First Friday

On the first Friday of every month, visitors to Tehachapi can experience the popular First Friday Artist Receptions and Art Walks.

This program offers displays of a wide variety of local Tehachapi art. Attendees can check out the historic downtown and Tucker Road shopping areas and meet many of the area's talented artists whose work is on display.

The efforts of local artists have painted Tehachapi as an emerging art town, thanks to the CrossRoads Gallery, featuring fine art, Tehachapi Art Center, offering art classes and supplies and the unique hand-crafted goods and emerging artists on display at Gallery 'N' Gifts.

For more information go to SilberStudios.Tv Were on the edge of the San Francisco Bay with our guest Camille Seaman, a breathtaking fine art photographer. In this video, Camille discusses her top photography techniques for taking better photos. Listen to her tips on getting quality natural lighting in photos, using the right camera equipment, and treating every object you photograph as if it’s a person. Her photographs have been published in Newsweek, Outside, Men’s Journal, Camera Arts, PDN, and American Photography and she has self-published many books. Her photos have received a host awards, including a National Geographic Award.

Photographers hopped aboard planes to fly thousands of miles to attend the opening reception of “Photo National 2011: A Survey of Contemporary Photography” on Thursday at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor . Others only had to drive a few minutes from their homes to celebrate their artwork on display.

“Photo National 2011,” UMMA’s first national exhibition, features 76 works by 34 fine art photographers from throughout the United States, and offers a diversity of contemporary photography processes and topics.

“As the show came together, we were really able to get a glimpse as to where photography is headed,” said UMMA executive director and curator George Kinghorn, pointing out the few black-and-white images and the abundance of color, digital and large-scale images.

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