OOVAR install via Flickr

from a flickr page part of mr.thingy's photostream

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Online Visual Artist Registry Exhibition at the Columbus Library

I finally found a news release for the OOVAR exhibition.

the URL: http://www.columbuslibrary.org/ebranch/index.cfm?pageid=37&newsid=584

or just click on

OOVAR show at Main Library through Nov. 29

Please visit the OOVAR show (Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry) beginning Oct. 13th and ending Nov. 29, with a reception on Saturday, November 15th at 4pm. The reception is catered and the winners of the Jurors Choice and the Peoples Choice will be presented with awards. (Pictured: Juror's Choice Award Winner, "Heavenly Dreaming" by artist Juliette Montague.)

The Columbus Metropolitan Library and the Ohio Arts Council collaborated to create the Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry to present arts opportunities to artists in Ohio. The OOVAR Show is a celebration of this partnership. The artwork will be displayed at The Columbus Metropolitan Main Library in the Humanities & Fine Arts Division from October 13-November 29, 2008. An award of $1000 will be given for Juror's Choice. An award of $500 will be presented for People's Choice. People's Choice Award ballots will be accepted through November 8. The cash awards are provided by Friends of the Library.

Published on October 29, 2008

OOVAR, please vote

A plea, prayer, request and favor. The Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch) is hosting their third annual Ohio Online Visual Artist Regisry's exhibition.

http://www.ohioonlinearts.org/

I have one piece, titled "Dunce", that has been accepted and I wish to promote that fact (unashamedly). The library has a people's choice category in which visitor's to the main library can vote for their favorite piece. In this election year we all can make an impact. I invite you to pass this along to anyone who may remember me from Columbus or anyone who wants to see a great annual juried exhibition in a very public space.

The 3rd Annual Ohio Online Registry Juried Show will take place October 13 through November 29, 2008 at the Columbus Metropolitan Library's Main Branch at 96 S. Grant.

I do feel a bit guilty for asking for votes but it is in the spirit of a historical election year and I am not stooping to using Robocalls. Please stop by the library's main branch and vote for an artist and their work. If you can't make up your mind I hope that you make "Dunce" your write-in canidate.

--
francis schanberger

www.frangst.com

ImageOhio 9

Hackberry Leaf and Seeds have been selected by Paula Tognarelli to be in ImageOhio 9. No specific exhibition dates but I expect it to be in January 2009.

one night high with OAL

Ohio Art League is once again hosting an annual fund raiser / art auction in the form of a party in an old bank vault, 90 N High Street. One Night High is on Friday, October 10th. My wife, Bridgette Bogle, and I will both have two pieces up for bid.

The auction preview begins at 6:30pm.
The main event begins at 8pm.

Go to OAL's website for more details:

http://www.oal.org/onenight/

Third Annual Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Art Show

I will have one piece "Dunce" in the 3rd annual Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Art Show at the Columbus Main Library's Carnegie Gallery. I've copied the press release below.

"The Third Annual Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Art Show will feature original works of art by Ohio artists. Work will be selected through a blind jury process of distinguished art professionals, including professional juror, Ron Kroutel, an Athens area artist who won the juror’s choice award during the 2007 OOVAR exhibition.

The artwork will be displayed at The Columbus Metropolitan Main Library in the Carnegie Gallery from October 13-November 29, 2008. An award of $1000 will be given for Juror’s Choice. An award of $500 will be presented for People’s Choice. People’s Choice Award ballots will be accepted through November 8. The cash awards are provided by Friends of the Library."

tee shirts at cafepress

I do have t-shirts available at cafepress displaying the self-portrait images from my mistaken (MFA) thesis exhibition.

My cafe press store can be accessed by going to http://www.cafepress.com/frangst

book of alternative photographic processes

Another late notice. Last February (2008), Christopher James published the second edition of his landmark, much loved Book of Alternative Photographic Processes.


Go to amazon's site to see a description of the book. It wouldn't be far off the mark to call this the bible for alternative process photography. In expanded this edition over the first one, he included my photo of Dr. Frangst in his photogram labcoat in between a discussion of John Herschel and Anna Atkins on page 151.

dates for art and design faculty show University of Dayton

The Rike gallery is showing the faculty exhibition.

Opening Date: September 17th

Closing Date: September 30th

reception tonight, September 23rd from 6pm - 8pm.

faculty show at University of Dayton's Rike Gallery

Opening tomorrow is the faculty exhibition for the University of Dayton's Rike gallery. The reception will be next Tuesday, September 23rd, from 6-8pm.

MACA

Better late than never.

I was part of a one night event at Spanish tapas style restaurant in Powell, Ohio, MACA.


The gallery space is an old Mercantile exchange. The restaurant is in the back. Delicious food, wine abounding with my two favorite grapes Garnache and Tempranillo.

there were five of us, Sarah Fairchild, Kathryn Nova Williams, Andrew Ball, Amanda Tirey and me, Frances Schanberger. Really Francis Schanberger but MACA's website has the feminine spelling for my name. That makes three, the Dayton Art Institute, Texas Photographic Society and Maca as making me a Miss.

I hung the Diana camera seascapes H, (was) a seawall, Anchor, Labyrinth, J, Starling, Cage, Touch (sand drawing) and two others.

not pretty but functional...the new website

it's been literally years since I had an up to date and functioning website. I've been torn between doing something beautiful or doing something functional but ugly. I gave into the latter. It works. Visitors will have an idea of what I've been working on and hopefully old friends and acquaintances can find me.

for at least the next 24 hours the website will be accessed by going to:

http://sites.google.com/site/frangst/

after a day or so and if I didn't make any mistakes the site will be found at my domain name:

www.frangst.com

pokeberries

New models arriving this autumn like at the car dealers but prettier. Pokeberries. I've made an early van dyke brown attempt at this but I think the digital negative needs a lot of work. Too much is lost in the translation. I will post it once I get it right. Lot's of time this weekend for studio since school is under way.

two more group shows

The new work is being well received. "Curl" has been excepted into the Texas Photographic Society's TPS 17 : TNC, juried by Lisa Sutcliffe, which will travel around Texas, New York and California for one year. It opens in Austin at the Dougherty Art Center on September 4th.

"Seeds" received an honorable mention in a group show of alternative process photography curated by Christopher James at Tilt gallery in Phoenix, Arizona. The closing reception is Friday, Sept 19th 6 to 10pm. Photography Re-imagined is currently on display.

DVAC members show

From July 18th through August 21st, Bridgette Bogle and I will have work in the Dayton Visual Art Center's Member Show. Here's a link to a gallery picture showing Bridgette's work on the lower right.

http://www.daytonvisualarts.org/exhibitions/members_show2008_3.html


The image I have is of the "Hackberry Leaf with Nipple Gall"

ohio state fair fine arts exhibition: The 2008 Award winners

ohio state fair fine arts exhibition: The 2008 Award winners

Ohio State Fair Fine Arts

Not being in Ohio for the last few weeks and missing the opening exhibition, I have been on pins and needles searching for specific info regarding the Ohio State Fair Fine Arts exhibition award winners. Melissa Vogley Woods, co-director of the Fine Arts Exhibition has been blogging news from the Ohio State Fair. The work selected and receiving an Ohio Arts Council Professional Award are ....from left to right "Seeds", "Birch Pollen", "Curl"