Our next meeting is on Thursday, November 17th. Please mark your calendars!
7:00 - 7:30: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News.
7:30 - 8:15: Guest Speaker - Barbra Riley
8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Recent Work.
Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, November 15th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.
Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
- Critique
- You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and
you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come
prepared with your questions.
- Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
About our Speaker: Barbra Riley
Barbra Riley was born in Brooklyn, and raised outside of New York City in White Plains, New York. She studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and California State University, Sacramento where she received her BA and MA in Art.
For four years after graduation, Barbra ran her own art and design studio in New York City. She designed, photographed, and worked with printers and bookbinders on commercial projects while she continued to produce and exhibit her own water-media paintings, hand-colored photographs and works on paper.
In 1978 she accepted a teaching position at what was then Corpus Christi State University, now Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. While teaching at A&M-CC, she continued with graduate study at the University of Texas-Austin in the department of Photojournalism. In addition to teaching classes in photography, design and watercolor painting at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Barbra developed the digital curriculum in photography and commercial design for the Art Department, curated exhibitions for the Weil Gallery, conducted workshops in historical photographic processes, bookbinding and watercolor painting and led classes and workshops abroad. She has also contributed to articles about teaching photography for Photo*Letter, published by the Texas Photographic Society and Wildlife in Focus III, Coastal Bend Wildlife Habitat Education Program.
Barbra's photographs and paintings have been widely exhibited for more than 30 years. She has been included in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California. In Texas, she has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Houston Center for Photography, Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, and The Art Museum of South Texas as well as dozens of universities, art galleries and alternative art exhibition spaces. Currently, 18 large painted photographs by Barbra are featured in the new AT&T Center Collection of Art in San Antonio.
Locally, art work by Barbra is in the permanent collections of the Art Museum of South Texas, Matthews & Branscomb, 1st Community Bank, Bank of America and the Bell Library at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Her black and white photographs of Europe line the walls in Jason’s Deli at five locations in South Texas. Elsewhere in Texas, her work resides in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, Goldman Sachs and Southwestern Bell in Dallas, Merrill Lynch and Texas Instruments in Houston, and the AT&T Center and Republic National Bank, San Antonio. Nationally, she is represented in the corporate collections of Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City and Price Waterhouse, Los Angeles.
