FMoPA Annual Members' Show

08/10/2016

Congratulation to the winners of the 16th FMoPA Annual Members' Show!

CATEGORY: STILL LIFE
1st place- Joyce P. Lopez, Still Life with Carrots
2nd Place- Jayne Eikman, Adieu
3rd Place- Ron Giovannelli, Sharing Nature

CATEGORY: PEOPLE / PORTRAITURE
1st place- Terri Gross, Princess
2nd place- Michael Trefry, A Perfect Body
3rd place- Michael Sheenan, The Milkmaid

CATEGORY: LANDSCAPE / CITYSCAPE / DRONE:
1st place- Jim Miller, Tree of Life
2nd place- Veronica Stewart, Trinidad, Cuba: Una Ciudad de Color
3rd place- Christopher Wharton, Stop

CATEGORY: ABSTRACT
1st place- Koufas-Eisbacher, Into the Heat
2nd place- Mark Davis, Voodoo Door
3rd place- Jose Ney Mila Espinosa, Untitled

CATEGORY: DIGITAL
1st place- Agatha Whitechapel, Photo-Collage
2nd place- Koufas-Eisbacher, A Summer’s Evening… with Friends
3rd place- Susan Grzybowski, River Delta

CATEGORY: BEST IN SHOW
Jim Miller, Tree of Life

CATEGORY: MEMBER’S CHOICE
Leah Callahan, In a World of His Own

TIMELINE
Submission / Drop off period: May 1st – July 24th
Installation: July 25th – 28th
Award Ceremony: August 5th @ 5:00 pm
Show closes September 30th

07/25/2016

Last Call for Entries: FMoPA Members' Show 2016!

Last Call for Entries: FMoPA Members' Show 2016!

06/03/2016

Call for Entries: FMoPA Members Show 2016

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) is pleased to announce the forthcoming submission period for the annual FMoPA Members Show. From May 1st through July 24, 2016, members of the museum are invited to submit up to one physical and one electronic photograph for inclusion in the show. Entries must be original works produced by the submitting member using photographic methods. Entries will be judged by both members and a select panel for the Members’ Choice and Best in Show awards, respectively. This year’s Members Show will be on view in the FMoPA Community Gallery from August 5th to September 30, 2016.

01/25/2016

Congratulations, Melissa Lyttle! She was one of our judges for the 2015 Members' Show!

Melissa Lyttle Elected NPPA President #nppa #photojournalism https://nppa.org/node/73041

08/14/2015

Congratulations to the winners of the 15th Annual Members' Show!
Images coming soon!

*David Williams - Best of Show

*Agatha Whitechapel - Digital

*Americo Gonzalvo - Travel

*Leanna Sutton - Portraiture

*Don Burke - Nature/Landscape

*Latrenia Bryant - Documentary

*Jim Swallow - Creative Mediums

*James Graves - Conceptual -

*Dale Leifeste - Architecture & Members’ Choice

08/07/2015

Tonight's the night! Find out who won at 6:30 p.m.!

08/06/2015

We just picked up some gift certificates from Four Corners Framing for the Best of Show and Members' Choice winners! We'll be announcing the category winners at 6:30p and then the Members' Choice will be tallied and announced after the 7p artist talk.

08/04/2015

We judged today! The top secret results will be announced at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, August 7th!

07/31/2015

Meet the judges: Alex McKnight
Alex McKnight specializes in editorial, corporate and advertising photography.

Based in the Tampa Bay area, his love of people and their stories led him to focus on editorial and corporate work. His innate ability to coax his subjects creates powerful images from a single location in a limited time. From busy CEOs to the everyday worker, he utilizes whatever environment he is in to its best advantage creating striking imagery.

Alex has been a teacher, advocate and mentor within his field and received recognition from the Addys, Clio and Print awards, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Getty images.

Currently, he is the President of American Society of Media Photographers - Greater Florida Chapter (ASMP.org) and a member of The Chair’s Circle of pARTners of the Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts (TBBCA.org)

07/30/2015

Meet the judges: Melissa Lyttle
Melissa Lyttle loves chasing light and moments, both big and small. But more than that, she is committed to documenting the lives of people in her community and telling their stories in new and interesting ways.

Lyttle's work has been recognized by UNICEF, the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, POYi, the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Southern Short Course and the Alexia Foundation.

She was a student at the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2001 and has been honored to return for the last 12 years as a member staff. There, she has mowed the grass, documented everything in sight as workshop photographer and coached a team of 10 students, helping them find and develop story ideas. She did all of that just to give back and further the photo community.

In 2001, she started APhotoADay, an online listerv, so photographers could share pictures and have conversations with colleagues around the globe. Today, the site has over 2,500 members and is the foundation for an annual meeting that draws renowned speakers and attendees. Her work with APhotoADay has brought together a like-minded, supportive community within a larger community that's spread out and divided by interests, egos and geography.

Lyttle is a Floridian, through-and-through. Born in Tampa and raised in Jacksonville, she went to the University of Florida in Gainesville and got her first job in Fort Lauderdale at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. In 2005, she was hired by the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times), where she was lucky enough to work on everything from long-term documentary projects to breaking news to the “Dispatches from Next Door” series, all with an emphasis on the community she serves. She left the paper in late 2014, and is now freelancing and working on personal projects from her home base in St. Petersburg.

07/29/2015

Meet the judges: Megan Voeller
Megan Voeller is an art critic, curator and museum educator based in Tampa, Florida. She has written more than 250 exhibition reviews and feature stories for Creative Loafing as the weekly newspaper's visual art critic. As Associate Curator and Art In Health Program Director at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Voeller curates exhibitions (A Family Affair, 2015; Making Sense: Rochelle Feinstein, Deborah Grant, Iva Gueorguieva, Dona Nelson, 2014, co-curated with director Margaret Miller) and educational programs including a series of observation training workshops for students in healthcare professions. She also co-hosts WEDU Arts Plus, a public television program produced by PBS affiliate WEDU. Voeller holds a BA in studio art from Williams College, an MA in media studies from the New School and an MA in art history from the University of South Florida.

07/19/2015

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Members' Show

Call for Entries! The deadline is August 2nd!
http://membersshow.fmopa.org

06/19/2015

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is pleased to announce the forthcoming submission period for the annual FMoPA Members’ Show. From July 1, 2015 through July 31, 2015, members of the museum are invited to submit up to one physical and one digital photograph for inclusion in the show. Entries must be original works produced by the submitting member using either traditional or digital photographic methods.

This year’s Members’ Show will be on view in the FMoPA Community Gallery on August 7, 2015 through August 28, 2015.

Please see the detailed submission guidelines on our website: fmopa.org or membersshow.fmopa.org

Image: 2012 - Best in Digital: Mr. Quantum Singularity by Bob Dein

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06/19/2015

Dates ‹ Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Members' Show

Information on dropoff dates and times for the 2015 Members' Show can be found on the show's website: http://membersshow.fmopa.org/?page_id=4

Monday: 11 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Tuesdays: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Wednesdays: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Thursdays: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Fridays: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Saturdays: Noon – 5:00 p.m. Sundays: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

06/15/2015

The 15th Annual Members' Show is coming soon! Time to prepare your images! The opening reception will be Friday, August 7, 2015!

10/17/2014

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09/29/2014

Elger Esser – OWEN CRAVEN

First Friday at FMoPA

THE WORK OF internationally renowned, Dusseldorfbased photographic artist Elger Esser depict vast landscapes and seascapes that, on first glance, seem void of human existence. On closer inspection, the human mark on the landscape become evident – a rickety pier, a loan ferry crossing the channel, or…

06/09/2014

Congratulations to the winners of our 14th Annual Members' Show!

Travel: Veronica Stewart, "Fiery Flare at Jember Carnival"
Digital: Heidi Temple, "Transition"
Architecture: Sylvia Cimino, "Alhambra"
Nature/Landscape: Scott Bolendz, "Remnant Mangrove, Tampa Bay"
Documentary: Miguel Suarez, "Tin Sheltered Gratitude"
Creative Mediums: Lisa Sibley, "Downtown Sunday Morning"
Conceptual: James Graves, "Untitled"
Portraiture: Brian Pannier, "self portrait (la línea entre sed y serendipia)"

Honorable Mention: Cynthia Vickers, "Boyd Hill"
Members' Choice: William Carson, "Timeless"
Best in Show: William Carson, "Timeless"

06/07/2014

The entries are up on the walls and the judges have judged! We'll see you tomorrow evening to announce the winners!

06/05/2014

We have prizes this year from North Tampa Photo, KelbyOne, and Gutcher's Printing!

05/30/2014

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Members' Show

Call for Artists! It's time to enter the FMoPA Members' Show! Find everything you need to know here: http://membersshow.fmopa.org/

You can drop off your entries every day during museum hours from now through Friday, June 6th. The opening party is Sunday, June 8th. Hope to see you there!

05/20/2014

We have an updated address for the Members' Show: http://membersshow.fmopa.org

05/18/2014

Meet Selina Roman, photographer and one of our three judges for the 14th Annual Members' Show!

Selina Roman was born in Florida in 1978. Trained as a print journalist, Roman ferreted out stories of injustice in marginalized communities such as migrant farm workers and the poor. After working in journalism, Roman spent five years in Miami, where she immersed herself in the city’s fashion industry where she shot fashion campaigns for a local designer and honed her personal photographic style that mixed elements of fashion and reportage. Roman received her Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Florida in 2013. Her work, which questions ideas of perception, power, protection and femininity, is in numerous private collections and has been shown nationally and internationally.

05/08/2014

Meet Sabrina Hughes, Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Fine Arts and one of our judges for the 14th Annual Members' Show!

Ms. Hughes has curated several popular photography exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, including Pleasure Grounds and Restoring Spaces—Photographs of our National Parks and Picturing a New Society: Photographs from the Soviet Union 1920s-1980s. She was the co-curator of Forever in a Moment: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt and Sitter and Subject in Nineteenth-Century Photography.

She has taught courses in the history of photography, as well as many other subjects, at the Art Institute of Tampa and the University of South Florida, Tampa, where she received her BA in humanities and her MA in art history. She received the USF Outstanding Thesis Award in 2009-2010. As an intern at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., she conducted research for Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until May 4. Her scholarly article, “Imag(in)ing Paris for Posterity,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Future Anterior, Columbia University’s architecture journal.

04/25/2014

Meet Adam Justice, Curator of Art at the Polk Museum of Art and one of our judges for the 14th Annual Members' Show!

Adam Justice is a Virginia native who has nearly ten years of curatorial experience. In 2010, Justice moved to Lakeland, FL to become the Curator of Art at Polk Museum of Art and an adjunct instructor in Art History at Florida Southern College. Previously, he served as Chief Curator at the William King Museum of Art in Abingdon, VA. He received a B.A. in Art History/Museum Studies from Radford University (Radford, VA) and an M.A. in Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond after defense of his thesis titled Pop Art: A Case for Hyperreality and Revised Semiotics. As curator, Justice has conceived and contributed written essay for several exhibitions of work by contemporary photographers including Maggie Taylor (Gainesville, FL), Louviere+Vanessa (New Orleans, LA), Joshua Mann Pailet (New Orleans), and Jessica Lange (Santa Monica, CA). Additionally, he has been instrumental is acquiring major photographs for the Polk Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection by such modern and contemporary photographers as Dianora Niccolini, Jerry Uelsmann, William John Kennedy, Ansel Adams, André Kertész, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Birney Imes, Jessica Lange, Yousuf Karsh, and Louviere+Vanessa. In 2012, Justice was invited and served as an official portfolio reviewer during PhotoNOLA in New Orleans.

02/12/2014

Check out this project on power2give.org.

Support FMoPA's effort to build a walk-in camera obscure at the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts!

I just saw this project on power2give.org. Pass it on! #power2give.

07/11/2013

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

Congratulations to Mark Moberg for winning Best of Show in our 13th Annual Members' Show! His entry was entitled "Melancholy Rain."

The Members' Show is currently on display in FMoPA's Community Gallery until Sunday, July 28th!

06/22/2013

Phew! The show is up! We'll see you at the opening reception on Sunday!

06/21/2013

Today's the last day to enter the show! Bring your entries!
www.membersshow.com

06/14/2013

We're adding prizes every day! Gutcher's Printing, Reedy Photoprocess, Camera Cure and North Tampa Photo are all donating prizes to the winners!

05/30/2013

Have you been preparing your images for the annual Members' Show? We're almost ready to accept entries!

07/18/2012

12th Annual Members' Show Winners

07/16/2012

12th Annual Members' Show

07/13/2012

7/8/2012

07/09/2012

12th Annual Members' Show

Check out and purchase your photos from last night's Members' Show! Thank you, Photo League of FMoPA!

07/08/2012

Tonight - 12th Annual Members' Show Opening Reception, 5-7pm!

07/06/2012

Members' Show Entry is CLOSED for the year! Thank you to everyone who entered. We'll see you Sunday :)

07/06/2012

The 2012 FMoPA 12th Annual Members' Show

It's not too late to enter your piece in the 12th Annual Members' Show! If you don't have time to print and frame, no worries! Our digital entry category deadline has been extended to 6PM tonight. Go to www.membersshow.com and enter your favorite photo you have taken anytime in the past 2 years.

Hello world!

07/04/2012

Entries are pouring in for the 12th Annual Members' Show! Deadline is this Friday at 6pm!

06/27/2012

This Friday, June 29th is the first day to drop off your work for the Members' Show! Friday is the only late night to drop off until 8pm.

Following drop off days are during regular business hours until the deadline of July 6th at 5pm.

06/20/2012

Introducing judge Megan Voeller:

Megan Voeller has written more than 250 exhibit reviews and stories about art and visual culture in Tampa Bay since 2006 as visual art critic for Creative Loafing. Her writing has also appeared in Art Papers, NY Arts, d’Art International and Tampa Bay Metro. She holds a BA in Studio Art with honors from Williams College and an MA in Media Studies from the New School.

06/17/2012

Our website is back up and running! Sorry for any inconvenience. www.membersshow.com

06/15/2012

Introducing judge Todd D. Smith:

Todd D. Smith has served as executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art since 2008. He previously served as executive director of The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC; The Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, TN; and as president/CEO of The Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND. Earlier in his career, Smith served as curator of American and Contemporary Art at The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, curator of American and Decorative Art at The Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, OH, and curator of collections at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art from Indiana University in Bloomington. He earned a master’s degree in the History of Art from Indiana University with a concentration in Cultural Studies. His bachelor’s degree in Art History and Political Science is from Duke University.