Monthly meetings are held every third Thursday, at the Freedom House, 3450 Hill Road, Boise Idaho. Unless otherwise noted, all programs are scheduled to begin at 7:15 pm.

MONTHLY PROGRAMS

Thursday, July 17th, 2008.

Agenda: Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 7:00pm at a different location. Please note that for this one time, we are going on a Road Trip and changing meeting locations. This months meeting will be held at the Visual Arts Collective, so be sure you read the details below.
Presentation:

IPW is going on the road this month!
In lieu of IPW's traditional monthly meeting at the Freedom House on Hill Road, we will gather to tour the new Visual Arts Collective (VaC), a mixed-use contemporary fine art gallery in Garden City where owner Anneliessa Balk Stimpert will provide an introduction to VaC, their goals and objectives as a multi-use arts facility. She will be joined by Bob Deely, who along with his wife Irene, owns Woman of Steel Gallery (located adjacent to VaC). Bob and Irene are working to establish an arts and cultural district in Garden City. One of the components of that effort is Creative Juices Arts and Culture, INC., which will bring more opportunities for our community to share and engage in the arts.
The VaC is located on the north side of Chinden Road, at 3638 Osage Street (between 36th and 37th streets). Be there or be square!

Visual Arts Collective
3638 Osage Street
Garden City, ID 837145
208.424.8297

The IPW Board meets at 5:45pm prior to the regular meeting. All members are welcome to attend.

**Show us your work**
If you have Prints or Digital Images you would like to share, please bring them to the meeting. For Digital Images, bring up to 5 digital images on a CD/DVD (sized 1024 x 768) for project.
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Note: IPW meets the third Thursday of each month. In addition to print critiques and sharing of work, each meeting features an educational component. If you are interested in presenting a program, please contact the IPW Education Committee Chair, Keith Walklet.

UPCOMING IPW PROGRAMS

C. W. Moore Plaza, Summer/Fall exhibit will go up on Tuesday, July 8th.

Please deliver your photos to the lower level conference room A on Monday, July 7th between 7AM-6PM, with a release time of 10AM Tuesday, July 8th

Members can park in our visitor parking (free up to 2 hours wo/a permit required), enter the lobby, take the elevator to the basement, take a left and proceed to conference room A. They may place their piece(s) on the table, sign in on the form (name of artist, name of piece, dollar value). The building will be locked at 6PM-7AM. Then on Tuesday morning, your team can arrive to bring the pieces to the lobby and hang the exhibit. I will have a step ladder available as well as the hanging devices for the pictures and putty for the tag cards.

Concierge Services
C. W. Moore Plaza
250 South Fifth Street
Boise, ID 83702
Desk: (208) 331-3516
Fax: (208) 947-0869 Attn: Ellen

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2008 Falcon Tavern Art Schedule. Tracy and Corey at the Falcon Tavern will appreciate it if we can exchange our work on the Saturday before the First Thursday of the month. They also like to have work hung fairly early in the morning, say between 8:15 and 9:00 a.m.

2008
June – June 28 Mike Leque
June 28 – August 2 Guest Artist of the Falcon Tavern
August 2 – August 30 Susanne Lomatch
August 30 – September 27 Allan Ansell
September 27 – November 29 Dee Miller
November 29 – December 28 Keith Walklet

2009
December 28 – January 30 Laurie Gibbons
January 30 – February 28 Cherry Woodbury
February 28 – April 4 Erin Cunningham
To be continued…

If you cannot make a month you have been assigned please let me know as soon as possible so that different arrangements may be made. If you wandering around town with friends (or even all alone) and need some good food stop in at the Tavern and enjoy a bite to eat. Support those who support us!

Allan Ansell
208-863-2808
araphoto@cableone.net

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Next 2008 PhotoCrawl: July 19th

Equipment and other Recommendations:
You will want to wear/bring clothing appropriate for the hot weather and possible cooling temperatures as the sun goes down. Weatherman says it will be hot tonight and the pavement, concrete and buildings hold in and radiate the heat. It is advisable to bring water, and we can stop at coffee shops along the way.
Camera Equipment, a tripod is a must; plus bring your favorite telephoto, macro and/or wide angle lenses. You can either use the timer on your camera, or bring a wired or wireless remote, to fire your camera. You may want to bring a flash, but most people will choose to shoot with available low light. You may also want to bring a flashlight.

We will meet at Flying M Coffeehouse, 500 W Idaho St Boise, then stroll through the streets and alleys. I am leading this month's PhotoCrawl and I am willing to stay out as late as 12-1:00am, depending on if anyone still wants to shoot that late. If you have not shot low light photography, it is an exciting world or light, reflections, different color temperatures, and of blurred movement. Low light photography in a downtown setting suits both color and B&W photography.
I am trying to get an rough idea of numbers, so if you are interested or might be interested, please let me know. If you have not tried low light or night photography, this is a great opportunity to go out on a hot July night with fellow photographers and give it a try. It is one of my favorite types of photography (thanks to Professor Brent Smith). Besides IPW, Mike invited some of his photography contacts; I also invited the HP Photo Club, and the new Eagle Photo Club. It will be very cool if we get a mix of photographer from the various other groups. Hope to see you there!

If you have any questions, let me know (Paul Pulley, ipw.communication@gmail.com). The next PhotoCrawl will be in September. Date and details for Septembers PhotoCrawl will be announce late August/early September.
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Digital Classroom - coming soon!
We are in negotiations and planning to develop several workshops on digital photography using a local classroom facility. This is an exciting development that has been in the works for several months. There are opportunities for 1⁄2 day, full day and multi-day workshops on Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, Painter, and the various specific aspects of each. It gives IPW a great opportunity to provide greater educational resources to its members and to the local and regional photographer community. Stay tuned for more details as we get them.
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IPW Forum
The IPW Forum is being upgraded sometime in 2008.

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EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES
 
Sandra Thompson, M.D., the spa owner, would like to feature other artists. Please visit the spa any time during business hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon-Fri) to see if the ambiance would work with your images. If so, let Diane know and she will set up a portfolio review with Dr. Thompson.

CW Moore Plaza, 5th and Front streets, Boise, date TBA.
The management is ready to give us a new group show with reception and postcard announcements. Please e-mail Diane (dronayne@cableone.net) or tell Allan Ansell or Keith Walklet at the meeting Thursday if you are interested in being part of it. To have your name on the show postcard, you must let us know by March 23 if you will be showing work. The reception and show opening will be in mid-April or early May.

The Garden City Library will feature a different community artist each month. We are looking for a cross-section of creative mediums. There is no price for admission to the exhibits. The art is offered for sale, and 20% of the proceeds will be donated to benefit the Library. For more information about the exhibit, and artists interested in participating in the program, may contact Judy Holcombe at 383-0022.

WEB SITES OF INTEREST

Blue Planet Photography 2008 Photo Tours
Mike Shipman has posted his 2008 photo tour schedule online at
www.blueplanetphoto.com/trips.htm. Locations for 2008 are
the Columbia River Gorge and Oregon Coast, Alaska, Vancouver
Island British Columbia, City of Rocks, and Olympic National Park.
Other, local tours may be scheduled during the summer. Check
The above link, or sign up for his newsletter, to be notified of
New tours and information.

Information, Inspiration and the occasional kick in the ass. http://www.artbizblog.com/ Some of us are on Alyson Stanfield's ArtBiz Coach email list. Now she has a blog as well as a newsletter. If you're at all interested in selling your work (or think you might be someday), she has valuable advice to offer. Here's a sample:
     What do you have in mind for your art business in 2006?  I'm not talking about the little things you have to do. Or even the medium-sized tasks and events you must tackle on the road to success. I'm talking about the big stuff. Big, hairy, audacious goals--or BHAGs, as they've been called -- are career-changing steps. They get you out of your comfort zone by forcing you to put yourself on the line, increase your knowledge, expand your creativity, and improve your level of excellence. So, what are your BHAGs for 2006?

INFO ON DIGITAL STUFF
If you’ve ever tried to answer someone’s questions (or your own) about digital terminology (“What’s a pixel?”) or equipment, check out http://www.geeks.com/pix/techtips.htm. The two most recent tech tips are on terminology and digital accessories. Earlier tips might be of interest, too.

SLIDES FROM DIGITAL FILES – ONLINE SOURCE
Mike Shipman sent this info to share with you: “Here is a link to an online source for getting slides made from digital files. I haven't used them yet, but what I've read has been positive. Their rates are pretty reasonable also, $2.50 for the 1st original, $2 for the first duplicate of the same image, $1.50 for 2nd duplicate, and $1 for each additional dupe. The place is www.slides.com.

The International Photography Guide at http://www.photoeye.com will be the most complete resource for fine-art photography on the web. It will include listings of educators, critics, curators, historians, equipment, suppliers, services, festivals, symposiums, museums, galleries, grants, awards, fellowships, residencies, organizations, associations, periodicals, publishers, schools, universities, workshops, and much more! We believe it will become the most useful online resource for fine-art photography.

West Coast Imaging has an informative web sitewestcoastimaging.com, (info@westcoastimaging.com) and will add you to its list-serve to get more tips.

Rocky Mountain School of Photography web sitehttp://www.rmsp.com/ (news@rmsp.com) also has good info and images.

http://americanart.si.edu/helios/index.html - Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum online photos (a major site for the study of American photography, from early daguerreotypes to contemporary landscapes)

http://www.moma.org/ - Museum of Modern Art, NYC