In the Media

• Brock photographers snap up art show awards

  Thursday, December 07, 2017 | By dtemprile

  

  Danny Custodio collaborated with his father to create compositions exploring tar’s organic forms and textures.

  (Source: The Brock News | Wednesday Dec. 6, 2017 by Alison Innes)

  Two Brock photographers were recently honoured for their ability to capture compelling imagery.

  Visual Arts student Denise Apostolatos and Administrative Assistant Danny Custodio, from the Rodman Hall Art Centre, both won awards at RMG Exposed: Out of this World, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery art show and charity auction held Nov. 25.

  Oil and Vinegar by Visual Arts student Denise Apostolatos, received first place in the youth category at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery Exposed: Out of this World annual photography show and auction.

  

  Oil and Vinegar by Visual Arts student Denise Apostolatos, received first place in the youth category at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery Exposed: Out of this World annual photography show and auction.

  Apostolatos’ work, Oil and Vinegar, won first place in the youth category from a shortlist of 40 works from across North America. 

  She says it was “truly an honour” to be named the winner of the youth category, and to receive two consecutive acceptances to participate in RMG Exposed.

  “As an undergraduate student, these opportunities are unique in that they provide a professional outlet to gain recognition and network in a larger context,” she says.

  Apostolatos credits the artistic and professional guidance she receives in the Visual Arts program for fostering her development as a creative professional.

  “As an undergraduate artist, it is important to see her work outside of the classroom and in the professional art community,” says Visual Arts Professor and Department Chair Donna Szoke. “We are thrilled to see Denise’s work being celebrated.”

  The award is also a means to recognize the “talent being produced here in Niagara in our Visual Arts program at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts,” she says.

  Rodman Hall’s Danny Custodio took first place in the Conceptual/Non-Representational category at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s Exposed: Out of this World annual photography show and auction. He is pictured with award sponsor Mason Bennett of Johncox professional Corporation.

  

  Rodman Hall’s Danny Custodio took first place in the Conceptual/Non-Representational category at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s Exposed: Out of this World annual photography show and auction. He is pictured with award sponsor Mason Bennett of Johncox professional Corporation.

  Custodio received the Conceptual/Non-Representational Prize for his image Tar, which explores themes of blue-collar labour.

  “Tar is a commonly used substance in roofing, the profession my father worked for 45 years,” says Custodio, who collaborated with his father to create compositions exploring tar’s organic forms and textures.

  RMG Exposed: Out of this World brings together artists, collectors and curators to celebrate digital photography and support free arts programming for kids and families. The event, now in its eighth year, includes both live and silent auctions of images carefully selected from 466 submissions.

  The event is designed to recognize contemporary photographers and draws artist submissions from across Canada and the United States.

  The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is a public art museum in Oshawa and features a collection of over 4,500 works including Canadian contemporary art and photography.

  To view this year’s images, visit the RMG Exposed website.

  Tags: Brock University, Danny Custodio, Denise Apostolatos, Department of Visual Arts, Exhibit, Exhibition, marilyn i. walker school of fine and performing arts, MIWSFPA, Photography, RMG Exposed, Rodman Hall, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Visual Arts
  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, Exhibitions, In the Media, News

• Work of Visual Arts prof featured on Diana Krall tour

  Friday, November 03, 2017 | By dtemprile

  

  The artwork of Brock Fine Arts Assistant Professor Amy Friend is being featured on the international tour of renowned Canadian musician Diana Krall.

  (Source: The Brock News, Thursday, November 2, 2017 | By: Maryanne Firth)

  When the e-mail popped into Amy Friend’s inbox, she was certain it couldn’t be real.

  But a feeling inside prompted the Brock Fine Arts assistant professor to respond to the inquiry, which asked about her artwork and whether she’d consider collaborating with renowned Canadian musician Diana Krall.

  It was soon after that Friend found herself on the phone with the Grammy Award winner discussing possibilities for her upcoming tour.

  Friend’s experimental photography has since helped Krall to set the scene on stage, acting as her backdrop as she captivates crowds in venues across North America and Europe.

  

  Brock University Fine Arts Assistant Professor Amy Friend.

  Friend’s work has been featured on the jazz singer’s international tour since June and the partnership is expected to continue through to the summer.

  The project, which includes art pieces from three different bodies of work, has been “particularly fulfilling,” Friend said.

  She has enjoyed the challenge of working with Krall to find pieces that fit the mood and message of individual songs, while also complementing the title of the tour and Krall’s most recent album, Turn Up the Quiet.

  “It’s about trying to respect your own work, while also seeing how you can accommodate a vision that will fit within the repertoire they’re working with,” she said.

  Friend is currently working to select new pieces for Krall’s Canadian tour dates, including a Nov. 24 show at Massey Hall in Toronto that she plans to attend.

  “I’m looking forward to seeing her perform and to seeing my work filling the stage in a concert hall where I have heard musicians like Johnny Cash, Tom Waits and Nick Cave perform,” she said.

  Krall’s latest repertoire will include a cover of Bob Dylan’s Simple Twist of Fate, which Friend is particularly excited to find a piece to accompany.

  “Much of my work revolves around ideas of memory, impermanence, history and time,” said Friend, who has worked at Brock for the past decade. “I am less concerned with capturing a ‘concrete’ reality. Instead, I aim to use photography as a medium that offers the possibility of exploring the relationship between what is visible and non-visible.”

  Work featured on the tour includes hand-manipulated photographs, pieces featuring floating handkerchiefs once belonging to Friend’s grandparents, and artwork inspired by snippets of film from her childhood.

  Over the past few months, Friend and Krall have shared many inspiring conversations about family, creativity and women in the arts.

  “She has been so great to work with, you could almost forget her status in the music world,” Friend said.

  Krall often emphasized the need to respect Friend’s work and always checks in with the artist to ensure she’s pleased with the end results of each tour stop.

  Friend called it “refreshing” to be able to engage with other artists.

  “It exposes you to experiences that have commonalities and, at times, interesting variances,” she said. “It’s also wonderful to see how my work found a place to exist far beyond my initial intentions.”

  The team responsible for the on-stage initiative also included Judy Jacob, a video and visual content director, and Paul Normandale, a lighting designer, who Friend said “took the project to the next level.”

  In addition to her work with the tour, Friend has been busy over the past year with international exhibitions in Spain, Korea, Poland, Portugal and France. She has shows coming up in Boston and Italy and plans to release a new book in the near future.

  

  The artwork of Brock Fine Arts Assistant Professor Amy Friend is being featured on the international tour of renowned Canadian musician Diana Krall.

  Tags: Amy Friend, Brock University, canadian musician, diana krall, marilyn i. walker school of fine and performing arts, MIWSFPA, Visual Arts
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• Associate Professor Donna Szoke’s work include in publication.

  Tuesday, October 17, 2017 | By amcbay

  

  Associate Professor and Visual Arts Department Chair Donna Szoke’s work is discussed in the on-line journal New Media Caucus in an article by Lisa Moren, Professor of Visual Art and Graduate Program Director of Intermedia + Digital Art, MFA Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County [UMBC]. Her interactive video installation and all watched over by machines of loving grace is a humorous intervention in the dystopian reality of contemporary dataveillance and societies of control.

  Image courtesy of Tim Nohe.

  Categories: Alumni, Announcements, Current Students, Faculty & Instructors, In the Media, News

• Visa Instructor part of two projects in Windsor, Ontario.

  Monday, October 16, 2017 | By amcbay

  

  Visa Instructor Donna Akrey is part of two collectives with projects being mounted in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor this fall:

  Downtown/s: Urban Renewals Today for Tomorrow, The 2017 Windsor-Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art.
  Art Gallery of Windsor
  October 21 to January 28, 2018

  (F)NOR
  (L)Herbes Other Rivers
  October 20, 7pm

  In/Terminus Research Colective & the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (Lee Rodney, Michael Daroch, Taien Ng-Chan & Donna Akrey)
  Reconnaissance, Heart + Soul: the Windsor Armouries
  October 20, 7pm

   

  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, Faculty & Instructors, In the Media, News

• Award winner stresses mountains worth climbing to capture dreams

  Sunday, June 11, 2017 | By dvivian

  

  (Source: The Brock News, Friday, June 09, 2017 | by Maryanne Firth. Photo caption: “Jessica Vickruck, Aniqah Zowmi, Annika Mazzarella and Grant Yocom were each honoured with a Board of Trustees Spirit of Brock award during Friday’s faculties of Humanities and Math and Science Convocation ceremony.”)

  Annika Mazzarella’s university years were filled with many ups and downs, all which contributed to an important life lesson.

  When the 22-year-old St. Catharines native focused her studies on History of Art and Visual Culture, as well as Medieval and Renaissance Studies, she encountered people along the way who were discouraging, some even disapproving, of her chosen career path.

  It was her time at Brock that taught Mazzarella the importance of striving to achieve her dreams, regardless of any obstacles in her way.

  The naysayers she encountered were offset by the optimistic community at Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts and at Rodman Hall Art Centre, where Mazzarella always felt included and supported to pursue her career ambitions.

  The experience caused her to develop a new sense of self-confidence, refusing to back down from the goals she has set for herself.

  That determination, among other impressive qualities, earned Mazzarella the Board of Trustees undergraduate student Spirit of Brock award for the Faculty of Humanities, presented during Friday’s Convocation ceremony — a joint celebration for the faculties of Humanities and Math and Science.

  The morning event also saw Grant Yocom recognized as the Humanities graduate student Spirit of Brock recipient, and Aniqah Zowmi and Jessica Vickruck honoured as the undergraduate and graduate student recipients respectively for Math and Science.

  Mazzarella said her Brock experience, both inside of and beyond the classroom, provided her with a “solid foundation” to support her future career path as an art curator.

  In addition to studying abroad in Italy last spring through International Plus, Mazzarella joined several Brock organizations, including Brock Dance, Brock Niagara Lifesaving Club, Brock Niagara Masters, Brock Student Leadership Network, and Brock’s Medieval and Renaissance Society.

  She also represented the University as a student delegate at the 2016 Canadian Conference on Student Leadership.

  “With each involvement I had different experiences, however, they proved to me that you can do anything you put your mind to and that there is always something new to learn,” she said.

  Mazzarella plans to move to Ottawa this fall to pursue her master’s degree in Art History with a concentration in Art Exhibition and Curatorial Practices.

  Her advice for incoming students, in the words of Henry David Thoreau, is to “go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.”

  For Zowmi, earning the Spirit of Brock designation meant accomplishing her final university goal.

  “I have been fortunate to have had so many great opportunities,” said the passionate advocate of youth civic engagement, who is known as a leader in the Brock community.

  “One of the best things about Brock is that it is a small community and you feel very much supported,” Zowmi said. “It is also a place that encourages you to develop yourself both professionally and personally.”

  Zowmi is the first Brock student to win a 3M National Student Fellowship Award for her efforts to empower youth and encourage equality in education.

  She served on the University’s Human Rights Task Force, was a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the Commonwealth Youth Forum in Malta, where she addressed more than 700 youths at the UN Headquarters, and was a Youth Advisor to the Canadian Commission to UNESCO.

  Zowmi, a National Youth Ambassador for Passages Canada, also co-founded BrockU Talks, a speaker’s series for students to promote their engagement on global issues such as peace and sustainability.

  Both Spirit of Brock graduate recipients were also recognized for their hard efforts on and off campus.

  Yocom has been a leader among graduate students of the new PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities in its formative years.

  He twice served as the graduate student representative on the council in order to provide a student voice as the program structured its regulations and established the format for its comprehensive examinations.

  Described as an inspirational leader, Yocom brought students together and has helped to make the PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities the exciting and innovative program that it has become.

  Vickruck has demonstrated exemplary leadership in her research group and among graduate students in Biological Sciences.

  Her Master’s of Science produced three published manuscripts on pygmy carpenter bees, and her PhD will produce four major papers on the subject.

  She has also worked with a research scientist at the Canadian National Insect Collection in Ottawa, a collaboration that led to offers from scientists at several other Canadian and American universities.

  Tags: convocation, Curatorial Concentration, HVAC, MARS, Spirit of Brock award, visa
  Categories: Alumni, Current Students, In the Media, News

• Brock prof earns prestigious fellowship

  Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | By Nikki Prudden

  

  (Source: The Brock News, Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | by Alison Innes. Photo caption: “Visual Arts associate professor Keri Cronin. Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals”)

  The animal advocacy movement has a rich visual history, and for her ongoing contributions to the movement, Brock University art historian Keri Cronin has been made a Fellow with the prestigious Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
  

  The Visual Arts associate professor is particularly interested in the ways those working for animal advocacy in previous eras used images in campaigns.

  “It’s really important to think about the relationships that exist between images and animal ethics because representations of animals shape how we think about them, how we treat them,” says Cronin, who is also a Faculty Affiliate in Brock’s Social Justice and Equity Studies graduate program and a founding member of the Social Justice Research Institute. “Images can have real-world consequences for actual flesh-and-blood animals.”

  “My work asks people to consider what happens if we think about these images as part of the larger cultural narrative about how we treat animals, how we decide what counts as ‘cruel’ or ‘humane’ treatments and how those ideas shift over time.”

  Cronin’s research has lead her to archives across North America and the U.K. in search of material such as leaflets and handbills, which often have not been catalogued or preserved in the same way as material on other topics.

  The Visual Arts professor has published several books on visual culture and activism and has recently curated an exhibit, “Be Kind: The Visual History of Humane Education” for The Animal Museum.

  She has also launched a new multimedia project with Jo-Anne McArther of We Animals called Unbound: Women on the Front Lines of Animal Advocacy.

  Cronin’s forthcoming book, Do Not Refuse to Look at These Pictures: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy 1870-1914, is due out this year and she hopes it sparks conversation and awareness about the visual culture of early animal advocacy.

  The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, now comprised of more 100 international scholars, draws together academics from the humanities and sciences, including subjects as diverse as philosophy, theology, law, biology, history, social sciences, literature and politics.

  Membership is by invitation only and only a small portion of those nominated are eventually selected. The lengthy and painstaking selection process recognizes those have made outstanding contributions to the field of animal ethics.

  Cronin is the second Brock professor to join the Centre; Sociology professor Lauren Corman is an Associate Fellow in recognition of her interdisciplinary work on animal rights, posthumanism, feminist, critical race, labour, and environmental theories and practices.

  Tags: animal advocacy, art history, Keri Cronin, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Social Justice and Equity Studies, Social Justice Research Institute
  Categories: Faculty & Instructors, In the Media, News

• Brock, SUNY art show set to open in Buffalo’s Silo City

  Thursday, April 20, 2017 | By Nikki Prudden

  

  (Source: The Brock News, Thursday, April 20, 2017 | by Maryanne Firth. Photo caption: “Buffalo’s Silo City will play host to a joint art exhibition including the work of students and faculty from Brock University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. (Photo: Derek Knight)”)

  Brock University and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo have joined forces to showcase artists on both sides of the border while also highlighting a landmark area on the Buffalo River.

  After two years of planning, Post-Industrial Ephemera: Soundings, Gestures, and Poetics will open Saturday, April 22 at Buffalo’s Silo City — an industrial space filled with repurposed grain elevators and other structures built in the first half of the 20th century.

  Several silos will play host to the free art exhibition until Saturday, April 29.

  The exhibition’s opening reception will run from 2 to 5 p.m. and includes, in addition to the artwork of both Brock and SUNY students and faculty, performances by the Harmonia Chamber Singers, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Lauren Regier, Continuous Monument, Catherine Parayre and Jim Watkins.

  Parayre, event co-curator and an associate professor in Brock’s Studies in Arts and Culture as well as Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, said the event developed from like minds coming together through networking opportunities at Brock’s Rodman Hall Art Centre.

  It was co-curator Reinhard Reitzenstein, an associate professor of sculpture at SUNY-Buffalo, that introduced Parayre to Silo City, the inspiration for the showcase.

  “Everyone is mesmerized because the structures there are stunning,” Parayre said of the area that is filled with buildings worn by weather and time.

  The event, she said, is to encourage people to “reflect on the notion of dispersal.”

  “Silos are built to maintain large networks of commodity exchange for human and animal sustenance. Here, however, the workers are gone; the buildings are exposed to inclement weather; the projects we bring with us will disappear, be dispersed or displaced.”

  Silo City, she said, invites visitors to “become more perceptive to the transience of human endeavours.”

  The exhibition is an opportunity to reflect on the aging structures, their history and nature’s efforts to reclaim the partially vacant space, she said.

  Participating artists come from various disciplines including sculpture, arts, comparative literature, English studies, visual arts, studies in arts and culture, and French studies.

  The showcase features an array of installations, neon signs, readings, paintings, prints, videos and sculptures.

  Brock provided funding for the project through a longstanding research agreement in place between the two institutions, in addition to funding provided through Brock’s Dean of Humanities office.

  “We’re very grateful for Brock’s support,” Parayre said.

  Parking for the event is available onsite and guests are advised to dress warmly as temperatures within the silos remain brisk.

  More information on participating artists and performance schedules for the opening reception is available online.

  A one-day symposium held to relive the exhibition is scheduled to take place in September at Rodman Hall Art Centre in St. Catharines.

  Tags: Brock University, Buffalo, Buffalo  River, Catherine Parayre, derek knight, Exhibition, Lauren Regier, Post-Industrial Ephemera: Soundings Gestures and Poetics, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Silo-City, St. Catharines, State University of New York, SUNY
  Categories: Announcements, Faculty & Instructors, In the Media, News

• Lauren Regier’s Bioart piece Aroma Illius Laqueo.

  Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | By Nikki Prudden

  

  (Source: The Brock News, Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | by Alison Innes. Photo: Lauren Regier (BA ’14) works on her photographs in studio.)

  Three classes into her first Brock University art course with Professor Keri Cronin, Lauren Regier (BA ’14) knew she wanted to study art full time.

  She has since continued to nurture her passion for art and recently launched a photography exhibit at Malcolm Gear Studio in Welland.

  Regier called her connection with Brock and the local arts community, as well as an artist residency she took following graduation, critical to her artistic development.

  It was her professors at the University who explained the residency process and shared their professional experiences to help guide her in an appropriate direction.

  With the support of professors Amy Friend, Irene Loughlin and Donna Szoke, Regier opted to participate in the Sointula Art Shed Residency Program near Vancouver Island in March 2016.

  

  Lauren Regier’s Bioart piece Aroma Illius Laqueo.

  The residency was an important opportunity for her to explore functional and survival properties of plants, humans and animals, and to apply that research into the construction of the plants in her Bioart series.

  The series is a collaboration of science and art that creates new, interesting organisms by meshing together existing bits of plant matter.

  Regier’s work combines plants with industrial products to create strange new prototypes. She documents her creations in black and white photography, hand-tinted with watercolours.

  Regier’s current exhibition, Fantasy Fleur, is an offshoot of her Bioart series.

  “I wanted to break with the notion of idealized beauty — something that is manufactured and very commonplace when it comes to depicting nature, such as floral wallpaper and furniture patterns,” Regier said.

  The Fantasy Fleur photographs feature plants in different stages of their life cycles. They are printed on aluminum; the highly polished surfaces allow for interactive play between the viewer and the work.

  “Similar to species that bloom at specific times of the day, these metallic prints respond to their environments and viewers are forced to physically interact with the work in order to see the image,” Regier said.

  Producing the pieces has been a highlight for Regier over the past year.

  “Meeting wonderful people in the community through Brock University and Rodman Hall has been crucial in developing my practice and providing me a platform to show my photographs,” she said.

  Regier first met Malcolm Gear in her curatorial art class at Brock.

  The artists recently reconnected at a Rodman Hall event at Mahtay Café, which ultimately led to Regier’s exhibition being launched at Malcolm Gear Studio, 464 East Main St. in Welland.

  Her work is on display until Jan. 31.

  Regier’s photography is also available for viewing on her website.

  Tags: Amy Friend, Aroma Illius Laqueo, Bioart, Donna Szőke, Fantasy Fleur, Irene Loughlin, Keri Cronin, Lauren Regier, Malcolm Gear, Malcolm Gear Studio
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• Visual Arts students build camera obscura at Walker School

  Wednesday, November 23, 2016 | By Brock University

  

  (Source: The Brock News, Wednesday, November 23, 2016 | by Alison Innes. Photo caption: Brock Visual Arts students work to build a camera obscura in front of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.)

  Constructing a large outdoor camera has given Brock Visual Arts students a freeze frame of photography techniques of the past.

  As part of the Walker Cultural Leader Series, 40 students from Prof. Amy Friend’s Camera and Darkroom Process Photography course and Candace Bodanski’s Baroque Art and Architecture course worked to build a three metre by three metre camera obscura in front of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines

  The camera obscura gave students an opportunity to experience an early form of photograph making.

  “Their interactions with the structure coerced new methodologies and much trial and error to achieve a successful photograph,” Friend says.

  After working with New York artist Liz Sales and Friend to build the camera, the students used it for about a month to produce photographs.

  The result is a new exhibit at the downtown Brock opening Thursday, Nov. 24.

  The term camera obscura was coined in the early 17th century and means “a darkened room.” The device works on similar principles to a pinhole camera. A dark room or tent with a small hole in one side allows light to pass into the darkened space and create an image of an object. This image can be captured on photographic paper or by drawing.

  Making the structure light-tight was a challenge, requiring students to hand stitch the black-out material directly onto the structure so wind couldn’t lift the fabric and allow light to leak in and interfere with the exposure of the silver gelatin paper during production.

  Friend said that she witnessed some hesitancy with the new structure at first, as it disrupts modern understanding of what a photographic capture is.

  “As a practitioner,” she said, “I love that reaching into the vaults of history reveals new ways of seeing and thinking. Students pushed their experiments with impressive results.”

  Other Brock Visual Arts classes also interacted with the camera obscura while two high school classes visited the project and attended a workshop with Sales and Friend in which they engaged with the camera and darkroom facilities to produce photographs.

  In Light and Darkness: A Camera Obscura Project with Artist Liz Sales and Brock Visual Arts Students runs until Dec. 9 in the MIWSFPA Art Gallery, and also features work from Sales’ own camera obscura series The Weather Inside. An opening reception and artist talk by Sales will be held Thursday, Nov. 24 from 6-7 p.m. in MW151 at the downtown campus.

  Tags: Amy Friend, camera obscura, Camera Obscura Project, Candace Bodanski, In Light and Darkness, Liz Sales, MIWSFPA Art Gallery, Photography, The Weather Inside, walker cultural leader series
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• Brock students team with NY photographer

  Monday, November 21, 2016 | By Brock University

  

  (Source: St. Catharines Standard, Monday, November 21, 2016 | by John Law. Photo caption: An image from photographer Liz Sales’ series The Weather Inside. CREDIT: Liz Sales / Submitted)

  New York photographer Liz Sales will team with Brock University Visual Arts students for a camera project opening Nov. 22.

  In Light and Darkness will spotlight the results of a ‘camera obscura’ collaboration on the grounds of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines.

  Prior to an opening reception Nov. 24, Sales will host an artist’s talk at 6 p.m. in the school’s Foundation Studio (MW 151).

  “(Liz) has a knowledge base that’s quite extensive,” says Department of Visual Arts assistant professor Amy Friend. “And she’s quite adventurous. She doesn’t have a traditional set of what is expected, and I thought that would be really useful for the students.”

  Sales currently teaches at the International Center of Photography. Her work focuses on the relationship between perception and technology, and is seen in several photo-based magazines.

  Friend was already familiar with Sales’ work when the photographer contacted her two years ago for a magazine interview. She knew her unpredictable style and methods were ideal for Brock’s visual arts students.

  “She’s definitely an experimenter, which was really important to bringing her to work with the students. She has a background in motion picture cameras, and also builds her own cameras by hand to shoot her photographs.”

  In addition to student work, the show will feature selections from Sales’ camera obscura series The Weather Inside.

  Camera obscura is the optical result of an image projected through a small hole, seen as reversed and inverted.

  Friend says the students built a ten-by-ten foot tent with blackout material as an exterior darkroom for the project. It’s located directly in front of the Marilyn I. Walker school.

  “There’s quirks whenever you’re building something new in a different place, so it teaches them not only about the construction and function of the camera, but also the learning that happens along the way for everyone.”

  jlaw@postmedia.com

  • WHO: Liz Sales and Brock Visual Arts Students
  • WHAT: In Light and Darkness
  • WHEN: Nov. 22 to Dec. 9
  • WHERE: Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts; 15 Artists’ Common; St. Catharines

  Tags: Amy Friend, camera obscura, Camera Obscura Project, In Light and Darkness, John Law, Liz Sales, St. Catharines Standard, The Weather Inside, walker cultural leader series
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