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Three of the photographs I submitted to the Carnegie Center for the Arts 2020 Regional Juried Arts Competition have been accepted by the jurors and will be featured in this year's exhibit.

One of the three is Cosmic Egg - a chicken egg straight from the fridge, and one of my favorite photos for 2019:

The other two accepted works are Summer Solstice (see the post directly below this one) and Bad Axe Barn.

Based out of Three Rivers, Michigan, the Carnegie Center sponsors this competition for artists living in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana. It’s open to works in all media. As an annual event with several years of history, this show always brings out excellent work from the area. This year's show opened on January 19 and will close on February 19, 2020.

The 2019 Signature Artists gallery opens Sunday, December 1! This marks Signature's 40th seasonal gallery in the Kalamazoo area. We are at a new location this year at the Carillon Center, 6800 South Westnedge Suite M (next to Qdoba). Doors open at 12 noon on December 1.

The Opening reception will be Sunday, December 8 - stop by and meet the artists.

Here's one of the new pieces I will be exhibiting - Summer Solstice, a digital infrared landscape shot in June.

One of my photos has been accepted into the Maryland Federation of Art's 2019 American Landscapes: Scenes From The America's exhibition. The accepted photo is Expectation, shot in the summer of 2018. The exhibit runs from August 22 to September 21, 2019 at the Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland, 21401.

Two of my photos have been accepted into the Maryland Federation of Art's 2018 American Landscapes: Scenes From The America's exhibition. The accepted photos are Pine In Winter Fog (2018) and Sentinel (2016):

The exhibit opens on August 23 with a reception and awards presentation on September 9, 2018. The exhibit will be at MFA Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401. More info - plus a digital preview gallery -  can be found here.

Three of the photographs I submitted to the Carnegie Center for the Arts 2018 Regional Juried Arts Competition have been accepted by the jurors and will be featured in this year's exhibit. The selected photographs are shown below, all part of the Botanical Studies series. 

Based out of Three Rivers, Michigan, the Carnegie Center sponsors this competition for artists living in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana. It’s open to works in all media. As an annual event with several years of history, this show always brings out excellent work from the area. This year's show opened on January 21 and will close on February 17, 2018.

The three pieces I submitted to the exhibit are:

Just dropped off three pieces at the Battle Creek Art Center for the Signature Artists group show "Beyond Boundaries."  

The show will run from June 4-24 at the Art Center of Battle Creek, 265 E Emmett St, Battle Creek, MI 49017. Artists' Reception will this Sunday, June 4, from 2-4PM.

I interpreted "boundaries" as the technical things that you do to make photographs - aperture, shutter speed, etc. - so to get beyond them I broke out the Holgas which don't let you do much with settings. And then I tried to take photos that included boundaries - like the a ditch or the fog lines on a highway. Shot in March / early April.

Here are the three pieces I entered for the show, plus the post card / annoucement:

Preparations for the 2016 Signature Gallery are underway! The gallery will open Saturday, November 26 with the Artist Reception on Sunday, November 26 from noon to 5 PM. We are at the same great location as last year - 4602 West Main Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006.

This year I will be fully participating in the gallery and will have a large selection of framed prints, matted prints and note cards.

Learn more about Signature at signature-artist.com

Here is a sample of some of the new pieces I'll be exhibiting at the gallery this year:

I am happy to announce that two of my photos will be exhibited in the 2016 American Landscapes exhibition hosted by the Maryland Federation of Art.

My two accepted pieces are Muddy Back Roads, a photo made in January of this year:

And October Morning, from October 2014:

This year's exhibit will run from August 12 through September 10, 2016 at the MFA Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401. The juror this year is Liza Key Strelka, Manager of Exhibitions at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

An online preview of the exhibit can be found here. More information about this and other MFA exhibits can be found at mdfedart.com.