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May 12, 2016 Awards Ceremony at MMA

May 12, 2016 Awards Ceremony at MMA

The 2016 Weston Scholarship Awards Ceremony and ExhibitionMonterey Museum of Art – Pacific St. Opening Thursday, May 12, 5PM-7:30PM 559 Pacific St. Monterey, CA 93940 Exhibit Dates: May 12 – September 5, 2016

On Thursday May12, students from Carmel High, Monterey Peninsula College, Santa Catalina and Stevenson School will be showcasing their black and white photography in the 2016 Weston Scholarship Exhibition at the Monterey Museum of Art – Pacific St. This year 32 portfolios were selected from the 58 portfolio entries. Photographs from Aaron Moss, Andrew Hagood, Brady Barrow, Carmen Franks, Cecilia Diaz, Daisy Ramirez, Eduardo Sandoval, Edwin Franco, Emilia Juarez, Faith Camara, Gianna Nale, Grace Heidtke, Holly Scherner, Ilana Hagen, Jerome Wilhite Jr., Lane Olson, Marc Del Toro, Maria Ojeda, Natasha Tabibian, Onki Wong, Peter Moppert, Ruben Martin, Sabrina Hammon, Sharmaine Gutierrez, Sherry Gao, Sophia D'Amelio, Sophia Quevedo, Sophie Robel, Susana Calderon, Sydney Stewart, Valerie Villarreal and Victoria Mendoza will be on display in the upstairs gallery of the museum.

The show opens at 5pm for Scholarship winners, family, friends and members of the MMA. 6pm is open to the public. The Weston Scholarship will be giving out the awards at 6PM.

Thursday May 5, "Recognizing the Alumni Show"

Thursday May 5, "Recognizing the Alumni Show"

Weston Scholarship “ Recognizing the Alumni” ShowMarjorie Evans Gallery, 9th and San Carlos St. Carmel, CA 93923 Opening Thursday, May 5, 5-7PM Exhibit Dates: May 2 – 31, 2016 This May, the past winners of the Weston Scholarship will be sharing the Marjorie Evans Gallery with a select group of local professional photographers in a new exhibition “Recognizing the Alumni”. The WS will be showcasing prints from “The Weston Scholarship Portfolio”. A beautiful collection of top winning photographs, collected over the past 12 years, since the inception of WS in 2004. Joining WS will be local photographers, Kim Weston, Roman Loranc, Huntington Witherill, Ryuijie, Chuck Davis, Kevin Bransfield, Greg Mettler, Claire Lerner, Jerry Takigawa, Martha Casanave, Cole Thompson, Brian Taylor, Jim Kasson and Rick Murai. We hope you can join us!

2016 Awards is at the Monterey Museum of Art!

2016 Awards is at the Monterey Museum of Art!

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, May 12, 2016, 5-7PMExhibition, Public Reception and Awards Ceremony Monterey Museum of Art - Pacific St. Monterey, CA

Deadline for submitting portfolios - Friday April 22, 2016, 3-4 PM MPC Photography Department, IC 105

In conjunction with the winners’ show, we are pleased to bring you the Weston Scholarship Alumni and Friends of Edward Weston Show at the Marjorie Evans Gallery - Opening May 5, 5-7PM, Sunset Center - Carmel CA

New Rules for 2016 Scholarship

New Rules for 2016 Scholarship

Greetings!We hope this post finds all of you happy and healthy!. Now is the time to start thinking about the 2016 Weston Scholarship Portfolio Contest! We have changed a few rules and want to make sure you know about them.

PORTFOLIO NEW SIZE REQUIREMENTS - Photograph image size can be a “4×5”, "5x7", “8x10” or “11x14”. A portfolio of ten mounted (may be over matted) photographs is required. The photographs must be made, processed and printed during the YEAR of the competition by the applicant.

MAT DIMENSIONS Please Read Carefully when mounting your work! We will only accept 2 mat sizes of 11x14 and 16x20. Please do not put your photos in clear bags! If you need 11x14 mat board please contact Gina Weston - gina@kimweston.com please give plenty of time. More....

Ruben Martin “The Cello Project”

Ruben Martin “The Cello Project”

The images in this series titled “The Cello Project” created exclusively for the 2015 Weston Scholarship Contest are a culmination of an idea I have had for some time uniting the cello and figure. Two of the three distinct settings were utilized indoors using direct and indirect daylight as the main light source, while the third and final setting was photographed at night using incandescent lamps, exclusively.The importance of photography in my life has been immense as an artistic representation of creativity. Music also played an important role while growing up so in a sense the visual and auditory tonalities are interconnected in this series, each has nourished the other. Although the cello can only be ‘silent’ on photographic paper it ‘speaks’ emotion, sensuality and imagination as it repeats its curvature and identity alongside the natural, sensual but subtle expressions of the female figure.