Update 9/14: The Freeman Patterson presentations will be at tthe new Verizon Auditorium in the Occaquan Building on the GMU Campus, Manassas. For those using GPS the address is 10900 University Blvd., Manassas, VA 20110. As of 9/14 there are still seats available for both the Friday night program and the all day Saturday seminar. Northern Virginia is very fortunate to have Freeman visit us and no serious photographer should miss his presentations.

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The Joseph Miller Center for the Photographic Arts is pleased to announce that the internationally renown photographer, Freeman Patterson, will present two programs at the the new Verizon Auditorium in the Occaquan Building on the George Mason University Manassas Campus. The first presentation will be a Friday evening program November 4, entitled: "The Call of Creativity". The second will be an all-day seminar on Saturday, November 5, entitled: "Seeing and Visual Design".

Mr. Patterson last addressed members of the Greater Washington photographic community in March 2002, when he presented an all-day seminar at the International Monetary Fund Auditorium hosted by the International Photographic Society.

Notes on the Friday evening, November 4, program: "The Call of Creativity" - Time: 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm.

This is a presentation for everybody and not limited to just photographers. It should be equally promoted to other visual and performing artists, educators, university and high-school students, designers of every sort, spiritual care workers, and everybody interested in a visually and intellectually stimulating evening. During the two and a half hours (including an intermission), Freeman will combine talking, projected images and music to examine the sources and nature of creativity, essential facts about creativity and ways of accessing the creativity that we all possess. 

Freeman has given this program to large groups of photographers, university students and as a keynote address to national conferences of university educators across Canada, in South Africa and New Zealand, and will be presenting it in Israel in December. This will be his first presentation of the program in the United States.

Registration fee: $30.00

Notes on the Saturday November 5, all-day seminar: "Seeing and Visual Design". Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Freeman's "Seeing and Visual Design" seminar has evolved over the years. (Because the growing process just never ends, there will always be new ways of looking at and discussing visual design).

Basic content: This seminar is about seeing and visual design. Visual design is the craft of visual expression and communication. 

        

During the morning, Freeman will be speaking about and illustrating (with projected images) the building blocks of visual design and, during the afternoon, principles for arranging them in picture space (composition). He will not be talking about the hardware and software of film or digital photography, except in passing.

        

The seminar should be promoted to photographers of every stripe, painters, people who sketch and draw, designers of every sort, gardeners, etc.

 

Registration fee: $75.00

For additional information or to register contact Joseph Miller Center, e-mail: furnfoto@nospam!#*&^#)type address - don't copy spam protection(*@.@nospamaol.com. Phone: 703-754-7598. Please make registration checks payable to JMCENTER, 4811 Catharpin Road, Gainesville, VA 20155.