Mary Whalen and Nancy Gagliano, Cut Flowers, Stones, and Paint Photopraphy
Aug 2010 to Sep 2010, Downtown Kalamazoo
Cut Flowers
If I could get a hummingbird to sit still long enough while it’s collecting nectar from my hollyhock plants, it would be in this wet plate collection of dreamy midsummer flowers. On black glass these, singular images appear as heirloom garden cuttings, just the thing I think about all winter long. The variety of flowers and each one’s tonal contrast is ideal for the 19th century photographic, wet plate collodion process, which renders an entirely new panchromatic scale in each plate. They look old fashioned, but they are newly created with an old process. Each photo is one of a kind. There’s no negative or digital file just a lot of practice and patience.
Stones
The flowers are delicate and complex in structure, but the stones collected to my pocket from a beach on the Aegean Sea contrast in their simplicity. Smooth, compact and weighty, they are small but seem monumental.
Mary Whalen
Paint
“a time in my life to float with gratitude, dream of my mountain, and experiment with artmaking.”
Nancy Gagliano
Ministry with Community, ENDURING SPIRIT-Stories and Photographs
Aug 2010 to Sep 2010, Oakwood Neighborhood
Reception on Thursday, August 12th from 5-7 pm
The portraits and stories in this exhibit are of actual people (“members”) served by Ministry with Community. Photographer Tim Wojtyniak set out to capture images that go deeper than the exterior; images that convey inner strength, joy, faith and determination. These compelling images and narratives, shared by the subjects, tell a different kind of story – we are individuals; we are real; and we matter.
Ministry with Community (“MwC”), also known as the “Drop-In,” is Kalamazoo’s only adult daytime shelter and resource center serving people who are struggling with poverty, homelessness and mental illness. MwC is open from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day of the year. Services including breakfast and lunch, showers, laundry facilities, lockers, telephone and mail access, social work assistance and employment transportation are provided in an atmosphere of dignity, hope and unconditional acceptance. Enrichment activities and support groups are also offered to empower people and help them move toward self-sufficiency.
Ministry with Community
440 N. Church Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
(269) 343-6073
www.ministrywithcommunity.org
