We’re excited to announce that Devora Gronauer of Hanover, NH is the winner of our raffle for a $100 gift certificate to PHOTOSTOP! She’ll be able to use the certificate for classes or tutoring at PHOTOSTOP within the coming year. Our spring classes and workshops will be listed in late January so stay tuned!
We had a wonderful crowd at our First Friday exhibit opening on Dec.2nd! It was a true party with the amazing photographs of Neal Rantoul, music by JulieVelie, Laura Simon and Bob Vogel, spirits of the season, beautiful hand-made cards and other printed items by Cindy Crawford, Mark Council, Carla Kimball, and Anne Davey, and the energized gallery visitors, who came out in droves to support the arts.
Special kudos to Dave Clark for organizing all the musicians who played throughout White River Junction that night.
THANKS TO ALL FOR SUCH A FUN EVENING!
GALLERY HOURS THROUGH DEC. 22 WED – SAT 12-5PM
Art and gift certificates make great gifts. Shop local, support your community!
Neal Rantoul, a career photographer and director of the Photography Program at Northeastern University in Boston, will be showing his photographs in a show titled “Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, (Oh My!)” at PHOTOSTOP from December 2nd through December 22nd. An opening reception for the artist will be held on December 2nd (a WRJ First Friday) from 5-8 pm with a gallery talk at 6:30 pm. There will be live music, holiday spirits (yes, finally !) and all are invited to attend.
Rantoul previously exhibited his popular wheat field photographs for PHOTOSTOP’S inaugural show, and returns with “Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, (Oh My!)”, comprised of photographs taken in 17 different Cabela’s stores since 2004. The Cabela’s photographs contrast fact and fiction with both beauty and humor. They are both too real to be fake and too fake to be real. The taxidermy and the enacted displays of animals in their habitat comment on the current state of our natural environment and our management of the resources we have.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Rantoul will be doing portfolio reviews of photographers’ works by appointment on December 3rd from 10am – 4pm. A half-hour session with the photographer is available for $50. For registration information, contact Lia at PHOTOSTOP at 802.698.0320.
Rantoul’s work is held in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, and many others. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions, judged many photography competitions, and served on the Board of Directors at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, MA. A monograph of his photographs, “American Series”, was published in 2006. Currently a 30-year retrospective of Neal’s work is on exhibit at Northeastern University through Dec. 5, 2011 and his website is http://www.nealrantoul.com/.
Cards, calendars, and books for sale!
We’re delighted to be offering the beautiful cards and calendars of local photographers Cindy Crawford, Anne Davey, Carla Kimball and Mark Council for sale during our December exhibit starting this Friday, Dec. 2nd. These beautiful images and finely crafted items are perfect for gift giving or for any time of the year. We’ll also have books featuring the photography of Neal Rantoul, Suzanne Opton, Keith Johnson and other photographers available for purchase. Terrific for the photo-loving people in your life!
Thank you Upper Valley! Last night we won an Owl Award for the best art exhibit of 2011 in the Upper Valley for our exhibit of Suzanne Opton’s powerful portraits in her Soldier/Many Wars series during June and July of this year. We are very gratified by this award because the votes were cast by community members. To me, the award demonstrates that gallery visitors appreciate exhibits that leave a lasting impression, are thought-provoking, and sometimes, difficult from an emotional standpoint. Thanks to Suzanne for being willing to show her work here in Vermont, to all those who voted for the exhibit, and to The Complete Hoot publication for sponsoring the award. Lia Rothstein, Director
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/travel/13surfacing.html
Today’s (12.12.09) online edition of the NY Times has a terrific piece about the wonderful cultural community and the terrific eats in White River Junction! It’s great to get this kind of exposure from such an important new source. I’m so glad that PHOTOSTOP is a part of the excitement and on the ”arty side of the tracks” in WRJ!
Loading...