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May 9, 2012

Meet the New Members of the CoPA Board of Directors

CoPA congratulates the six new members of our Board of Directors, elected unanimously at the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, May 8. We welcome: Shay Armstrong, Michael J. Havice, Paul Oemig, Jim Schaff, Roy C. Schmidt, and Mark Stall. Click to learn more about them, and how they hope to assist in achieving CoPA's future goals.

CoPA congratulates the six new members of our Board of Directors, elected unanimously at the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, May 8.

Please read on to learn more about the newest additions to the Board, and how they hope to assist in achieving CoPA's future goals.

January 27, 2012

The Viewer's Choice winner is...

The “Viewer’s Choice” winner at CoPA's 5th annual Midwest Juried Photo Exhibition is Hillary Quella with her piece entitled Communication Continuum. Congratulations Hillary!

The 2011 annual exhibition took place at the Walkers Point Center for the Arts and was juried by Chicago gallery owner, Catherine Edelman. The show consisted of 43 photographic pieces by 30 different photographers from all over the Midwest.

January 11, 2012

Gallery Night and Day Returns to Milwaukee on January 20

The first Gallery Night and Day of 2012 arrives in Milwaukee on Friday, January 20 and Saturday, January 21. Photographs by CoPA members will be on view all over town, including work by Cindy Lesky, Linda Schwam Merkel, Bill Zuback and Jessica Zalewski Schafer.

The first Gallery Night and Day of 2012 arrives in Milwaukee on Friday, January 20 and Saturday, January 21.

Photographs by CoPA members will be on view all over town. First stop, the closing reception of CoPA’s own 5th Annual Midwest Juried Exhibition at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 839 S. 5th Street, January 20, 5 to 9 p.m.

January 22, 2011

CoPA’s Annual Juried Show Increasingly Popular with Chicagoans

CoPA’s Midwest photography exhibit attracted about 400 people. Geri Laehn (left), chair of the Exhibition Committee, said this year's show will be held Dec. 2-Jan. 20. at the Walker's Point Center for the Arts.

CoPA’s Midwest juried photography show is increasingly popular with the gallery-viewing public: during its six-week run, the fourth annual exhibit attracted more than 400 people.

January 4, 2011

Help Portrait 2010

Help-Portrait Volunteers offer their "time, gear, and expertise" to those in need who don’t normally have ready access to photography that most of us take for granted. They shoot and then they give away the prints to their subjects.

How revealing a turn of phrase can be! Instead of “taking” pictures, as we so commonly say, the photographers who volunteer with Help-Portrait Milwaukee givethem.

Jim Stingl’s unerring eye for the human interest stories of Milwaukee landed on this one in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read Jim’s column.