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Volunteer Opportunities The West Hartford Art League’s community events, gallery exhibitions and workshops require year round support from our volunteers in the areas of general office assistance, clerical duties, gallery sitting and reception help. Part-time help in 3-4 hour shifts is appreciated. If you have an extra hour a week to lend a hand, we can use your help! If you are interested in becoming part of our team of volunteers, please complete the volunteer application, and return it to Roxanne Stachelek . If you have questions, please call Roxanne at 521-3732 or email: director@whal.org.
Focus on Photography: Two exhibits at West Hartford Art League Weather or Not, an exhibit of landscape photography is the focus of well known photographers Jack McConnell and Jim Duval’s upcoming exhibit which will be on display at the West Hartford Art League, opening January 11 in the Saltbox Gallery. Weather or Not features work by Jack McConnell, a seasoned advertising photographer and half of the partner team of McConnell and McNamara, who has traveled the United States and Europe for over 35 years working for Fortune 500 clients. His stock photo library of 200,000 images is marketed to clients around the world from his studio in Wethersfield. His work is paired with recent work by Jim Duval, a photography instructor at the Hartford Art School, who also owns J&M image works in Hartford, a business he formed with his partner Mike Kennedy in 2002. Duval received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in photography from the University of CT in 1992. Duval’s and McConnell’s latest exhibit is all about the weather. Duval’s atmospheric landscape images taken around Greater Hartford and the CT River Valley are shot with high speed black and white film which helps to evoke a mystery and mood in his pictures. His work compliments landscapes taken of greater Hartford and coastal Maine taken by McConnell that were shot because of, or sometimes, in spite of the weather. McConnell has documented many series of work through-out his long career that include Stone Walls, Islands in Time, and Hartford, Walk Down Main Street , among others. Exposures, the Twelfth Annual Open Juried Photography exhibit will open concurrently in the Clubhouse Gallery. This annual exhibit features work by some of the best photographers in the region. It will be juried by Justin Kimball, a fine art photographer who received his MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art, and BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently a professor of photography at Amherst College. Both exhibits open currently on Thursday, January 11 and run through February 11th. The opening reception for Weather or Not will be held January 11, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the Saltbox Gallery at 37 Buena Vista Road. Exposures opens the same night in the Clubhouse Gallery next door from 6:30 – 8:30. Awards will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Both shows are free and open to the public. There will be a talk by artists McConnell and Duval about their work and techniques Sunday January 28th at 2 p.m. in the Saltbox Gallery. The lecture is free and open to the public. The West Hartford Art League is located at 37 Buena Vista Road in West Hartford. For more information on either exhibit or the artists talk, please call the West Hartford Art League at (860) 521-3732 or visit our website at www.whal.org.
Exposures ‘07 Juror statement: I like say how impressed I was by the amount of good work that has come from your community and it was a pleasure and honor to see it all. I am equally impressed by the West Hartford Art League and the tremendous job that they do in supporting and promoting the arts. You are lucky to have them. That said, it seems to me there are two ways to approach the jurying of a group show of this size. The first is to be inclusive, to hang as much work as possible in a salon style show. This is often the mission of a community based art organization, to allow everyone to participate. The second is to do a smaller more concise show. One that more specifically addresses the range of work submitted technically and conceptually, but that also represents the individual and collective vision of the artists. After seeing the work, I think about 270 pieces, it became clear that I needed to do it the second way; that the commitment of the artists and quality of the work they submitted required it, anything else would have been a disservice to all involved. I chose work that I felt challenged our ideas about the medium and that in someway tried to question or inform our ideas about the world. Then I tried to build a group of these photographs that represented your intentions. Unfortunately, building the strongest group sometimes requires the editing of good work. Hopefully those left on the walls are photographs that individually and collectively have a strong voice, and that represent a diverse vision of your home, community and the world. Justin Kimball
Fall 2005 NewsletterLetter from the Managing Director
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