The following is reprinted from New Times Best of Phoenix 2012:
“Art Intersection is home to countless local “pherds” (photography nerds, as they call themselves) who don’t mind the drive to Gilbert to see quality work. The 7,000-square-foot space is dedicated to photography and photography education under executive director Alan Fitzgerald and local photographer/art instructor Carol Panaro-Smith.
Here you’ll find work by the founding fathers of alternative process photography alongside daguerreotypes, platinum/palladium prints, photogravures, and gelatin silver prints made by local emerging artists.While you’re there to see the art, be sure to check out the built-in space for workshops and lab areas in black-and-white film, cyanotype, kallitype, platinum, palladium, gum bichromate, wet plate collodion, and digital prints. And if any of those words get your creative muscles working, you’re sure to get a big welcome home, pherd.”
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Fifty-two pieces of original art found new homes as a result of the Annual Silent Auction at Art Intersection. Throughout the two weeks prior to the actual event on Saturday, December 1, the work of artists who generously donated the pieces were on display in the North and South galleries. Sometimes a silent auction can be a less than cohesive array of work, however many visitors commented on the extraordinary quality and professionalism of this exhibition.
On Saturday evening, it was great to see so many people show up to support Art Intersection. We could not have accomplished this without our community of artists, members, volunteers, and art enthusiasts who made the event a success.
With the funds raised we will to continue to showcase the work of all levels of artists, showing the best photography and related art forms. Specifically, these contributions will offset future exhibition costs and finance our yearly student exhibition, Emerge, which showcases work from several local high schools, community colleges, and universities.
To everyone who “paid it forward”, please accept our heartfelt gratitude. We strive to continue to be a place where you can learn, create, and exhibit.
This evening we saw work from six members in our Member Portfolio event. The work included gelatin-silver and digital prints. The portfolio events are open to the public for viewing. Sharing your work is one of the benefits of being a member.
Four of the Through Each Others Eyes photographers exhibited eighty images at Art Intersection from their First Arizona – Alberta Exchanges 2012. Through Each Others Eyes USA based photographers Colleen Miniuk-Sperry and Ken Ross traveled to Alberta, Canada, while Canadian photographers Peter Carroll and Royce Howland came to Arizona. Each photographer chose their favorite twenty images for the show which were in the North and South Galleries. The well attended reception included all four photographers and was held Wednesday, November 7, at the Art Intersection galleries.
Since 1988, 137 photographers have participated in Through Each Others Eyes™ photo exchanges, producing exhibitions that have been viewed by more than two million people. In addition, the photographers of Through Each Others Eyes™ participate in social and educational projects around the globe. To learn more, visit the website at www.teoe.org.
We hope to have more exhibitions with Through Each Others Eyes in the coming years!
On October 25, 2012, the Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery Award was awarded to Art Intersection, an educational institution and gallery, for expanding the scope and quality of the arts in Gilbert, Arizona.
The following is reprinted from the Arizona Republic:
“At his third annual Breakfast with the Arts on Thursday, Gilbert Mayor John Lewis extolled the importance of the arts amid the increasing importance that science and technology are receiving in education and economic development.
His theme was Connecting Arts to the Community: Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead, a slogan that adds arts to STEM, the acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics that is being promoted in schools.
“When we think of STEM, that’s a good thing. When we put the ‘a’ in STEM, that’s even greater,” Lewis told a gathering of Gilbert’s artists and arts educators and volunteers.
An accompanying slide show highlighted the town’s arts community, including Art Intersection, the Gilbert Art Walk and the Hale Centre Theatre.
Lewis also presented 10 awards, some named after prominent town families.”
Artist in residence, David Emitt Adams, gave an informative and engaging lecture about his work and practice of using 19th century photographic processes to communicate his 21st century ideas.
After the lecture we looked at original works of his wet plate collodion imagery on weathered tin cans he finds in the desert.
David will continue to share his expertise in the field of wet plate collodion by offering a day-long workshop and open studio on October 27 and 28. For more information on the two events visit Wet Plate Collodion Tintype.
If you can’t make the workshop, join us for an informal dinner on Sunday evening, October 28th at 4pm with David and the staff of Art Intersection. Visit the website for more information about dinner and to register Dinner With The Artist.
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We know how difficult it is to have a meaningful dialogue during an exhibition’s opening so we hosted a gallery talk for Word Up: artists using language, to discuss the work in the exhibition.
John Risseeuw and Dan Mayer, educators and artists from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU led the conversation. John and Dan talked about the history of the Fine Printing and Book Arts Program at ASU and also shared a lot of interesting historical references to the art of fine printing.
There were several other exhibiting artists in attendance, including Karla Elling from Mummy Mountain Press, Linda Smith from Picnic Press and current student, Rosalind Shipley along with ASU alumni, Peter Bugg. For more photos of this exhibition visit our facebook page.
The opening reception for WORD UP: artists using language and Abstracted by J. Barry Thomson kicked off our fall season programming block of Art & Language.
In the galleries you’ll find so much interesting work, plan to stay for at least an hour. In additional to three galleries full of a variety of media, you can come into the east gallery and spend some time looking at-and yes- handling, a wide variety of artists’ books.
Here’s a link to our Facebook photo album where you can see images of the opening and selected pieces from the exhibitions.
Please visit our website to look at our fall line-up of classes, lectures, workshops and MORE!
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