American Hands Exhibition Podcast with Creator Sally Wiener Grotta and Author of The Vision Board book Joyce Schwarz
www.amhands.com is the website for Sally Wiener Grotta's new exhibition opening this week in Allentown, PA. It looks like an amazing collection of photo narratives.
By Joyce Schwarz, as many of you know who read this blog www.visionboard.info in my book THE VISION BOARD: the secret to an extraordinary life, I explain my basic success philosophy of GRABS -- gratitude, release and receive, acknowledge, ask & inspired action, be authentic and believe and sharing. And that may be why I was attracted to this exhibition called "American Hands" when I saw the info. For I've certainly learned that it is best to have your hands open and working than to expect a hand-out.
It was my good fortune to do a podcast with the creator of this photography exhibitgion Sally Wiener Grotta who you may know better as the co-host of the PHOTO GURU radio show. Here's how Sally describes her exhibition in her own words on her site www.amhands.com:
In American Hands,I am honoring Americans who keep alive the traditional arts and crafts that built our country’s dynamically diverse culture and established the underpinnings of our society. I am creating narrative photographic portraits of people who use their hands in traditional ways, doing things that are, today, typically done by machines (if at all).
My focus is on those crafts that produced functional items that were needed by their communities, rather than those that are done primarily for artistic hese include individuals as blacksmiths, weavers, spinners, glass blowers, potters, cobblers, manuscript illuminators, book binders and more.
And here's some info about Sally Wiener Grotta herself from her website:
About Sally
"A global treasure"
~ Pat Schroeder, former U.S. Congresswoman.
Photographer, digital artist, author, columnist and lecturer, all describe what Sally Wiener Grotta does. But to truly understand who she is, one must also apply the title Storyteller to her list of accomplishments and achievements. Whether it's a picture or an article, a workshop or a book, Sally's primary purpose, above and beyond communicating concepts, ideas and information, is to tell a good story that will entertain, amuse and enlighten.
Sally is credited with a number of “firsts” in the field of photography and digital imaging. These include a major one-woman art exhibit at the Apple Market Center in New York City, which was the first all-digital show at the Center. (Some say it was the first all-digital art show in Manhattan.) Other venues where Sally’s art has been exhibited include one-woman and group shows in numerous galleries and other venues, primarily in Pennsylvania and New York.
Several exhibits (in addition to those for American Hands) are scheduled for 2009 and 2010. To see some of Sally's work from other projects, please go to her online portfolioor The Wordsmiths Project.
~ Pat Schroeder, former U.S. Congresswoman.
Photographer, digital artist, author, columnist and lecturer, all describe what Sally Wiener Grotta does. But to truly understand who she is, one must also apply the title Storyteller to her list of accomplishments and achievements. Whether it's a picture or an article, a workshop or a book, Sally's primary purpose, above and beyond communicating concepts, ideas and information, is to tell a good story that will entertain, amuse and enlighten.
Sally is credited with a number of “firsts” in the field of photography and digital imaging. These include a major one-woman art exhibit at the Apple Market Center in New York City, which was the first all-digital show at the Center. (Some say it was the first all-digital art show in Manhattan.) Other venues where Sally’s art has been exhibited include one-woman and group shows in numerous galleries and other venues, primarily in Pennsylvania and New York.
Several exhibits (in addition to those for American Hands) are scheduled for 2009 and 2010. To see some of Sally's work from other projects, please go to her online portfolioor The Wordsmiths Project.
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