MSU Professor Marita Gootee recently had two fine art pieces selected for Art Intersection鈥檚 twelfth annual international exhibition of images created using traditional darkroom, historical, and alternative photographic processes and methods.
Light Sensitive 鈥 highlighting artists working in traditional and historical printing processes 鈥 opens July 16 at Art Intersection, located in the downtown Gilbert, Arizona, Heritage District. An opening reception is scheduled for the show鈥檚 closing day, Aug. 27.
Photographic artist, educator and freelance photographer Elizabeth Opalenik served as this year鈥檚 juror, selecting 113 images for the exhibition.
Gootee's selected images, 鈥淢ending鈥 and 鈥淟ost Future,鈥 were created in a recent workshop on the encaustic photography process.
鈥淲ith the encaustic layering process, the images become more unique,鈥 she explained.
Gootee was able to attend the virtual encaustic workshop through support of a Mississippi Arts Commission Mini Grant, made possible by continued funding from the Mississippi State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
鈥淚t is exciting to have a product created out of the workshop accepted into this major exhibition,鈥 said Gootee. 鈥淭his is the beginning of a new series, and I find that exciting.鈥