newsletter #9 - august, 2009

• Book Now in Production:

   
  My book of meetinghouse photographs is now officially titled: A Space for Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England. During the past 6 months I have scanned and prepared the images for publication, and the text has been edited both by a professional writer and a copyeditor. The publication date will be announced in mid-October, coincident with my photo essay in the November/December edition of Yankee Magazine (see below).  
   
  In addition to my Introduction and 77 duotone reproductions of my photographs, the book will contain:  
   
  
  • Foreword by Brent Glass, Director of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian,
  • Essay by Peter Benes Founder and Director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, and
  • Commentary by William Earle Williams, curator of photography and chair of the fine arts department at Haverford College.
   
  For more information about the book, and the traveling exhibition, please visit the Colonial Meetinghouse Project Website.
  
  Limited edition prints from this and other projects are currently available, and custom portfolios can be tailored to meet individual tastes. Please click limited edition prints for more details, and contact me for availability and pricing.

• Photo Essay in Yankee Magazine, November/December, 2009:

   
  A selection of my large-format black & white photographs from the Colonial Meetinghouses project will be featured in the November/December 2009 edition of Yankee Magazine, together with an article by Assistant Editor Justin Shatwell. The article not only tells the story of New England's colonial meetinghouses, but also describes me and my photography. I will send a brief announcement to my e-mail list when the issue is available.
  
  Coincident with the publication of the Yankee article, I will be announcing an availability date for my book, and a new web site that will provide ordering information for the book and a "look inside" feature.
  
  

• Featured Artist in Accent Home & Garden Magazine, Fall 2009:

   
  I am the featured artist in the Fall issue of Accent Home & Garden Magazine, a home decorating magazine based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and serving primarily southern New Hampshire and Maine, and eastern Massachusetts. The article will showcase a broad range of my work, including images from the Meetinghouse and other projects, and will describe my approach and vision for making my photographs.
  
  

  NEW: Click the magazine cover to view the digital edition.

  The article begins on page 46.

• Solo Exhibition at the Kimball Library, Atkinson, New Hampshire:

   
  During the month of October, 2009, I will have a solo show of my architectural work, including some of the Meetinghouse photographs, at the Kimball Library, located at 5 Academy Avenue in Atkinson, New Hampshire, my home town. For those of you who are located in this neck of the woods, it will be a good opportunity for you to see some of my work first-hand. Here are the details:
  
  
  • Show Title: Empty Spaces
  • Show Dates: October 1 - 31, 2009
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:00 to 8:00 PM
  • Artist Presentation: Thursday, October 15, 7:00 to 8:00 PM
  • Library Hours: Monday thru Friday 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Saturday 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, closed Sunday

• Juried Exhibition at Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, California:

   
  My Photograph, View from the Pulpit, Old Meetinghouse (1773), Sandown, New Hampshire was accepted into the juried group exhibition "It's Still Life" currently showing at the RayKo Photo Center, 428 Third Street, San Francisco, just down from SFMOMA. My work was chosen from more than 400 submissions. The show is up through September 22, 2009.  
   
  Hours are Tuesday thru Thursday: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM, Friday thru Sunday: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, closed Monday. Street parking is free after 6 PM.

• WGBH Television Production: God in America:

   
  My Colonial Meetinghouses website has attracted some interesting traffic over the past few months. One of the more interesting interactions has been with a producer from WGBH Television, where they are filming a 6-part series: God in America, to air on Public Television next year. They were looking for colonial meetinghouses at which to film several scenes, and after much deliberation and delays due to the lousy weather here in New England this past June, they wound up filming at the Ware Center Meeting House, pictured here, and at the Rocky Hill Meeting House. Watch for this series on your Public Television station next fall.

• DAR Presentation on November 2, 2009, in Exeter, New Hampshire:

   
  Another interesting opportunity that came my way via the Meetinghouses web site is an invitation to speak at a meeting of the Exeter chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The meeting will take place at 1:00 PM on Monday, November 2nd, 2009, at The Ridge at RiverWoods in Exeter, New Hampshire. The presentation is free and open to the public - both men and women! I will give a narrated slideshow of my 5-year project to track down and photograph the remaining "untouched" colonial meetinghouses in the 6 New England states, and I will be happy to sign copies of my Yankee Magazine article, which should be available by then.

• New Hampshire Arts Council Grant:

   
  I am pleased to report that, for the third year in a row, I have received an Artist Entrepreneurial Grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. This program funds individual artists to promote themselves and their art as a business. My award is to support the design and production of promotional material to attract and secure venues for the colonial meetinghouses Traveling Exhibition.