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Be part of Ike exhibit
By Jane Howard Lee
Contributor Published July 30, 2009 How would you like your photographs to be part of a historic photo exhibit?
Now is your chance for just that.
The Art League of Baytown is preparing to host an exhibit of photographs related to Hurricane Ike, an Ike retrospective, if you will. If you took pictures before, during or after Ike, photos that can in any way relate to the storm, the league wants your photos to be a part of the exhibit.
Did you take any photos while gathering a hurricane preparation kit? While stocking up on water, gas or non-perishable foods? Did you snap any shots while boarding up windows or making other preparations? Did you take pictures while on an evacuation route?
We want them.
Did you take any pictures while you and your family were hunkered down, listening to Ike’s fury rage outside? While you waited out the storm’s passage in a shelter somewhere?
We want those pictures.
Did you take photos during that uncomfortable period afterward, while so many of us were without power? Did you get shots of the family gathering to eat by candlelight? Clustering around the battery-operated radio trying to get some news? Eating those wonderful MRI meals? Waiting in line to get water, ice, gasoline or food?
We want those shots.
Did you take photos of damage at your home? Of damage spotted while driving your area? Or later, did you get some snaps while repairing the damage?
We want those photos too.
I am a member of the Art League of Baytown and am co-chairing this event with pottery artist extraordinaire Marsha Landers.
Just having a photo exhibit is a first for our Art League. Having an exhibit in the league’s Art Center of Baytown on Texas Avenue is another first. In September, we’ll all mark the one-year anniversary of the day Hurricane Ike changed our lives. For some, it took only a few weeks or months to recover. Some are struggling still. Some lives have been changed forever.
We want to mark that anniversary with this exhibit. We want to show the struggle, the heartbreak, the stoicism and the humor. Yes humor, because it was often that bit of humor that got us through.
Dealing with Ike was something that we all shared in, one way or another. This exhibit will remind us of all those things we shared, remind us of how we came together to help one another.
“Images of Ike - A Photo Retrospective” will be held Sept. 9 and run through Saturday, Oct. 3 and will be open during the Art Center’s regular hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
A reception will be held on Sept. 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
So please, gather your photographs taken just before, during and after Hurricane Ike came to call and share them with the rest of us. It is your chance to see your photographs take a place of honor on the walls of Baytown’s premier art venue.
The league will accept photographs from all community members age 14 and up. Entrants may submit up to four photographs. Work must be delivered in person to the Art Center of Baytown, 110 W. Texas Ave. in Baytown from Aug. 19, through Aug. 21 between the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 22.
There are no entry fees. It is not a competition and the only prize will be the knowledge that you helped put together a one-of-a-kind exhibit.
All photos submitted must be mounted or framed, ready for hanging. We don’t want anyone to refrain from taking part because of the cost of frames so we’ll take photos mounted tidily on sturdy paper, such as construction paper. We’ll only take photos up to 8x10 inches in size, plus the matting, framing or mounting materials.
Entries must be completed using an official entry form. These forms have three parts - one to put on the back of the photo, one on the front and one remains with the entry form.
We can’t say that we will exhibit each and every photo submitted. We may get just enough submissions and we may get 10,000 too many. The decisions will be solely up to the organizers of this special event and as one of those organizers I can say we will use as many as we can.
More information is available on the Art League’s Web site at www.artcenterofbaytown.org or find out more by calling the Art Center at (281) 427-5365 or by dropping by the Art Center in person. Be sure to check out the latest works and creations by local artists and artisans while you are there.
Jane Howard Lee is a reporter for The Baytown Sun.
Contributor Published July 30, 2009 How would you like your photographs to be part of a historic photo exhibit?
Now is your chance for just that.
The Art League of Baytown is preparing to host an exhibit of photographs related to Hurricane Ike, an Ike retrospective, if you will. If you took pictures before, during or after Ike, photos that can in any way relate to the storm, the league wants your photos to be a part of the exhibit.
Did you take any photos while gathering a hurricane preparation kit? While stocking up on water, gas or non-perishable foods? Did you snap any shots while boarding up windows or making other preparations? Did you take pictures while on an evacuation route?
We want them.
Did you take any pictures while you and your family were hunkered down, listening to Ike’s fury rage outside? While you waited out the storm’s passage in a shelter somewhere?
We want those pictures.
Did you take photos during that uncomfortable period afterward, while so many of us were without power? Did you get shots of the family gathering to eat by candlelight? Clustering around the battery-operated radio trying to get some news? Eating those wonderful MRI meals? Waiting in line to get water, ice, gasoline or food?
We want those shots.
Did you take photos of damage at your home? Of damage spotted while driving your area? Or later, did you get some snaps while repairing the damage?
We want those photos too.
I am a member of the Art League of Baytown and am co-chairing this event with pottery artist extraordinaire Marsha Landers.
Just having a photo exhibit is a first for our Art League. Having an exhibit in the league’s Art Center of Baytown on Texas Avenue is another first. In September, we’ll all mark the one-year anniversary of the day Hurricane Ike changed our lives. For some, it took only a few weeks or months to recover. Some are struggling still. Some lives have been changed forever.
We want to mark that anniversary with this exhibit. We want to show the struggle, the heartbreak, the stoicism and the humor. Yes humor, because it was often that bit of humor that got us through.
Dealing with Ike was something that we all shared in, one way or another. This exhibit will remind us of all those things we shared, remind us of how we came together to help one another.
“Images of Ike - A Photo Retrospective” will be held Sept. 9 and run through Saturday, Oct. 3 and will be open during the Art Center’s regular hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
A reception will be held on Sept. 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
So please, gather your photographs taken just before, during and after Hurricane Ike came to call and share them with the rest of us. It is your chance to see your photographs take a place of honor on the walls of Baytown’s premier art venue.
The league will accept photographs from all community members age 14 and up. Entrants may submit up to four photographs. Work must be delivered in person to the Art Center of Baytown, 110 W. Texas Ave. in Baytown from Aug. 19, through Aug. 21 between the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 22.
There are no entry fees. It is not a competition and the only prize will be the knowledge that you helped put together a one-of-a-kind exhibit.
All photos submitted must be mounted or framed, ready for hanging. We don’t want anyone to refrain from taking part because of the cost of frames so we’ll take photos mounted tidily on sturdy paper, such as construction paper. We’ll only take photos up to 8x10 inches in size, plus the matting, framing or mounting materials.
Entries must be completed using an official entry form. These forms have three parts - one to put on the back of the photo, one on the front and one remains with the entry form.
We can’t say that we will exhibit each and every photo submitted. We may get just enough submissions and we may get 10,000 too many. The decisions will be solely up to the organizers of this special event and as one of those organizers I can say we will use as many as we can.
More information is available on the Art League’s Web site at www.artcenterofbaytown.org or find out more by calling the Art Center at (281) 427-5365 or by dropping by the Art Center in person. Be sure to check out the latest works and creations by local artists and artisans while you are there.
Jane Howard Lee is a reporter for The Baytown Sun.