En Foco e-News
March 2008
In This Issue
Grant Opportunity
Opportunity for Women Photographers
NYPH Photo Award
Educational Conference
March 8 Workshop
Opening Reception
En Foco on the Road
Tax Assistance

The Franklin Furnace Fund
Grant Opportunity
DEADLINE:
April 1


Project grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to emerging avant-garde artists from all areas of the world, to present their art in New York.
For details click here.
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Call for Entries

DEADLINE:
April 1

Resurrection: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes
May 2 - 31, 2008
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Curator,
Laura Moya, director of Photolucida
 
For details click here.
Call for women photographers
DEADLINE:
April 4

Juror: Roy DeCarava, Hunter College

Exhibition The Pen and Brush, Inc. (New York)
Open to Women  Photographers from any country.

For a prospectus, send a SASE to:
Photography, The Pen and Brush, 16  E. 10th St., New York, NY, 10003

Email questions to  info@penandbrush.org
 
 
NYPH

New York Photo Awards

DEADLINE: April 14
The official awards of the New York Photo Festival. Honoring talented photographers from all over the world!

For submission details click here.

Check Out!
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The Hi-ways and Buy-ways of the Picture Professional Industry an Educational Conference in Phoenix, Arizona


For details click here.
 
Greetings!

March is buzzing with activity and we have started off with a bang! There was a full house at the Artist Talk as well as at the Opening Reception. Thank you to the artists, Sama and Myra, PEER Gallery, Umbrella Arts and Casa de Vinos for making these events great.

Don't miss this Saturday's FREE workshop for information on how to submit your work. This week we also will be at Fotofest in Houston, and next at SPE in Denver.
Stop by and see us!


The En Foco Team,
Miriam, Marisol, Janine
Get Your Foot in the Door!

Are you an emerging photographer and want to get noticed?

Attend our FREE one hour workshop on tips for submitting your work, facilitated by Marisol Díaz, Program Director of En Foco and Carucha L. Meuse, Staff Photographer, The Journal News.

Date: Saturday, March 8th

Time: 1:00 pm

Location: PWP at Chelsea Gallery Space 508 West 26th Street (near 10th Ave), Suite 9E New York, NY

For more details click here.
Meet the Artist Reception
Myra Greene and Sama Alshaibi


TG Umbrella Arts Opening
Thank you to all who came out Monday night for the Opening Reception at Umbrella Arts.

If you were unable to attend the reception there is still time to stop by and see these beautiful images.



On view now through April 5

Umbrella Arts + Projects
317 East 9th Street
New York, NY 10003


For details click here

Photo by: Miriam Romais
En Foco is on the road!

First Stop FOTOFEST Houston.Fotofest

March 7 - April 20

Portfolio Reivews with Miriam Romais March 7-10. Also check out the exhibits and events throughout Houston, of classical and contemporary photography, new media work, installations, film, video and documentaries.

 For details on Fotofest click here.


Next Stop SPE in Denver


En Foco and Light Work's booth in theSPE 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
Tax time is upon us!

Check out these three great FREE opportunities to get all your questions answered!

Tax Preparation Tips for Artists and Immigrants:
Everything You Always
Wanted to Know
But Were Afraid to Ask!!

Date: March 7th, from 5-8 pm
Location: New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Sixth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York City

RSVP: adavies@nyfa.org

-AND-

Free Tax Workshop
Date: March 12th, from 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Longwood Gallery @ Hostos 
149th and the Grand Concourse, Bronx NY

"Artist Tax Day". On that day, ARIVA volunteers specially trained in the tax issues pertinent to artists will be available to prepare tax returns for qualified individuals.
Date: March 22, 10-4pm
Location: ARIVA 69 East 167th Street, 2nd Floor -South Bronx

For details visit http://www.bronxarts.org/. (scroll down)
New Jersey's Largest Photographic Educational Conference

Dates: April 4-6

Location: Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
68 Elm Street
, Summit, NJ

A weekend full of panel discussions, notable speakers, workshops and lectures.

For more details click here.
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.