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Faces of the Past: Unidentified Woman
Photomontages by Corinne Diop This article is coming out in the Harrisonburg Daily News Record on Friday, January 19th. I will reprint here in full at a later time. November 17, 2023-December 31, 2023Beverly Street Studio School Gallery22 West Beverly Street, Staunton, Virginia by Alexandria Searls Photography allows us to time travel, not only from Read more about Faces of the Past: Unidentified Woman[…]
Text Exhibition at Hampden-Sydney College
In October, my work on Thomas Jefferson’s Bibles, abstract compositions combining text with paper forms and empty visual fields, will be featured in an exhibition in the Gallery, Hampden-Sydney’s art space. Opening date to come!
International Fine Arts Film Festival
This weekend our short film “Little Forest Space” is being shown on-line free of charge as part of the International Fine Art Film Festival in Santa Barbara! https://internationalfineartsfilmfestival.com/ and at http://www.ifaff.org/ We’re in the second dance program, and we’re the last film shown. I hope you enjoy it.
Better Cities Film Festival
Tickets for “Rainbow Walks: The First Trail” are available October 8-11 here: https://bcff2020.eventive.org/welcome and you’ll have seven days to watch after purchase. We’re part of the “Next Generation & Cities” short film program!
Little Forest Space
More good news this week…our dance film “Little Forest Space” will be part of the International Fine Arts Film Festival in Los Angeles this year.
Better Cities Film Festival
Our short film “Rainbow Walks,” about an environmental education program at the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center, has just been accepted into the Better Cities Film Festival! The Better Cities Film Festival explores city design and how experiences in urban greenspace are vital to our well-being. The festival begins in Detroit and Cincinnati and travels Read more about Better Cities Film Festival[…]
Discoveries
A few years ago I had a DNA test from ancestry. com and then I joined their subscription service. There were many surprises, more than I was expecting. They are not always immediately apparent. You need to look at the data, look at other people’s trees, track comments and stories. Even when you suspect something Read more about Discoveries[…]
February Screenings
We’re so excited to be part of two wonderful festivals this weekend! Tonight we’ll be part of the Greensboro Dance Film Festival, and I’m on my way there this morning from Durham, looking forward to seeing dance films and to meet the festival organizers. “Little Forest Space” will have its premiere there, so I’ll be Read more about February Screenings[…]
December Screenings
“Immersion/Inversion” will play in Buenos Aires on December 13 and 14, 2019, as part of the XV Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground. cineunder.wordpress.com It also showed November 8th, our first screening in South America, at the Espacio Cultural El Astillero. Also on December 13th, “In the River’s Flow” will show at the International Underwater Film Read more about December Screenings[…]
Artist-in-Residence
This October I spent a wonderful week with the students and faculty of Hampden-Sydney College. There were many enjoyable hours…teaching an underwater filming workshop at a pond, strolling through the woods during an Art and Ecology class, and standing beside photography students in a darkroom. My knowledge of traditional printing came alive again, tucked away Read more about Artist-in-Residence[…]