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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.

 

May 3, 2012
Member Exhibition: Suzanne Garr at the Minneapolis Photo Center

CoPA member Suzanne Garr was recently accepted into Minneapolis Photo Center juried exhibition The Portrait: Up Close and Personal. The exhibition opens with a reception on June 22nd, and runs through August 19th.

CoPA member and former Board Secretary and Development Co-chair, Suzanne Garr was recently accepted in a Minneapolis Photo Center juried exhibition. The call for entries for The Portrait: Up Close and Personal resulted in the submission of more than 1,600 images from around the world, 75 of which will be exhibited at the Minneapolis Photo Center. The exhibition opens June 22nd, and runs through August 19th.

April 4, 2012
Annual CoPA Members' Show Open through Saturday, May 12th

CoPA's Seventh Annual Members' Exhibition is open through May 12th with regular gallery hours at 262 East Menomonee in the Third Ward, across from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD).The exhibition spans the gamut of photography: natural and urban landscapes, fantasy, travel, digital manipulation, black and white close-ups, psychological portraits, mixed media, and much more.

CoPA's Seventh Annual Members' Exhibition opened with a reception on Gallery Night at 262 East Menomonee in the Third Ward, just across from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD). This year, the Members' Show features 113 regional artists. The exhibition will be on display with regular gallery hours from April 20 to May 12, 2012.

The exhibition spans the gamut of photography: natural and urban landscapes, fantasy, travel, digital manipulation, black and white close-ups, psychological portraits, mixed media, and much more. CoPA’s members include well-established professional photographers, college students and amateurs. Some experiment fearlessly; others are consummate craftsmen, committed to traditional processes. All are united by a passion for fine art photography.
 

Gallery Night Opening Reception
Friday, April 20     5–9 pm


April 2, 2012
CoPA Annual Meeting | Call for Board & Committee Members

Do you love CoPA? Do you have creative energy? Do you want to see CoPA grow? Do you want to grow as a photographer?

If you answered yes to some of these questions, it's obvious that you care enough about CoPA to become involved and here is your chance.

Do you love CoPA?
Do you have creative energy?
Do you want to see CoPA grow?
Do you want to grow as a photographer?
Do you want to grow as a leader through experience?
Do you want to build valuable networks and relationships with fellow board members?
 
If you answered yes to some of these questions, it's obvious that you care enough about CoPA to become involved and here is your chance.
 

February 17, 2012
See: Portrait Exhibition at Jewish Museum Milwaukee

One World One People:
Jewish Photographic Portraits by Arnold Newman
December 25, 2011 – March 30, 2012

At the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 North Prospect Avenue, ‘One World One People’, an exhibit  by renowned photographer Arnold Newman (1918-2006), is a culmination of portraits he made of significant individuals over the course of his illustrious career. 

One World One People: Jewish Photographic Portraits by Arnold Newman
 

May 3, 2012
CoPA's Featured Artist at May ART Jamboree | Martha Coaty

Member photographer Martha Coaty will be CoPA's Featured Artist at the upcoming ART Milwaukee ART Jamboree on Saturday, May 19 at Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 North Broadway. Coaty is an award winning fine art photographer currently living in Allouez, WI. Her photographs of houses and barns of Northern Wisconsin are geometrically precise, infused with a keen sense of stillness. She is a Wisconsin native and has practiced the art of photography for over thirty years.

Member photographer Martha Coaty will be CoPA's Featured Artist at the upcoming ART Milwaukee ART Jamboree on Saturday, May 19 at Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 North Broadway. Coaty is an award winning fine art photographer currently living in Allouez, WI. Her photographs of houses and barns of Northern Wisconsin are geometrically precise, infused with a keen sense of stillness. She is a Wisconsin native and has practiced the art of photography for over thirty years.  Her body of work, “Door County and other Northern Places,” can be viewed at www.marthacoatyphotography.com.

CoPA is partnering with ART Milwaukee in 2012 to bring great photographs to the community at their ART Jamborees. With the help of other local organizations, these social experiences bring the work of featured artists to thousands each month at different locations throughout the city.


 

March 27, 2012
The Europeans: Photographs by Tina Barney

The Europeans, which recently opened at CoPA Sponsor the Haggerty Museum of Art, provides an intimate look at wealthy Europeans at home through the eyes of American photographer Tina Barney.

March 2, 2012
Learn: Photography and Photoshop CS5 Classes

CoPA member and photography instructor Susan Lukas offers one-on-one classes to improve your photography and Adobe Photoshop skills.

CoPA member and photography instructor Susan Lukas offers one-on-one classes to improve your photography by learning more about lighting, shutter speeds, and apertures, as well as the skills for taking better portraits.

Choose from sessions of four or eight classes.

 

 

February 17, 2012
Learn: Portrait Photography Mini Course Begins February 21

Landscape of the Lens and Beyond: Portrait Photography Mini Course 
Session Series with photography experts Francis Ford and Jim Seder
February 21, February 23 & February 28, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Landscape of the Lens
and Beyond: Portrait Photography Mini Course – 3 Session Series
Tuesday, February 21, Thursday, February 23 & Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
 

January 13, 2012
CoPA's Featured Artist at ART Milwaukee's March ART Jamboree | Ben Stuart

Member photographer Ben Stuart was CoPA's Featured Artist at the  ART Milwaukee ART Jamboree on Friday, March 9 at Milwaukee's City Hall, 200 E. Wells Street. Stuart's captivating portraits of youth in traditional costumes our city's many ethnic festivals demonstrate Milwaukee's continuing commitment to honoring the heritage of those who built it.

Member photographer Ben Stuart was CoPA's Featured Artist at the ART Milwaukee ART Jamboree on Friday, March 9 at Milwaukee's City Hall, 200 E. Well Street. Stuart's captivating portraits of youth in traditional costumes our city's many ethnic festivals demonstrate Milwaukee's continuing commitment to honoring the heritage of those who built it.

August 15, 2011
CoPA 5th Annual Midwest Juried Exhibition

at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts
839 S. 5th St., Milwaukee, WI 53204
Exhibition Dates: 
December 2, 2011 – January 21, 2012

Open to all photography artists who reside in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota or Michigan, who may submit up to four images with a $35, non-refundable entry fee.  There is no entry fee for active/paid CoPA members, who may also submit up to four images. See story for a link to submit your entry.

CoPA’s 5th Annual Midwest Juried Exhibition
Walker’s Point Center
for the Arts
839 S. 5th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Exhibition Dates: 
December 2, 2011
– January 21, 2012

Exhibition Juror:
Catherine Edelman
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

July 27, 2011
Photo Book Show at Portrait Society Gallery in Spring 2012

Milwaukee's Portrait Society Gallery announces call for entries for a photo book exhibition - BS @ PS. Submission deadline: January 31, 2012.

INITIAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

Dates of exhibition: March/April 2012
Submission deadline: January 31, 2012

Portrait Society Gallery will host a photo book exhibition - BS @ PS - in 2012.

Now is the time to decide what kind of a book you've been longing tomake with all those photo projects you've been working on. Now is the time to pull some of that material together thematically and get it done so your project can be part of this exhibition.

July 19, 2011
In Case You Missed It

July's Schmooze was a CoPA Slide Slam, and five members courageously stepped forward to show their work. And what an enjoyable presentation it was!

Icon image by Ben Stuart

July's Schmooze was a CoPA Slide Slam, and five members courageously stepped forward to show their work. And what an enjoyable presentation it was!

July 14, 2011
Bill Mueller's Brain Child

Before conceptual photographer William Mueller ever picks up his camera – or even thinks about it – months may have passed while an idea festers, words play in his head, and sets are built. Bill’s brain children are born somewhere between sleep and dreaming.

Before William Mueller ever picks up his camera – or even thinks about it – months may have passed while an idea festers, words play in his head, and sets are built.

Bill’s brain children are born somewhere between sleep and dreaming, he half jokes in explaining the origin of his conceptual photographs. “I always keep a notebook handy for sketches and ideas. The same goes with my camera bag – always a notebook with me.”

A CoPA member since 2008, Bill has served two terms as a Board member,  vice president, and chair of the Exhibitions Committee.

He picked up a camera as a way to illustrate his writing as a teenager: the writing fell aside, but the photography stayed. Bill’s interests turned to conceptual photography about 10 years ago.

“I guess I’m a closet model maker although I did not make models as a kid,” Bill said in an email interview. “I collect things that trigger ideas that trigger an image title that triggers the final photograph.”

June 24, 2011
Photography Consultant Mary Virginia Swanson Speaks Sept. 24

Photography marketing consultant, author and educator Mary Virginia Swanson will give CoPA’s annual lecture Sept. 24. Her lecture will help photographers establish professional relationships and focused marketing efforts.

Photography marketing consultant, author and educator Mary Virginia Swanson will give CoPA’s annual lecture Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in UWM Arts Lecture Room ACL120, located at 2400 E. Kenwood Avenue.

May 23, 2011
'Gestation'

Conceptual photographer Bill Zuback is more interested in creating abstract metaphors for everyday life experiences than photographing those same ideas through a social documentary style of image-making.

When CoPA member Bill Zuback photographs his ideas he wants viewers to come away feeling satisfied but intellectually curious.

A case in point is Gestation, a series he created after a friend sent him eight plastic vending-machine babies encased in clear plastic capsules. The image of these creatures enclosed in womblike-bubbles may not be something everyone immediately relates to, but everyone has gone through ontogeny before entering the world.

May 13, 2011
CoPA Members’ Exhibit Calendar

If you would like to have information about your exhibit included in this Members' Exhibit Calendar, send an announcement to Jessica Zalewski, c0-chair of CoPA’s Communications Committee, at least two weeks before the exhibit starts. Please include your name, email or website address, exhibit venue with street and city address, the venue's website address, exhibit title, starting and closing dates and hours of the exhibit, and any additional brief information about the show.

If you would like to have information about your exhibit included in this Members' Exhibit Calendar, send an announcement to Angela Morgan, co-chair of CoPA’s Communications Committee, at least two weeks before the exhibit starts.

Please include your name, email or website address, exhibit venue with street and city address, the venue's website address, exhibit title, starting and closing dates and hours of the exhibit, and any additional brief information about the show.

 

April 28, 2011
Media Comment on CoPA's 6th Annual Members Photography Exhibition

Here are comments about CoPA's annual members' show from blogger and artist Eddee Daniel, Third Coast Digest and OnMilwaukee.com.

Here are comments about CoPA's annual members' show from Internet sites:

– CoPA member Eddee Daniel blogs about the show and reflects on CoPA and contemporary photography

April 6, 2011
CoPA Show Is First Exhibit for 13-Year-Old Member Allison Conrad

Teenager Allison Conrad debuts her photography at CoPA's 6th Annual Members Photography Exhibition.

Peering through the window of a low-flying plane can be an eye-opening experience. And when you’re young, it can be irresistible to want to capture the landscape below to savor exciting memories of a trip to an exotic island.

March 25, 2011
Steve Yeo Creates Digital Montages

CoPA member Steve Yeo creates montages through digital manipulation of elements from his photographs. The resulting images celebrate the visual interest inherent in natural forms, and their patterns of development. Blending familiar forms and details, Steve intends to create compositions with geometries and patterns that mimic the creativity that emerge in nature.

February 9, 2011
An Angel Flutters Its Wings: How the 6th Annual Exhibit Venue Was Found


Geri Laehn is known for her signature self-portrait: Half of her face shows. What has not been known, and only now has become apparent, is that the missing half may be an angel!

Geri Laehn is known for her signature self-portrait: Half of her face shows. What has not been known, and only now has become apparent, is that the missing half is an angel!

Since the close of last year’s annual members' show, CoPA’s leadership knew it had to find a new venue for the sixth annual exhibit because the P. H. Dye Building in the Historic Third Ward that had been the site of the previous five years’ shows would no longer be available.

February 8, 2011
CoPA Award Recipient, Jill Newton Moore, Uses Photography in Cameroon Schools

Jill Newton Moore is in Cameroon applying the vision and skills that won her CoPA’s  inaugural Member Artist Incentive grant.


See photo of Jill with students.

Jill Newton Moore is in Cameroon applying the vision and skills that won her CoPA’s  inaugural Member Artist Incentive grant.

January 24, 2011
Subway Texting

It happened in a fraction of a second when the New York City subway car door opened and Paul Matzner saw both men texting. He framed them and clicked, but it wasn’t until Paul returned to his Shorewood home that he realized the social statement he had captured.

It happened in a fraction of a second when the New York City subway car door opened and Paul Matzner saw both men texting. He framed them and clicked, but it wasn’t until Paul returned to his Shorewood, Wis., home that he realized the social statement he had captured.

“We live and work in close proximity, but we spend an inordinate amount of time not acknowledging each other when we are together,” Paul said. “Mass transit seems to heighten that isolation.”

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.

December 21, 2010
Mark Stall’s Photograph Is 2011 Eddy Award to Creativity Works

Mark Stall’s award-winning photograph, Round Lake Rowboat II,will be presented by the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center to Creativity Works!, an arts organization whose commitment to regional collaboration has created a higher standard of excellence in arts education and arts visibility in the region.

Mark Stall’s award-winning photograph, Round Lake Rowboat II,will be presented by the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center to Creativity Works!, an arts organization whose commitment to regional collaboration has created a higher standard of excellence in arts education and arts visibility in the region.