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Dec e-News
December, 2009
In This Issue
Nueva Luz wins two Ippies Awards!
Holiday Party!! Dec 17
New Works #13 Winners
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Greetings!

You deserve a party, and we're happy to oblige!

Join us for a Holiday Fiesta & Artist's Gift Shop, in collaboration with Michael Mazzeo Gallery on December 17th! Share a drink, good conversation, great company, and even get your holiday shopping done! Details below.

We're also thrilled to announce the very deserving awardees of New Works #13, and Nueva Luz's latest award.

We hope to see you on Thursday!
Miriam, Marisol, Daniel, Olga, Kl�ra and Dee

NUEVA LUZ Wins a 2009 IPPIES AWARD!

Nueva Luz 13:1 - 13:3Nueva Luz is a proud recipient of the NY Community Media Alliance's 2009 Ippies Awards! The Ippies is the only award in NYC that honors reporting by ethnic and community press.

1st Place, Best Photo Essay:
Rania Matar, for The Forgotten People series (Nueva Luz vol 13#3), portraying the dignity, and hope of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

2nd Place, Best Photo Essay:
Chuy Benitez for his Houston Cultura series (Nueva Luz vol 13#3), highlighting the change in Houston's population as Latino and Mexican Americans become the city's new majority.

Rania's work is also featured this month in Of Note magazine!

En Foco's Holiday Fiesta - December 17

En Foco, in collaboration with Michael Mazzeo Gallery, invites you to our Holiday Fiesta -- a cocktail party and celebration of artists!

photo by Myra Greene, untitled, Character Recognition series
  • View works by select artists from the gallery's "Arbor" exhibition, as well as select En Foco artists;
  • Buy a door prize ticket to win an original print from En Foco's Print Collectors Program;
  • Shop for unique gifts for the holidays: original prints priced up to $50 by Muema Lombe, Helena de Vengoechea, Lola Flash, Anjali Bhargava, Rojelio Reyes Rodriguez, Enid Alvarez, Marisol D�az, Miriam Romais, Frank Gimpaya; and signed books by Deborah Wilis, Rania Matar;
  • And most importantly, a chance to enjoy each others company. After all, we all deserve to celebrate and nurture our creative passions!
The suggested minimum donation of $10 will help support En Foco's programs. You can donate safely online at www.enfoco.org (the Network for Good logo on the right hand side), or at the door.

DECEMBER 17, 6-9pm
526 West 26th Street, Suite 209 (btwn 10th & 11th Ave)
New York, NY

PLEASE RSVP: [email protected]

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Your tax-deductible donation is greatly appreciated!

New Works #13 - Winning Artists Announced!
� Karen Miranda Rivadeneira
Congratulations to the Artists of New Works #13
 
We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions selected by Juror Anne Tucker (Museum of Fine Arts/Houston), for En Foco's 13th New Works Photography Fellowship Awards.

Winners
� Wendel White
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira
Wendel A. White

Honorable Mentions
Rebecca Martinez
Samantha Box
Dean Dempsey

Stay tuned for more information about their exhibition, coming soon!

Thank you to all whom applied for New Works #13, we enjoyed reviewing all the work that was submitted.

Photos: (top) Karen Miranda Rivadeneira; (bottom) Wendel White.
Opportunities & Grants

New Orleans Photo Alliance's The American Dream
Deadline: December 14 (Juror: Deborah Willis)

Examiner.com's Faces & Places of the World
Deadline: December 16

PDN Photo Annual
Deadline: December 21 (En Foco is one of the jurors!)

Rayko's Call for Entries
Deadline: Varies

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship in African-American Studies
Deadline: January 11

PhotoInduced.com's Lets do Lunch
Deadline: January 20


Center's Project Competition
Deadline: January 27

Center's Project Launch
Deadline: January 27

Vermont Photography Workplace's Uncommon Portraits
Deadline: February 1

Public Art Fund's In the Public Realm
Deadline: February 16





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