April 2020 | visual art
Scaling the Dunes
Janet M. Powers
I grew up in a family of photographers – both my grandfather and father were award-winning amateur photographers, and my father was well known for his slide travelogues. I received my first box camera at the age of seven and haven’t stopped taking pictures since. Keeping up with changes in camera technology has been a continuing challenge. Now that I’m retired from fifty years of teaching at Gettysburg College, I’ve found time to submit photos for exhibition. My images have been accepted by regional juried shows in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado and Maryland. Among my five one-woman shows have been “The Balkan Backstory.” “Faces of Myanmar,” and “Barns of Adams County.”
April 2020 | visual art
Blue Ridge Steps
Stairway to Heaven, El Morro National Monument
Jeanne Julian
Jeanne Julian’s photography has been featured in galleries and art exhibits in Eastern North Carolina, where she is an enthusiastic member of the Coastal Photo Club. The juried exhibits “Lighthouse Stories and Tales of the Sea” (Staten Island) and “The Bicycle: art meets form” (High Point, NC) also have included her work. Several journals have published her images: she was the featured photographer in moonShine review (summer 2105), and her photos illustrate covers of Minerva Rising, Hartskill Review, Kakalak, and Shoal. Her photography also appears in two Nature Inspired anthologies; County Lines Literary Journal 2016; and the book Focus: Passages (2010). Her article “Lighten Up: A Walking Tour of the Luberon” was featured in the journal of the Photographic Society of America. Jeanne’s full-length poetry collection, Like the O in Hope, was published in 2019 by The Poetry Box Select. www.jeannejulian.com
April 2020 | visual art
Patchwork of Alders
Jennifer Pratt-Walter
Jennifer finds great beauty in ordinary things seen in a different or closer way. On any day you may find her stirring pots of poetry, music, gardening, animal care and digital photography. Jennifer is married and has three grown children and a small farm. She is a professional harpist and former RN.
April 2020 | visual art
View from Carol’s Window
Roger Camp
Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award-winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, New York Quarterly, and the Vassar Review. His work is represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC.
April 2020 | visual art
I Almost Missed You #1
I Almost Missed You #3
I Almost Missed You #5
Jupp Soetebier
Raised in the American Midwest in what was once known as The German Triangle, Mr. Soetebier’s work explores what effect his Deutsch heritage, ancestral family, and the myths and traditions of his peoples have had on memory and the way he perceives and goes about the world. Mr. Soetebier received his Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Florida in 1988 and taught drawing at the New World School of the Arts in Miami. He was an original member of the South Florida Art Center and later worked as a decorative painter in New York City and Los Angeles where he was also admitted into the Los Angeles Art Association. A frequent exhibitor at such events as The Other Art Fair by Saatchi, stARTup, and Conception; his work was recently included in the 79th Crocker Kingsley in Sacramento and a solo show at Acumen Gallery in Napa Valley. Jupp currently resides in Northern California with his wife and Leonberger dogs.
April 2020 | visual art
Dome
Eden
Michael Hower
Michael Hower is an abandonment and graffiti photographer from Pennsylvania. His experience with digital photography began seven years ago. Over that time, he has explored numerous abandoned places over the Mid-Atlantic. His work has been displayed widely in over a hundred and fifty exhibitions and publications, featuring in shows at the Biggs Museum of Art, DE; Pennsylvania College of Technology, PA; Pennsylvania State Museum, PA and Marshall University, WV. The artwork is not just the photograph. The process starts before the photograph and continues after it is made. It begins with historical research and ends with the telling of forgotten stories. Michael photographs history by looking for places of deep significance, like the place featured here in the series “Perspectives in Eden,” the Irem Shrine in Wilkes-Barre. The Irem Shrine, an example of Moorish revival architecture was long home to the Shriners and had been a preeminent public events space in Northeast Pennsylvania for decades. The building’s doors have been shuttered for many years, but new ownership hopes to breathe new life into this forgotten jewel. “Perspectives in Eden” focus on the expansive main events hall along with its antechambers.
