Call for Participants
NeMe, the Semiotics and Visual Communications Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Cyprus Photographic Society (Limassol Branch) are launching this open call for workshops participants from the arts, design, technology, other disciplines, and the general public.
The two workshops, Drawing with Light, will be focusing on cameraless photography and will be led by Los Angeles based artist, Sheila Pinkel. Participants will make cameraless images in both the darkroom and sunlight. They will also be encouraged to use whatever media they have access to in order to represent the flora of Cyprus and its meaning in our lives.
As darkroom space is limited there is a limit of 8 participants per group:
- Group 1: Saturday September 9th & Saturday September 16th, 10am until 5pm (lunch break 1pm – 2:30pm)
- Group 2: Sunday September 10th & Sunday 17th, 10am until 5pm (lunch break 1pm – 2:30pm)
Additional darkroom time can be arranged if required.
Those interested should call on 25-372675 to reserve a place by 7 September 2017.
The workshops will be in English and participation is free of charge.
Selected results from these workshops will be included in the exhibition Phenomenological Lightworks at the NeMe Arts Centre (30/09/2017 until 25/10/2017) and the exhibition publication.
Sheila Pinkel is a professor emeritus at the Pomona College, the international editor of Leonardo Journal, the chair of Leonardo LABS and a renowned artist with many awards including: Society for Photographic Honored Educator Western Region (2016), Asian Studies award (2010), Mellon Award (1998), Center for the Studies of Political Graphics Hammer Award (1996), Artist of the Year, City of Santa Monica (1988), Westwood Art Association Annual Award (1977).
Her work is in over 100 public collections which includes the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; MOCA Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Musee national d’art modern, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Federal Reserve, Washington, DC; Seattle Museum of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; California State University Northridge Art Museum, Northridge, CA; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; Huntington Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA; Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, CA; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KA; St. Louis University Art Museum, St. Louis, MI; Syracuse University Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas; Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA; Sears Art Museum, Di xie State University, St. George, Utah; Orlando Museum of Art, St. Petersburg, FL; Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts; University of Alabama Birmingham, AL; Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI.