MASS MoCA!!!

Hi hi Ladies - Here is some info on the one and only MASS MoCA, where we will be taking a YAC-wide field trip on Saturday March 10th. 

Remember to have your parents R.S.V.P. for you to the YAC Office (256 N. Pleasant St in Amherst) 413 253 2158!

Be sure to take a gander at the work that's up on the MASS MoCA website, there is a lot of beautiful work.

See you MONDAY!!!!!

Adamma

Alycia

Annalee

Brittany

 

 

 

I thought I'd post some of your work from the week before break - I can't wait to see what you have all created!

PLEASE BRING ALL GEV CAMERAS TO GROUP TOMORROW!!

See you then you fabulous artistes!

Yipee!!!!

We got a great review from a local business.
CHECK IT OUT HERE!!!!

The Venus Project

Wow! Check it out. These images are from a project that an Italian artist named Anna Utopoa Giordano is working on. She takes beautiful old paintings of Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love (Aphrodite to the Greeks) and photoshops them to have the body proportions of current day models. What do you think? What does it make you think of current standards for body sizes versus historical ones?

HERE is the link to see more of her work!

HERE is the link to the blog where I found out about this project!

Happy V-day You Great Gals!

Hey Gals - It was great seeing you and talking with you all yesterday. As always your poise and bravery and creativity inspire and impress me. To build upon our discussion about Valentines days from yesterday I thought I would share THIS link with you about it. It is for the V-Day website, a group that organizes to end violence again women and girls world-wide, and what better day to talk about this than today!?!

See you on Wednesday. Remember to all make some portraits, think about independent project ideas and bring your cameras in on Wednesday!

Make/Shift

Hey Ladies - We had a great meeting today! Here is the info about the call for submissions. I would love to help you compile work to submit!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: make/shift no. 12

Make/shift—a magazine creating, documenting, and engaging with contemporary feminist culture and activism—is seeking submissions for its twelfth issue (fall/winter 2012).

  

For Issue 12 (fall/winter 2012), we are seeking

--investigative journalism

--photojournalism

--profiles of feminist activists, artists, projects, and thinkers

--critical essays

--personal essays

--fiction and poetry

--art and photography

--book, maga/zine, film, art, and event reviews

--hybrid pieces

We are also seeking content for the following regular make/shift features:

--Everyday Actions: scenes of feminist action in everyday life (100 to 400 words)

--Make/Plans: listings for our international calendar of upcoming events (submit info for events occurring between September 2012 and March 2013)

--Participate: listings for our community bulletin board (calls for submissions, invitations to participate in community projects, and the like; deadlines should be ongoing or between September 2012 and March 2013)

Make/shift pays $.02/word plus two copies for prose, or a flat fee plus two copies for visual art and poetry.

Send pitches or full-draft submissions to info@makeshiftmag.com. Please submit no more than three poems or two pieces of prose at a time, and note that we do not publish reprints. Feel free to pitch multiple ideas at once. Please know that we are an all-volunteer collective, and it sometimes takes us quite a while to respond to all submissions--but we will respond once we've had a chance to thoughtfully discuss your work. We accept pitches and submissions on a rolling basis, but priority for Issue 12 will be given to those received by March 10, 2012.

Just so beautiful

These photos are just so beautiful.
To see the rest of them follow THIS link.

The Joy of Books

What Happens in bookstores at night: A great little video that you should all watch!

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/what-happens-in-bookstores-at-night/?src=footer

Gals - you are going to LOVE LOVE LOVE this!

Post from Kayleigh

The picture I haven chosen is the one I took while back where I had taken a picture of Boston’s state house. Where it was the time I was on a field trip in the 6^th grade. Where I had taken the picture I made sure that the picture had great lighting in the back round and the state house would stand out. While I was taking the picture I was thinking that I couldn’t wait to go inside and take a tour of the whole building. But that day was amazing because I didn’t just tour the state house I got to do a lot as well around Boston. So I learned as well that when you take a picture you have to make sure the picture has enough meaning to you as to when you or someone else looks at it later on like I have so you can say that I took that, which is a proud feeling to have after you have taken a picture.  

Post from Jackie

In this picture you are looking at an angel of my room looking at Christmas lights. They are a dying out yellow. This to me shows light with in the heart. This shows that the light is very peaceful and calm. I love to read a book and relax in my bed right before I go to sleep. There is like a softness in the photo where the light is shining I turned my flash of and there it is I got the softness in the photo. I love to take pictures of light and nature and of course family so this tied in very well. This photo is called “Lights In The Sky.”

Reminder : Weekend Task!

Hey Ladies -
So, for Monday if you could all bring in:

1 photograph that you think show a positive portrayal of a woman (in whatever regard you want, her body, her mind, her decision-making, her self -esteem etc...)

and

1 photo that you think is objectifying of a woman - something that turns her into an object and not a person.

For both of these you ca bring in photos you've found or that you've taken.


Here are some examples.

I love how calm and strong Mary J. Blige looks in this photo by Annie Leibovtiz. She looks confident in herself and I feel good looking at and relating to this image. HERE is the link.

I am unimpressed by this image and by the way the woman's legs are the only part of her visible. She actually becomes "baggage" in this advertisement. HERE is the link.

Just a reminder.........................

OUR FIELD-TRIP IS NEXT FRIDAY THE 10TH OF FEBRUARY!
IT IS NOT TOMORROW!!!

If Barbie were a real person....

Follow this link to read about a project that a young woman did to bring awareness to eating disorders.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/galia-slayen/the-scary-reality-of-a-re_b_845239.html

On identity and definitions

I hope that this can illustrate some of the things we were talking about during group today.
Here's the link for more info!

http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/

Post from Crystal!

Hey, ladies. Remember when we told you about H&M and their fake models? Well,
here's the screenshot from the blog I saw. You can see more by clicking the
link below. Think about what this means, for both the consumer and the model.
What does it say about H&M's expectations that they don't use a regular
mannequin, but a photoshopped one, or that they'll use only a model's face but
not her body? How would you feel if someone took one part of you and used it in
this way?

Here's the H&M article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/hm-fake-model-bodies_n_1129864.html#s520435