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Dana Duke Returns to Rockport

Dana Duke returns this summer to Maine Media Workshops to teach the popular Location Lighting class once again!

 

After a ten-year hiatus from teaching at the school, we are excited to welcome him back to campus August 22-28. In his workshop, students learn how to use existing natural and artificial light to capture the essence of a portrait, interior or street scene.

 

Dana has had a successful career shooting commercially with a studio in New York City for 25 years before moving to Sullivan County. He has photographed portraits and industrial situations for magazines such as Life, Discover, Time and Fortune, and has traveled the world shooting for major Fortune 500 companies and clients like AT&T, American Express and the New York Stock Exchange. 

VA Approves MMCollege Programs for GI Bill Funds

Post 9/11 GI BillThe U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has approved Maine Media College’s Professional Certificate Program and MFA degree program as education programs for the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Military personnel seeking training in the fields of filmmaking, photography, and multimedia may now apply for tuition assistance for their education at MMC through the VA.

The Post 9/11 GI Bill (also known as chapter 33 benefits) became effective August 1, 2009 and according to the VA website, is “the most comprehensive education benefit package since the original GI Bill was signed into law in 1944”. Veterans who performed active service duty after September 10, 2001, as well as current military members and eligible dependents, may be considered for the new benefits, which vary depending on term of service and other factors but can cover a significant portion of tuition, fees and books as well as a housing allowance.

"We are looking forward to welcoming even more students from the armed services to our campus," says MMC Dean Elizabeth Greenberg, "these programs are ideal for those looking to either make a career change to the media arts or to fulfill a the goal of achieving an MFA."

MMC Admissions Information

Registration for the 2011 - 2012 Professional Certificate program is open now. Applications for the MFA program are accepted on a rolling basis. For complete information visit the MMC website.

John Goodman Featured in Tate Modern Exhibition

MMW Instructor John Goodman has been creating iconic images for decades, and his work is currently featured in an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. 

 

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, on view through October 3, strives to call attention to images that reveal illicit behaviors and subjects through surveillance footage and sly photography. John's piece featured in the exhibition, Tremont Street #3, Boston, was taken in 1978 during the transformation of the Combat Zone in Boston. He captured the provocative vitality of the time and place with his photographs.

 

Some of Goodman's other images taken during the same era, including the one pictured above, were featured in a March 2010 exhibition entitled not recent COLOR at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. 

 

John has been teaching at Maine Media for the last 15 years and this summer leads his In Search of the Personal workshop July 25-31. 

Karen Kasmauski Completes Grant for Good Project

After being awarded the first "Grant for Good" sponsored by Getty Images, Karen Kasmauski has recently finished the project she set out to complete with the assistance of the grant. 

Her chosen subject was SOCM, which once stood for Save Our Cumberland Mountains, but now represents Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment. Karen documented the evolution of the grassroots organization as it addressed environmental, racial and economic issues.

 

In her official statement on the Grants for Good website, Karen says,  "I wanted to show the often-quiet process of change at the grass roots level. I wanted to show the long-term commitment those in the organization make in the interest of securing social change." 

 

This summer Karen co-teaches  Developing the Narrative Project, August 1-7, with her husband and National Geographic Magazine’s Managing Editor for Special Editions, Bill Douthitt. 

Multimedia Instructor Creates Moving Piece for New York Times

Nancy DonaldsonNew multimedia instructor Nancy Donaldson recently produced a powerful project for the New York Times entitled Fear Grips a Family. The piece describes the pain of an extended family in Colombia plagued by early-onset Alzheimer's, and how scientists hope to find answers by studying that family. 

 

"The story of this extended family is incredibly sad and was hard to work on, but I felt privileged to be a part of telling their story." Nancy says of the project. "For a project like this, collaboration is essential. We had a small team in place that worked together from the beginning of the reporting through the final editing of the multimedia."

 

Nancy will be at Maine Media Workshops for her first summer teaching Advanced Multimedia Techniques, July 25-31. Her class will explore the expectations, techniques and tools of high-caliber multimedia projects. 

New Instructor Bill Holshevnikoff to Teach Popular "Advanced Lighting" Course

There are only a few seats remaining in this summer's Advanced Lighting for Digital Cinematography workshop with new instructor Bill Holshevnikoff!

 

Holshevnikoff, an award-winning lighting designer and educator, will be joining the MMW community to teach Advanced Lighting later this month from June 27 to July 3. He has been lighting and shooting broadcast, corporate, and documentary programming for over 20 years. As a leader in lighting education, Bill's instructional videos are featured on ARRI's YouTube channel. His class at Maine Media is sponsored by ARRI and will focus on exploring advanced digital cinematography and lighting topics.

Maine Media Gallery to Hold "Four Visions" Exhibition in July

Four talented women have come together for an exhibition of infrared photography that will be on view July 5-25 at the new Maine Media Gallery.  Four Visions in Different Light: Susan Bloom, Jill Enfield, Elizabeth Opalenik, and Theresa Airey strives to show how many perspectives and interpretations there can be for one medium. 

Infrared photography allows photographers to create images that make infrared light-waves discernible, even though they are beyond the visible spectrum. By using infrared film or adapted digital cameras, these photographers allow us to see what was once invisible. The infrared images create a surreal and delicate world. 

Each of the four artists has decades of experience working with infrared photography. The work they present in the exhibition includes figure studies, landscapes, and photographic collages. Three of the women -- Susan Bloom, Jill Enfield, and Elizbeth Opalenik -- are MMW instructors.

The exhibition will be on view at the Maine Media Gallery from July 5 - July 25, with a closing reception on Tuesday, July 20 from 6:30-8pm. The Maine Media Gallery is located at 18 Central Street in Rockport Village, and admission is free.

Digital Film Colorist Mark Todd Osborne at MMW this Summer

Mark Todd Osborne will be joining the Maine Media team this summer to teach Color Grading for Film & Video, August 15-21.

Mark has extensive experience working as a Digital Film Colorist, having spent twelve years at the prestigious Company 3 where he colored movies including the award-winning Capote, Invincible, and The Jane Austen Book Club. He now works as a freelance DI Artist in Los Angeles. 

About his profession, Mark says, “A mentor of mine once told me, ‘Anyone can learn to operate coloring equipment—but only a small few, have an “eye” for color’.  I’ve spent 20 years in motion picture industry—14 of them, as a Digital Colorist—and I Iook forward to sharing what I’ve learned so far.” 

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