John Goodman’s “not recent COLOR” will be exhibited at Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston opening Friday, March 5th from 6-8pm.

Gina Levay will be signing copies of her book, Sandhogs, at the New York Public Library off Bryant Park. The event is tonight, March 1st. Enter the 40th St and 5th Avenue location and head to the 6th floor.

For more information, head over to the NY Public library website.

Tonight Ben Baker will be presenting his work at the The NY PhotoGroup Salon.

David Wright’s Uganda: A River Blue will be exhibited at AnastasiaPhoto at 166 Orchard Street, NYC from February 5 – March 31, 2010. Reception on March 4th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.

Leaves of Grass

Photographs by Jared Moossy

An Intimate Portrait of Afghanistan

February 6 – February 27, 2010

Artist’s Reception 6:00 – 8:30 pm, Saturday, February 6

Norwood Flynn Gallery
3318 Shorecrest Drive, Dallas, Texas 75235
ph (214) 351-3318 fax (214)353-0755

In March 2010, in honor of Women’s History Month, Humble Arts Foundation in association with Affirmation Arts will present its second edition of 31 Women in Art Photography, a five-week exhibition celebrating 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography. The exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein, will present an eclectic mix of new talent, culled from open submissions. 31 opens at Affirmation Arts in New York City on Saturday, March 6 during The Armory Show 2010.

The exhibition includes photographs by Erica Allen, Amelia Bauer, Claire Beckett, Gilda Davidian, Jessica Eaton, Naomi Harris, Carmen von Kende, Anna Krachey, Yvonne Lacet, Erika Larsen, Jessica Mallios, Alison Malone, S. Billie Mandle, Paula McCartney, Rachelle Mozman, Yamini Nayar, Sarah Palmer, Kristine Potter, Heather Rasmussen, Justine Reyes, Lisa Robinson, Irina Rosovsky, Sasha Rudensky, Victoria Sambunaris, Robin Schwartz, Emily Shur, Brea Souders, Rachel Sussman, Kirsten Kay Thoen, Carson Fisk Vittori, and Ann Woo.

An Exhibition Curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein

Press Preview: Thursday, March 4, 12 – 6 p.m.;

R.S.V.P. kate{at}hafny.org

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 6 / 6 – 9 p.m.

After Party: Saturday, March 6 / 9 p.m. – midnight

R.S.V.P required for opening reception and after party: rsvp{at}affirmationarts.com

Exhibition on view: Saturday, March 6 – Saturday, April 10, 2010

Location:

Affirmation Arts Foundation

523 W. 37th Street

New York, NY 10018

(212) 925.0092

affirmationarts.com

Gallery hours: Mon – Thurs, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Friday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

This Thursday, January 14th, Gina LeVay’s Bull Fight series will be at photo l.a. at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.  The exhibition runs through January 17th.

AmericanPoverty.org announced two student grants for the development of “projects that would demonstrate the urgent need for poverty alleviation” and “success stories that could lead the way toward improving millions of lives.”

“AmericanPoverty.org Student Summer Grants are open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students under the age of 26, any student under age 26 who will graduate in the winter or spring of 2010, or any photographer or filmmaker under the age of 23 who is neither employed full-time as a staff photographer/video/multimedia journalist or deriving significant income as a freelancer in those fields. Two persons, e.g., a writer and photographer or a videographer and broadcast journalist, can apply as a team but only one grant will be awarded, to be split by both applicants.”

Two $3000 grants are available, one for the production of a still photo component, the other for video/multimedia. Documentary film students, broadcast students, journalism and photojournalism students, as well as any young person aspiring to become a professional in those fields, is encouraged to apply.

AmericanPoverty.org is the inaugural project of In Our Own Backyard, an organization of leading photojournalists that includes Redux photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier, in addition to Steve Liss, Eli Reed, Paul Fusco, Jon Lowenstein, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Lori Grinker, and Andrew Lichtenstein.  AmericanPoverty.org is “a multimedia examination of the daily struggles of impoverished Americans.” IOOB is “committed to the cause of social reform in the United States” through the development of immersive photographic and educational curriculum.

For Grant information and application instructions, visit http://americanpoverty.org/grants

Gina LeVay continues her recent success with an exhibition that opens this Thursday in New York. Running through March 8, stop by the Hous Project gallery located at 31 Howard Street in New York. Gina’s “Sandhogs” project will be paired-up with Michael Wolf’s “Transparent City” exposé of Chicago.

As always, be sure to purchase Gina’s ground-breaking book from powerHouse Books.

The Edward Curtis Project is a unique collaboration between Redux photographer Rita Leistner, Métis/Dene playwright Marie Clements and numerous individuals in First Nation communities in Canada and the United States.

It was a commonly held view in Curtis’s time that the Aboriginals of North America were a “vanishing race” – and his job was to create a photographic record before it was too late. Leistner and Clements take a fresh look at colonial photography and the attitudes of the day, addressing questions such as: What happens when the ‘vanishing race’ doesn’t vanish and what is the impact on people when the message is that they are vanishing?

Two years in the making, the play and photography exhibition, commissioned by Presentation House Theatre, premiere in January as an Official Selection of the Cultural Olympiad of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.