The Art League Gallery maintains a large collection of art books, offers various lectures, juror talks, artist demonstrations, and tours for gallery members, benefactors, and the public.
Upcoming Lectures:
“Exhibition Prints Using Ink Jet Printers with Color Management”
Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 1:00 – 3:00 pm in The Art League Gallery
Join photographer and Art League member, John Burgess as he discusses creating successful prints using ink jet printers based on his experiences and training in color management. Burgess has been a photographer for 30 years and is constantly working to perfect his printing skills. Burgess says that, as a photographer, he strives to control the entire process, from image capture to the exhibition print. As Ansel Adams said, "The negative is the score, the print is the performance."
Burgess studied with Freeman Patterson in Canada and has taken classes with Joseph Holmes and Josh Taylor, Jr. He attended Mike O’Conner’s advanced Photoshop class at Montgomery College and has taken Photoshop classes with Elliot Cohen at the International Center for Photography. He also studied with Jon Cone at his workshop, "From Photoshop to the Epson Printer" in Vermont.
He processes his RAW photos in Photoshop CS2 and prints with an Epson 3800 on Hahnemühle photo rag or Epson exhibition fiber papers. He has owned an Argus C44, a Pentax Spotmatic and several Nikons. His present camera is a Canon digital Rebel XTI which he uses with three "L" series lenses, a 180mm macro, a 28-70 F2.8 and a 70-200 F 2.8 zoom. For his bird photography, he uses a 2X telephoto extender with the 70-200 lens.
“How Start Your Own Blog For Artists”
Thursday, July 15, 2010, 7:00 – 8:00 pm in The Art League Gallery
Join July’s solo artist, Megan Coyle, as she talks about the development of her blog, http://blog.mcoyle.com/. Coyle uses her blog to explain her technique, market her work and define herself as an emerging artist. Megan has her BA in Fine Arts from Elon University and is currently part of the Visiting Artist program at the Torpedo Factory. Free of charge.
To register please call, 703-683-1780, or e-mail roseo@theartleague.org