Early Processes

UCR ARTSblock is joining with other downtown Riverside arts organizations to present First Sunday - Family Fun Days each month. On Sunday, April 5, 1:00-4:00pm, there will be a hands-on activity entitled Kineographs: Flipbook Animations.  Here's the description: "Photographs can exist as more than still, stand-alone images. They can work together as a sequence to create animated scenes. Join us this Sunday as participants create moving picture flipbooks also known as kineographs." This is a project for all ages. Free - UCR California Museum of Photography, 3824 Main Street, Riverside

On Sunday, May 3, 1:00-4:00pm the theme is Sunprints. "Early photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot considered himself a failed artist. He sought a process to fix nature's beauty in a technical way, rather than by drawing.  Join us as participants create light-based drawings or photo-graphs using the sun's rays on chemically-treated paper. Free and open to the public. For info email: digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu

Tumbleweed

It's that time again already -- Joshua Tree 2009 Photographic Excursion sponsored by UCR ARTSblock. Participant's in this year's photo project will collaborate to produce a mammoth virtual image of the desert's mountains, valleys, hills, vegetation, and wildlife. Photographers should bring or will be supplied with GPS devices to chart their land coordinates in the park. 

This should also be a cool weekend as its a full moon, great for night photography. Submitted images will be collaged into a mega zoom-able photograph of Joshua Tree, complete with annotations -- accessible byway of the Internet and an on-site California Museum of Photography exhibition. Registration has already begun. Deadline April 1 for workshops, April 15 for joining the project in JT. Orientation sessions will take place in Los Angeles and Riverside during the third week in April. Stay tuned! 

This year there will be three related activities. 

For Images of the Desert Palm Springs photo collector David Knaus will host at his home a private viewing of desert photography from his own collection. Knaus and Colin Westerbeck, Director of UCR CMP, will discuss the prints selected, which range from the 19th century to the present. Friday, May 8, 4pm. Limited to 25. Phone rsvp required.

The Nocturne Photo Workshop allows photographers to get tips on taking shots in the dark. Participants should bring along their film and digital cameras. Friday, May 8, 7pm. Free - Location: TBA

A gathering of artists will meet at the Tumbleweed Photo Gallery in Yucca Valley to celebrate the closing of this 1st Annual Morongo Basin Photographic Show. Saturday, May 9th, 3pm. 57490 Palms Highway, Yucca Valley

For info, download the flyer at www.artsblock.ucr.edu, or call: 951.827.4796  email: digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu

Extremist

The annual Extreme Places photo contest sponsored by UC Riverside California Museum of Photography's Digital Studio Gallery received 129 amazing entries from 49 emerging and established photographers. For a quick look, see: SmugMug and enter the password - extreme. Works consist of straight documentary photography of exotic and surreal places as well as works manipulated through collage techniques, virtual paint, lens filters and special computer effects.

Entries have come primarily from southern California, but also include works from China and Amsterdam. An exhibition of the selected winners will take place at UCR CMP on Thursday April 2nd, 6:00-7:30pm. For more info email: digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu or call: 951.827-4796