Events
Peter Calvin Lecture and Image Presentation
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
7 p.m. S159
Peter Calvin is a documentary photographer and educator, holding a BFA from Ohio University and an MFA from Texas A&M-Commerce. Born in Youngstown, Ohio where he first studied photography at the Butler Institute of American Art, he now lives with his family in Dallas, Texas. His current creative research is an exploration of the built environment in Texas and Mexico.
For more information, please contact Wayne Loucas at loucas@dcccd.edu
Arno Rafael Minkkinen Lecture/Reception
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Sept. 25 7-8 pm, Arena Theater (F108)
Sept. 25 8-9 pm, Lago Vista Gallery (Library).
The Humanities Division at Richland College proudly presents a solo exhibition and artist's lecture by acclaimed international photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen. The exhibition is sponsored by the Photographic/Imaging Program as part of the "Richland College Photography Presentation Series".
Born in Helsinki, Finland in 1945, Arno Rafael Minkkinen emigrated to the United States with his family in 1951. He studied at Wagner College, receiving a B.A. in English Literature in 1967, before completing his M.F.A. in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1974. It was there he studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
He subsequently taught at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Philadelphia College of Art, the Lahti Institute of Design and University of Art and Design Helsinki, and is currently Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he has taught since 1988.
Mr. Minkkinen's work is in the permanent collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, the Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, among many others.
Of his work, he says: "I consider myself to be a documentary photographer. If you see my arms coming up from under the snow, I am under the snow. I treat the medium the same way a street shooter does. What happens in front of my camera happens in reality. There are no double exposures, no digital manipulations. But I also look at the world through the mind."
For more information, please contact Wayne Loucas at loucas@dcccd.edu
Tim Boole
Lecture and Image Presentation
Monday, April 7th, 7:00 p.m. S163
Luther Smith Presentation of Work
Professor of Art Photography at Texas Christian University
Monday, March 24th, 7 p.m. S163