FotoFest Announces New Web Presence
Over the past several months, FotoFest has been making several significant
updates to its Website: a Headlines page, with the latest news on FotoFest programs;
image galleries
featuring work from FotoFest's 2004 - Water exhibitions and a new section,
Successes of the Meeting Place that
will list exhibitions and other news from past
Meeting Place registrants.
In the coming weeks the website will be updated with reports and photographs
from FotoFest in Mexico, France, Brazil, the U.K., and Russia. FotoFest's educational program,
Literacy Through Photography has instituted an online message board especially for LTP teachers to communicate with each other and FotoFest staff.
These updates and others are part of an overall revamping of the FotoFest website that will continue through the coming months.
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FotoFest Exhibits at
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
FotoFest has organized four exhibitions for Russia's Moscow
Museum of Modern Art,
| The Classical Eye - George Krause |
| Arcadia and The Protracted Image |
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MANUAL (Ed Hill & Suzanne Bloom) |
| Selections from FotoFest 1990 - 2002 |
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Pavel Banka (Czech Republic), Nelson Garrido (Venezuela), Wu Jialin (China), Atta Kim (Korea), Chema Madoz (Spain), Abelardo Morrell (USA-Cuba), Vicki Ragan (USA), Pentti Sammalahti (Finland), Neil Maurer (USA), Hans Christian Schink (Germany), Anna Ullrich (USA), Kathy Vargas (USA), Oliver Wasow (USA) |
| Discoveries of FotoFest 1996 - 2002 |
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Mark Asnin (USA), Torben Eskerod (Denmark), Deborah Hammond (USA), Paula Luttringer (Argentina), Annu Matthew (USA-India), Philippe Pache (Switzerland), Erasmus Schroeder (Germany), and Frank Yamrus (USA)
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The majority
of the work is being shown in Russian for the first time and
represents 24 artists from 11 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin
America and the United States.
The exhibitions in Moscow are presented as a part of an ongoing
collaboration between FotoFest and Russian curators Evgeny Berezner
and Irina Tchemyreva of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In the
summer of 2003, these exhibitions were exhibited at the Samara
Museum of Art, Samara, Russia.
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FotoFest LTP Awarded NEA Grant
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FotoFest was awarded $60,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts for
FotoFest's development of new Literacy Through Photography (LTP) curricula and
its collaboration with Project GRAD Houston. The two-year grant supports development
and implementation of two important LTP curricula – a digital curriculum to teach students
how to use computer-based equipment to produce visual art for the LTP program; and a
special adaptation of the LTP curriculum for ESL (English as a Second Language) students.
Over a two-year period, FotoFest and Project GRAD’s Fine Arts Program will train teachers
from the Jefferson Davis High School Feeder Pattern with the current and newly developed
LTP curricula. The programs will provide visits by artists and writers to participating
classrooms, establish new permanent exhibition areas in two public schools, and provide
four public art events for the Davis Feeder students and the community. This grant is the
second NEA grant received by FotoFest in 2004. The earlier grant of $48,000 was received
for FotoFest's 2004 Biennial art programs.
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FotoFest Attends TCA Conference
Mary Doyle Glover, Director of Literacy Through Photography,
and Jenny Antill, Meeting Place Coordinator attended The Texas
Commission on the Arts Conference,
Texas Arts Exchange: Tools for Results July 29-31, 2004 in Austin
Texas. They met other directors, administrators, volunteers, and
board members from arts organizations all over Texas to exchange
and learn new information.
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Global Forum On Water Video Streams Now
Online
Streaming video of FotoFest
2004's GLOBAL FORUM ON WATER is now available for
viewing on the internet. The entire two days of the Forum at
Rice University can be viewed free in either Real Media or
Windows Media formats by clicking the "more" button.
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Torben Eskerod
From the series Life and Death Masks
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From the Discoveries of FotoFest exhibition on view at the
Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
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| Special Limited Edition signed
copies of European Photography #75, based on FotoFest 2004 - Water, may be purchased at FotoFest
Headquarters or through our online store for
a discount price of $20. |
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