Have a current personal project that you have been working on and need some feedback?
Join the ASMP Gallery Committee for a night out of cocktails and critiques. The Gallery committee believes that the best way to combat slow times in business is to get shooting the projects you’ve been meaning to tackle, the things you love, the things that matter. Moderated by Natasha Egan, associate director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Cocktails and Critiques is a group critique, discussion and support session for professional photographers (that’s right everyone else gets to chime in too).
This event will help 6 photographers get from ideas to plans. Egan has juried local and international exhibitions, contributed to essays and teaches at Columbia. The evening will encourage and inspire you to start thinking about your own personal projects and give you the chance to talk and bounce ideas off other photographers in the community.
Cocktails and Critiques is a creative and productive environment where you are encouraged to think consciously about your creative process and connect with your peers within the photography community. Come Mix, Mingle and critique. You do not have to be showing work in order to come.
Want to be one of the seven? These are the requirements for showing your work.
This must be a current body of work. It does not have to be complete; works in progress are just fine for us.
If you are interested in showing work contact Stephanie Graham at missgraham@gmail.com or 847.899.3564
First come first serve basis.
When: August 20, 2009 @ 6:30
Where: Jaks Tap. 901 W Jackson
Cost: No fee, bring friends and have a cocktail with us
Natasha’s Bio:
Natasha Egan is associate director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. Egan has organized dozens of international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; and The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies
