The Museum of East Texas and Texas Conservation Alliance invite you to participate in the Life on the Neches photography competition. One hundred photographs will be exhibited at the Museum of East Texas from March 2009 through May 2009. Twelve photographs will be selected to travel throughout East Texas. Photographs may depict the river, its flora and fauna, bottomland forests, evidence of the region’s history, economic benefits, life on the river, the Big Thicket National Preserve or other refuges, and river-based recreation found in the Neches River region.
Photographs can be black and white or color in 35mm or digital images. No digitally manipulated photographs will be accepted. All works for judging must be 4”x6” prints.
Participants may submit up to five photographs. Deadline for submission is Monday, January 5, 2009. View competition details »
Nancy Hopkins Reily will serve as a juror. Reily is a photographer and author of Classic Outdoor Color Portraits: A Guide for Photographers; Joseph Imhof, Artist of the Pueblos; I Am At An Age; and the recently completed volume one of a two volume biography, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Private Friendship. Ms. Reily was a classic outdoor color portraitist for more than twenty years and has taught portrait workshops at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas where she had a one-woman show of her portraits. Her advance studies included an invitational workshop with Ansel Adams. Reily graduated from Southern Methodist University and lives in Lufkin, Texas.
New York based photographer Holly Henderson will also serve as a juror. Ms. Henderson’s exhibition, “Holly Henderson: Home in East Texas”, comprised of large format black and white photographs is on display at the Museum of East Texas through May 30, 2008. A native of Lufkin, Texas, Henderson graduated from UT Austin in 2002 with a BFA and then studied at the International Center of Photography and the Rocky Mountain School of Photography before working with photographers Annie Leibovitz and Gilles Bensimon. She founded her own company in 2002 and has worked for a diverse group of clients that include Alicia Keys, the Coachella Music Festival, Nike, the History Channel, and Lauren Merkin. Holly’s work has taken her to Africa, South America, and the Middle East.
For more information or to receive a prospectus, please contact the Museum of East Texas located at 503 North Second Street, Lufkin, TX 75901 or at metlufkin@gmail.com. For further information about this contest and other Museum events, please contact the Museum of East Texas at 936.639.4434, email metlufkin@gmail.com or view their blogspot at www.metlufkin.blogspot.com.
The Museum of East Texas is a non-profit organization whose primary mission is education through exhibitions of art and history. The Museum is located at 503 N. Second Street in Lufkin, Texas. For general information, to schedule a docent-guided tour, or for facility rental information, call 936.639.4434. Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Administrative offices are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free of charge.
Texas Conservation Alliance is a dynamic group of individuals and organizations protecting Texas’ rivers, forests, coastlines, wildlife, and other natural habitats. The Alliance harnesses the energies and experience of Texans from varied backgrounds who share a common interest in protecting our state’s natural resources. http://www.tcatexas.org
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