Environmental Impact Exhibition Continues to Travel

Three of my photographs continue to travel with the Environmental Impact exhibition. Currently the photographs are on view at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY. Next stop is at the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA.

Black Box Gallery – On-Line Annex Exhibition

Check out one of my photograph in the Dreams: Illusion and Fantasy online gallery here. If you are in Portland, Oregon visit the Black Box Gallery to view the print exhibition!

See the world inside a camera!

If you are not doing anything fun on May 10th, why don't you register for the Camera Obscura workshop with KCDC? Learn about the history behind the camera obscura and construct one using mostly recycle materials. To find out more click here.

Location: Nature Lab
Date: May 10th at tba
Cost: FREE!!!

The Magic Treats!

My dog Tanner would had gone bananas if he had been part of this magic trick. I miss him.

Boundaries: The Permeability of Social Constructs

In a few weeks, I am headed back to Lincoln, Nebraska to attend the Midwest Society of Photographic Education conference. I couldn't be more thrilled to be going because 1) Dana Fritz and Larry Gawel are hosting the photo conference. They were both my undergraduate professors and continue to be incredible mentors. 2) Two photographs from the "Becoming Edible" series are part of the Boundaries exhibition. This photography show is curated by Chadric Devin, one of the graduate photography students at UNL.

If you haven't register for the MWSPE conference you need to do it soon! There isn't going to be registration on site. Click here to register!

Click here to read more about the Boundaries Exhibition.

Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
Richards Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m.

A MWSPE reception will be held on Oct. 26 from 6-8 p.m.

FotoDC Bazaar - A Pop Up Gallery in NOMA

Tonight I am participating at the FotoDC Bazaar. If you are in DC, come out to check out thousands of photographs! There is an opening party tonight from 6:30 to 9:30pm. The work will also be on view over the weekend for free from 11am to 6pm.

The above photo is from the installation day a few days ago. I hope to see you there. :)

Location:
51 N Street NE
Washington, DC 20002

Friday, October 4th hours: 6:30 to 9:30pm
Saturday & Sunday hours: 11am to 6pm

The work will be on view from October 4th to the 6th.

Natural Flavor Mystery "Solved"

The "natural" flavors ingredient on food labels are a mystery. However, a blogger made a hilarious video about beaver's butt being one of the secret ingredients? Yes, beaver butt! Click here to watch and laugh.

Environmental Impact Exhibition

Getting ready one of the "Circus: A Guilty Pleasure?" photographs for the Environmental Impact Exhibition curated by David J. Wagner. I am looking forward for my three photographs to travel the country for a couple of years! First stop, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH from September 1 to October 31, 2013. Click here to read more about the exhibition.

The Chimera Series | F-Stop Magazine

Click here to check out the Chimera series featured in the latest issue of F-Stop Magazine.

UW-Milwaukee MA / MFA blurb book

MA / MFA 2013 | Department of Art & Design | Make Your Own Book

My MFA Thesis Exhibition: Becoming Edible

UW-Milwaukee Spring MA/MFA Exhibition

One last week to check out the MA/MFA exhibition at the Art Center Gallery, Second Floor of the Art building (UW-Milwaukee Campus).

Gallery Hours:
Monday-Thursday 10am-5pm
Saturday&Sunday 12pm-5pm

Creatures at The Kiernan Gallery

I am happy to announce that one of my photographs made it into the online gallery for the Creatures exhibition at the Kiernan Gallery. Click here to view my work and that of many talented photographers. The work will also be included in a catalog. More details to come. If you are in the Lexington, VA area you should check out the main gallery exhibition opening February 27th. 

One Piece at a Time: David Hockney

Click here to read a short write-up I did on David Hockney's “Christopher Isherwood Talking to Bob Holman, 1983, Santa Monica” for Third Coast Digest.

The In-Sight Photography Project: 14th Annual Exhibit and Silent Auction

Place a bid! There are hundreds of prints. Including one of my photographs from the Chimera Series. For more information about my work go to diana-sanchez.com . My favorite print is from Duane Michals. Any one want to buy it for me? ;)

Link to place bid on my work: http://auction.insight-photography.org/diana-sanchez/

Madam Mim & Merlin

A sorceress duel between Madam Mim and Merlin is about to take place. Madam Mim says, "First rule is no vegetables... no minerals. Second rule is no animals that don't exist... like dragons. Third rule, it is prohibited to become invisible." Merlin responds with "Third rule it is not to cheat." Of course Madam Mim cheats right away by becoming invisible and then turning into a crocodile. Merlin strikes back by turning into a turtle, which saves his life because the crocodile misses catching the tiny body of a turtle with its mouth. However, once the turtle is on the ground, it is too slow to run away from a two legged walking crocodile.

The following scenes are "cliches" of the ways we think of animals, as well as it talks about animals eating other animals. My favorite is when Madam Mim as an elephant is scared of the Merlin as a mouse. I wonder how we came about thinking elephants are scared of mice? The best part is that the sorceress dual ends with Merlin becoming chickenpox (the tiniest of animals) and makes Madam Mim's body sick.

Hidden River Art Festival - Wilson Center for the Arts - Emerging Artists Gallery - Sep. 14 - 16

Noche de Arte - Milwaukee Public Library

The Nonhuman Turn Conference

Last week a conferences about nonhumans took place  at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I listen to a couple of talks that were difficult to understand as they were very philosophical.  In the plenary with Jane Bennett, "Systems and Things: a materialist and an object-oriented philosopher walk into a bar..," my mind wondered a lot, but I appreciated when she said that the categories of "good" and "evil" need to be reconsidered. I too believe that people, objects, nature, etc., cannot be categorize that easily. In the Q&A, Bennett also grabbed my attention when she mentioned that we need to understand ourselves as being more than just human. To think of ourselves as worms, metals... because this will help to a more sustainable society that affects less bodies (both animate & inanimate).

The panel on "Animal" was lovely. Marilyn Cooper presented Talking with Animals. Cooper told a story of a wildlife photographer encounter with a leopard seal. For some reason, the leopard brought different degrees of "dying" penguin bodies to the photographer... maybe as gifts? But I wonder if they were a sign to what could happen to the photographer if he got too close. Either way, the leopard seal was communicating with the photographers through gesture. Cooper contrasted this story, with one about two humans trying to communicate through their broken English. The two people used English words in an order that did not make any sense. Both cases of communication were left unclear. But Cooper made a point that animals communicate between each other and with others. 

The next person up was Donovan Schaefer, who presented, Compulsory Affectivity: Affect, Animality, and the Nonhuman Turn. Schaefer talked about isolation is a form of torture to argue that we need affect in our lives... or was he saying that about animals? His talk, to me, was interesting in that most of the time I was not sure if he talked about an animal or a human. Shaefer mentioned that we need to touch to feel affect, and that isolation is torture because there isn't anything to touch or feel or make connections. His talk is still lingering in my mind.  Mostly because it made me think if of animal habitats in zoos... and how all the artifice stuff and the outdoor (soil, bushes, grass, trees) in the space is helpful to the animals because of the texture. I would love to read his paper again to break it down more.

The plenary ended with James K. Stanescu, Animals, Assemblage, and Abstraction: Towards a Dark Ethics before opening to Q&A. Stanescu talk was just as informative and great as the first two. I like his idea abstraction will bring us back to the animal. Stanescu talk reminded me of Mullan and Marvin, Animal Skins because it reminds me that "animal" is a cultural construct, and we have to be careful on how we respond to animal. This is another paper that I would love to read to break down more. 

A Musical Zoo Elephant