
For details contact
curintern@
queensmuseum.org
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FotoFest 2008
The Twelfth International Biennial Month of Photography:

 March 7 - April 20

Portfolio Reivews, Exhibits and events throughout Houston, of classical and contemporary photography, new media work, installations, film, video and documentaries.

Greetings!

We're proud to annouce the 40th issue of Nueva Luz will be released next week. To celebrate, we're heving a series of upcoming events that you don't want to miss! Read on to find out about the artist talks, opening reception, and upcoming workshops.

We'll be hitting the road again in March to review portfolios at FotoFest in Houston, and then off to Denver to attend the national Society for Photographic Education conference. Hope you can join us!

The En Foco Team,
Miriam, Marisol, Janine
New Issue!

Nueva Luz Volume 12#3 Hits the Stands
Nueva Luz 12:3

Featuring work by
  • Myra Greene
  • Mart�n Weber
  • Hee Jin Kang
with a commentary by
Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock
  • Check out Valdir Cruz's new work and book, O Caminho das �guas (published by Cosac Naify), with an upcoming exhibition at Throckmorton Fine Arts
  • Inside peek at the New Works #11 winners and honorable mention awardees
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En Foco's Touring Gallery presents:

Myra Greene and Sama Alshaibi


Photo by Sama Alshaibi
Join us for a series of events with Greene and Alshaibi, and gain a personal insite as to how politics, history and race have influenced their work:

ARTIST TALK:
Saturday March 1, 5:30-7:00
at Peer Gallery
526 West 26th Street, # 209
New York, NY 10001
(Nueva Luz will be available for signing!)


EXHIBITION:
Dates: March 1- April 5
Meet the Artists Reception: Monday March 3, 6:00-800pm
at Umbrella Arts + Projects
317 East 9th Street
New York, NY 10003


For details click here

Photo by: Sama Alshaibi, Olives from Gaza.
Visit us at the national SPE Conference!

SPECome visit En Foco and Light Work's booth in the Vendor area at the Society for Photographic Education's national conference, March 13-16th

Join
Miriam Romais (En Foco), Hannah Frieser (Light Work), Ariel Shanberg (CPW) for IN THE MIX: a panel discussion on Opportunities for Photographers of Color on FRIDAY, MARCH 14 at 1pm

We're looking for artists and writers for future issues of Nueva Luz, so please bring a CD of your portfolio and introduce yourself!


Location: Adam's Mark Hotel
1550 Court Place, Denver, CO 80202

For details click here
REQUEST FOR SOLO EXHIBITIONS

The Organization of Puerto Rican Artists is currently seeking artists to fill its 2008-2009 Solo Exhibition Schedule at:

THE  NUYORICAN POETS CAF� in the Lower East Side and LA TAZA DE ORO in Chelsea for their ongoing bi-monthly exhibitions. Artists in every media are invited to apply.

CONTACT:
Luis Carle  email: [email protected] 
or Reyes Melendez email [email protected]
www.op-art.org
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 with the Ford Foundation and JP Morgan Chase, Daniele Agostino De Rossi Foundation, Lowepro, Bogen, Fuji Film, WNYC.org, members, subscribers and friends.