Saturday, July 9
Members bring entries 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13
Members bring entries 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday, July 14
Members bring entries 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Friday, July 15
Members bring entries 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Last day to submit entries
Sunday, July 17
Opening reception 5 – 7 p.m.
Voting 5 – 6 p.m., Awards 6:30 – 7 p.m.
Tuesday, August 30
Exhibition closes
Wednesday, September 7
Last day to pick up artwork before 5 p.m.
In-Kind Donors: Betsy Goode Isaak, Cellist | Buddy Brew | The Gelato Carte | Good Food Catering | Gutcher's Quickprint | Tampa Marriott Waterside | Tribeca Color Salon
Sponsors: Bay Color Photo Lab | Brian Adams PhotoGraphics | The Camera Cure | Eagle Photographics & Digital Imaging | Pezz Photo | Rob/Harris Productions
Offers: Framing Discounts at Four Corners Framing and Packinghouse Gallery | Printing Discounts at Gutcher's Quickprint | Photography Discounts at Pezz Photo and Brian Adams PhotoGraphics | Free Haircut at Tribeca Color Salon
Categories are broad and open to interpretation. Here are some hints. Choose a category that fits your interpretation.
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NEW! Digital Entry - don't want to print, frame, and hang? this category is for you!
Creative Mediums / Processes - mixed media, collages, extensive alteration, digital manipulation
Details - taking a closer look, abstracts, symmetry, patterns
Documentary - images that tell a story
Nature / Landscape - the natural world, mountains, oceans, broad views of skylines, wild animals, flowers, an ant’s view, etc.
Portraiture - studies of people or animals
Travel - memories of your trips, whether they be portraits, architecture, photojournalism, foreign, domestic
Riverwalk - this special category must include a portion of Tampa's Riverwalk in the image (the actual path)
We'll give you some ideas to help you choose your category, but it's really up to you to decide where to place your entry. For example, you may have photographed the detail of a sunflower in a field in Italy. Do you want the judges to focus on your use of detail? Or is it the epitome of travel for you? Perhaps it speaks of the symmetry found in nature. It's your choice! It's exciting to listen to the discussions your images spark as judges, and subsequent visitors, examine each category.
Best of Show: $300 in cash and $100 in prizes from Tribeca Color Salon and Gutcher's Quickprint
Category and Members' Choice Winners*: $60 in cash and $100 in prizes from Tribeca Color Salon and Gutcher's Quickprint
*In lieu of the above awards, the Riverwalk and Travel Categories will receive alternative awards from Tampa Marriott Waterside and Tribeca Color Salon.
Each winner receives a certificate. Awards and Honorable Mention are at the discretion of the judges. All decisions are final.
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The winners of the FMoPA International Photography Competition will also be on display during the Members' Show.
Members must bring their entry to the museum by 5:00 pm on Friday, July 15, 2011. You may join and pay your membership fee at that time.
A non-refundable entry fee of $33 per entrant ($23 for students) is due when you arrive.
All entries must be pre-wired for hanging. Please watch our video to learn how to measure and wire your piece. The sum of the height plus the width of the frame may not exceed a total of 55”.
Entries in this fine arts exhibition are judged within each of the seven categories according to print presentation, artistic merit, creativity, and technical excellence.
The exhibition and competition is open to all members of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. Members may submit one piece. Family memberships (and higher) may submit up to two pieces, but not more than one piece per person. Submissions must be original works produced by photographic methods (including digital) AFTER July 2009, an extension from the usual one-year window, and not previously exhibited at FMoPA. The artist must select one category for their piece.
We often receive requests to purchase artwork during the Members’ Exhibition. Members may price and sell your work as an additional fundraiser for FMoPA. Please indicate on your entry form if you would like to participate. Choose the percentage of the sale price that you would like to donate to the museum. Minimum donation is 50%. FMoPA will process all sales.
No Liability: By submitting an entry to this exhibition, participants agree that the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) will have no liability for the protection of submitted work or otherwise.
Acceptance/Use: All photographs may be accepted or rejected for display at the discretion of FMoPA. Photographs accepted for display may be removed or relocated from time to time by FMoPA.
Pick-up of Artwork: All photographs must be picked up by the participant (or someone with written/signed authority) by August 10 during regular museum hours. All work must remain for the duration of the show.
Lara Cerri has been a St. Petersburg Times photographer since December 2001. She received her B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University in 1991. Her first daily newspaper job was at the Napa Valley Register. She has also worked for the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press and the San Francisco Chronicle. She took a break in the middle of her photojournalism career to teach visual communication at Indiana University. She enjoys photographing everyday life in the community and environmental projects and also keeps her teaching tools sharp by volunteering in local schools’ journalism programs.
Victoria Cooke is the Director of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art at St Petersburg College and serves as the secretary/treasurer of the Florida Art Museum Directors Association. She received her M.A. in Art History from Tulane University and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware. Before making the move to Florida, Cooke was the Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs at LSU-Museum of Art and the Curator of European Painting at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Cooke’s publications include contributions to The Treasures of LSU, the exhibition catalogue Jefferson’s America and Napoleon’s France: An Exhibition for the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial and several articles and reviews.
Carol Upham received her B.A. from Northwestern University in 1957. Mrs. Upham is past owner of the Upham Art Gallery in St. Pete Beach. She was President of the Board of Trustees, 1999-2008 ; and founding president of The Friends of Photography of the MFA. She was a Friends of Art nominee, 1987; and nominated as Woman of the Year by the Women’s Council of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce in 2002. She has judged and lectured at the Tampa Museum of Art, Daytona Beach Communiy College, and at the Dali Museum and has contributed to the museum’s publication, Catalogue of The Collection.
