Info Ex

Information Exchange
with visiting curator Adéla Hrusková

Public Talk: Thursday, February 16, 6:30-8:00pm
UBS Financial Services Auditorium
1501 K Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC
There is no cost to attend, but reservations are required.
Email bmurphy@wpadc.org by Friday, February 10 to RSVP

Individual Meetings: Friday, February 17, 10am-5pm
Individual meetings are reserved for WPA members. Member artists, curators, and arts writers who are interested in meeting with Adéla Hrušková's should email a resume and link to their website or ArtFile Online portfolio to bmurphy@wpadc.org by Wednesday, February 1.

Washington Project for the Arts is excited to announce an upcoming public talk and day of individual meetings with curator Adéla Hrušková. Hrušková visits DC as part of InfoEx, an informal partnership between Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. Hrušková will hold a public talk on Thursday, February 16 at 6:30pm in the auditorium at UBS Financial Services at 1501 K Street NW. On Friday, February 17, she will hold one-on-one meetings with WPA member artists and curators.

Begun in 2008, InfoEx brings international curators in residence at ISCP to DC to present recent and upcoming projects and meet with local artists. By bringing international curators to DC, WPA hopes to initiate challenging conversations and create a forum for artists and curators to engage with each other's work.

About Adéla Hrušková
Adéla Hrušková's curatorial practice deals with the mediation of visual art and visual communication in the field of transfer and information processing. She is interested in acts of mediation, the situation of communication between the onlooker and the artwork, and the perception of the viewer. Hrušková's projects often engage with the communication process, spectator approach and imagination. Her curatorial practice focuses on emerging contemporary art, particularly photography and time-based media.

Hrušková is a curator, cultural manager and gallery educator who lives and works in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She holds a MA in Curatorial Studies from The University of J. E. Purkyn?, Ústí nad Labem, where she is currently studying for a PhD in Visual Communication. In 2008, she held a residency at the Czech Centre Bucharest. In 2011, she participated in the exhibition The Picture We Live In at the Gallery of Emil Filla, Ústí nad Labem, a presentation of works created by photography students from Czech and Slovak universities. She has created workshops and educational programs for independent galleries and curated several exhibitions of work by emerging contemporary artists.

Special thanks to our 2012 InfoEx sponsor, UBS Financial Services

No Artist Left Behind Professional Development Series:
In Your Best Light:How to Photograph Your Work

Monday, March 12, 6:30-8pm
Location: Arlington Arts Center, 3550 Wilson, Blvd., Arlington, VA
Cost: $30 for non-members, FREE to members of WPA and AAC
SPACE IS LIMITED, RSVP to Liz Georges at lgeorges@wpadc.org

Join photographer Greg Staley for a hands-on workshop where he will share tips and best practices for digitally photographing artwork. Greg will demonstrate proper lighting techniques and camera angles on actual works brought by workshop participants (first 10 to sign up, see dimension restrictions below). Participants will observe how a professional addresses the challenges of designing set up and lighting for different types of works and learn how to experiment with and tackle these key issues (lighting, set up, and equipment) as well as understand processing and output options related to file size and format.

If you are bringing work as a participant, it must be smaller than 24”x18”x12” if it is three dimensional, and smaller than 36”x48” if it is two dimensional. Participants bringing a piece of artwork may opt to have the work photographed by Greg Staley at the cost of $15 per shot, payable at the workshop.