Tuesday, January 07, 2014, meeting: Board of Director’s Meeting. All members are welcome to come.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 7:00pm, Log-in night for the Nature & Wildlife Competition.
From Mike Di Stefano:
Spread Your Wings
Museum of American Bird Art Makes a Nest in Canton
BIRDS AS ART
Today, we continue to connect people to nature through art, using art to inspire and educate,†director Amy Montague said. The museum presents three to four exhibitions each year, with a wide range of artworks represented. An array of educational programs for all ages draws on the original art in the exhibitions and collections, as well as the varied habitats of the wildlife sanctuary. The museum’s current exhibition, BIRDS AS ART, is on display through Jan. 13, 2014.
The exhibition displays the bird photography of Arthur Morris, one of the world’s most renowned bird photographers. Museum visitors can stroll among the colorful, detailed and often whimsical images in the gallery. Arthur Morris has unparalleled technical and artistic expertise and design savvy; and he experiments widely. His photographs of birds call for patience, determination, luck and an understanding of bird behavior. Morris has won numerous national and international awards and is a Canon Explorer of Light Emeritus. Canon generously sponsored the exhibit. He leads instructional bird photography trips, writes an educational blog, and has also published several books including “The Art of Bird Photography” and an e-Book: The Art of Bird Photography II.
Visitors will see an Atlantic puffin peering straight towards the camera with tufts of grass in its orange beak, baby sandhill cranes hitching a ride on their mother’s back and Blizzard in Blue, a photograph that reveals hundreds of snow geese taking flight. Gannets in Love is the signature image for the show, and highlights the graceful curving profiles of a pair of seabirds passing a bright green piece of seaweed beak-to-beak.
When I looked around for the best photographer to inaugurate the museum’s new name, only one person was mentioned time and time again: Arthur Morris, Montague said. The current exhibit can be viewed every afternoon of the week, except Mondays, until Jan. 13. For more information, visit massaudubon.org/maba or call 781-821-8853.
http://www.massaudubon.org/learn/museum-of-american-bird-art
Exhibition, American Museum of Bird Art at Mass Audubon, Canton, MA
BIRDS AS ART/The Bird Photography of Arthur Morris
From Ted Lawson:
PSRI members – please take note of the following upcoming workshops:
– Winter Workshop with Joe Lefevre: February 6 – 9, 2014
– Night Workshop with Lance Keimig: April 18 & 19, 2014 (see attached Flyer)
– Cape Cod Workshop with Shiv Verma: May 14 -18, 2014
For more information contact Ted Lawson, lawsonlaw {at} cox (dot) net or
treasurer {at} psri (dot) us
