Through artists grants, community partnerships and exhibitions,
OverExposure creates photography projects that engage the community.

8.23.11

OverExposure Presents Its First Artist Fellowship

OverExposure is pleased to announce Becky Olstad as the recipient of its first Emerging Documentary Photographer Fellowship.  Olstad will use the grant to continue a documentary project which follows the Circle of Discipline; a Minneapolis-based organization that provides at-risk youth with alternative programs to address their physical, emotional and mental needs, primarily through the sport of boxing. Olstad will use the grant to strengthen and enhance the project by creating and exhibiting new work that documents the athletes’ lives outside the ring. Over the year Olstad will work with area experts to review her progress to date and present an exhibition of the completed work in August 2012.
Olstad was selected by a panel of art professionals that included Dona Schwartz, artist and an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and Brian Szott, Curator of Art at the Minnesota Historical Society.

7.20.11

OverExposure is pleased to present, “The Final Eight” a series of photographs that culminates the last phase of “What’s New”, our three year project that presents the changes and challenges of each Metropolitan Twin Cities neighborhood. Showcasing the work of Michael Dvorak and Jared Watsabaugh, these images represent the final eight neighborhoods in our project. Created from July 2010 through June 2011, the work presents the Armatage, Beltrami, CARAG, Cedar-Isles-Dean, Ericcson, Hale/Page, Kenny, Lind-Bohanon, Lowry Hill, Shingle Creek and Wenonah neighborhoods.

“What’s New”- The Final Eight-will run from July 22 – September 24, 2011

Closing Reception: Friday, September 23, 2011 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Christensen Student Art Gallery

Main Floor Christensen Center

22nd Avenue at 7 ½ Street

Minneapolis, MN.

Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Daily

July 18 – September 16 2011

5.30.11

OverExposure receives its second MRAC Arts Learning Grant for photography workshop

For the second year, OverExposure has received a $10,000 Arts Learning Grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Similar to last year, OverExposure will lead a four week workshop that will partner 5 OverExposure interns with students from Raices, a teen program of Centro, a social service organization that serves the Latino and Chicano communities. In July students will learn the technical and artistic skills of black and white film photography and through a series of assignments that examine identity, culture, and place present an exhibition of their work at Centro in August.

1.10.11

OverExposure receives MRAC grant to create an electronic exhibition of “What’s New” – See full story

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