A 4 a.m. Piece in "Chase The Light"

Last weekend was the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW)'s "Chase the Light" exhibition/fundraiser. People around the world submitted images they made over a 48 hour period in early June.

Notice the image on the right: that's mine! And it sold!

I went out and made some photos during the 4 a.m. hour in that 48 hour window, and they accepted this image of mine from along the Mississippi River:

Here's how it appeared on their website before it sold:

I actually went looking for my image in the fundraiser thinking I might purchase it myself, but I happily found it had already sold. Thanks for including me, Photographic Center Northwest!

I was also a part of this event/exhibition last year: I had submitted a few images from the 4 a.m. hour of images from after the riots in Minneapolis and from around the George Floyd memorial.

Departmental Move

As an adjunct, I get moved around a lot. After the College of Visual Arts closed 8 years ago, I've been jumping around offices at Hamline University. But now, the Digital Media Arts Department is moving buildings, so it's time once again for me to clean out my office.

The hallway was filling up with trash and recycling as my colleagues were cleaning out their offices.


My personal corner of my old office.


Some 2-year-old pictures of my boys that had to come down.


My side of the office all cleaned out.


The other side of my shared office about 2/3s clean. She had a LOT of stuff - those shelves were all once full.


Peeking into the office I moved out of 2 years ago showed my recycling
hadn't been touched. I moved out of an office to let it sit empty. Oh well.

So I'm out of my 5th office at Hamline waiting on what my 6th will be.

I'm curious what our new space(s) will look like! My last classroom wasn't ideal for every DMA class, but it worked well for my photography courses. We'll see what the future holds!

Today

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

- Susan Sontag (in 1977)

Funny Photography T-Shirts

Here are some great photography-based tshirt from Luta:

Close-up of the last one.

Feedback From My Fully Online Class

My first fully online class wrapped up a few months ago, and it went well. I posted about recording lectures back in January, and I had a little update in February. I recieved good feedback all semester, and I wanted to share 3 bits of that here.

First was a note I got from a student as we were working our way through the "nerdy" lectures early in the semetser:

Maybe she was sucking up, or maybe she was sincere.

Second is a note I got from an advisor about a different student:

I really tried to give a LOT of feedback as they weren't getting any peer feedback.

And finally, here's a note after the semester was over from an advisor and program director. As I already mentioned, I really pushed out the feedback, and I also utilized one of the features of the class to give "kudos" when someone does something well, or to raise "flags" for specific academic issues. And I used those each week of class for students excelling or having issues:

I'll be teaching this same class in the fall, and now that I've done a LOT of the groundwork, it should be easier (and more fun) this time around!

Should I Make Art?

Catalog from the "Making Strange" Exhibition

Here are some images from the "Making Strange" catalog from the Praxis Photo Arts Center last fall:

An example of a spread in the catalog.

Here are some images of the exhibition, and here's when I appeared on their Facebook page (had I known that was going to happen, I would have dressed up a LITTLE).

Art Teachers in May