Update 9/14: The Freeman Patterson presentation will be at the new Verizon Auditorium in the Occoquan Building on the GMU Campus, Manassas. For those using GPS, the address is 10900 University Blvd., Manassas, VA 20110. As of 9/14 are sill seas available for boh he Friday night program and he all day Saturday seminar? Northern Virginia is very fortunate to have Freeman with us and no serious photographer should miss his presentations.
The Joseph Miller Center for The Photographic Arts is pleased to announce that the internationally renowned photographer, Freeman Patterson, will present two programs at the new Verizon Auditorium in the Occoquan Building on George Mason University Manassas Campus. The first presentation will be a Friday evening program on 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. Paerson last addressed members of the Greater Washingon 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 no limited o jus photographers. I 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 his program o 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 presented in Israel in December. This will be his first presentation of the program in the United States.
Registration fee: $30.00
Notes on 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, will always be new ways of looing a and discussing visual design).
Basic content: This seminar is about ing 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.
Regisraion fee: $75.00
For additional information or o register contact Joseph Miller Center, e-mail: furnfoto “a” aol.com. Phone: 703-754-7598. Please make registration checks payable to JM CENTER, 4811 Catharpin Road, Gainesville, VA 20155.