I’m giving an artist talk tomorrow, December 15th, at 4-5 pm at the Blue Raven Gallery in Rockland. I’ll be talking about the work in the current exhibition and all of my environmental advocacy photography…hope to see you there!
Presentations
Upcoming Camden Conference Talk
Svínafellsjökull #1, Iceland, Copyright Jim Nickelson. All Rights Reserved.
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at an upcoming Camden Conference free community event on November 5th, 2020, from 6:30-8 pm (Eastern). If you are interested, follow the instructions at that link to sign up and get the Zoom link.
The theme of the upcoming Camden Conference in 2021 is the Arctic, and I’ll be discussing my 2018 artist residency in Iceland for the presentation. I’ll also discuss how pivotal this trip was in my own artistic development and resulted in a more activist stance in my own photography.
I hope you can join in!
Zest Maine Magazine & Other Online Features
in News, Presentations
“Pyrotechnic #35”, Copyright Jim Nickelson
The most recent Zest Maine online magazine featured an interview with me about my photography as well as a selection of my work. It was great fun to take part in this article, and I encourage you to check it out and see some of the other great content on the magazine, too!
Embedded in the article is a Youtube video of my presentation at Pecha Kucha in Rockport, Maine back in January, which I think we can all agree feels like a lifetime ago. In this short presentation I talked about my recent project focused on climate change.
And last but not least, my work has been included in two of the features of the online blog What Will You Remember - way back in May in a post called “Into the White”, and “Splash” in August.
"Our Maine" Zoom Artist Talk
Pale Fire, Canto One III
I’m excited to participate in the Zoom-based artist talk for the “Our Maine” exhibition at Rockland’s Archipelago Gallery. You can register for the free event here, and the talk will run from 2-3 pm on July 8th. Without in-person big events like openings on First Friday, this is a nice substitute! And, of course, the gallery is open to visitors and maintaining social distancing guidelines.
Pecha Kucha and Other Things to Keep You Busy
Back on January 31st (which seems like forever ago), I was one of the speakers at the Pecha Kucha night for Midcoast Maine at the Rockport Opera House. If you are looking for an entertaining hour, you can find the video online here (I’m the last presenter, FYI):
If you are an artist and want to use this time to work on the business or marketing side of things, I highly recommend this collection of resources from the CMCA.
Another link worth checking out is this compilation of free art and art history courses from Don’t Take Pictures magazine.
The artist/photographer Amy Parrish has compiled a list of free calls for entries and such here.
Enjoy!
A Dangerous New World reading on Wednesday
I’ll be participating in a reading at COESPACE in Bangor this coming Wednesday, February 12th, at 6 pm. The readings and presentations will center around the recent anthology “A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis”, which includes one of my photographs.
I still haven’t seen the book and I look forward to doing so on Wednesday, as they will have copies for sale. You can read more about the book here.
The press release with more details (and a poster) is below:
BANGOR — "A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis" is a new anthology of work by 65 writers and 27 artists who responded to a call for essays, poetry and art work on the effects of climate change — on their lives, their communities, their families and their futures.
On Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m., former Belfast poets laureate Elizabeth Garber and Karin Spitfire and Camden photographer Jim Nickelson will join six other contributors at a reading event in Bangor at COESPACE, 48 Columbia St. Most recently, Spitfire’s poem “Liquidation” received the Outermost Poetry Award, judged by Marge Piercy, and Garber’s memoir "Implosion" was published in 2018. The recipient of many awards for his fine art photography, Nickelson has also served as artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park and Iceland’s Baer Art Center.
The collection is a complex mosaic of voices and visions, of thoughtful appraisals, careful observations, emotional responses, and scientific analyses, highlighting changes along the coast through the eyes of lobsterers and clammers, changes in the woods through the eyes of forest walkers and birders, images of natural beauty and its devastation through the work of poets, painters, photographers, installation artists, and sculptors. Edited by Meghan Sterling and Kathleen Sullivan and published by Littoral Books, the publication has a foreword by Governor Janet Mills.
Other presenters will include Kathleen Ellis, Annaliese Jakimides, Wendy Weiger and more. Singer/songwriter Lindsay Mower will perform new work, with refreshments and books for sale. Proceeds from all sales of the book benefit 350 Maine, a grassroots movement dedicated to solving the planetary climate crisis.
Pecha Kucha This Friday Night
I’ll be presenting on my Annals of the Former World project and my recent trip out West at this Friday night’s PechaKucha Midcoast Maine. The event will be at the Rockport Opera House — if you haven’t ever been to a PechaKucha talk, they tend to be very entertaining with a wide range of topics, each covered pretty quickly. Hope to see you there!
Here is the press release:
PechaKucha Midcoast will host an evening of visual storytelling Friday, January 31, at the Rockport Opera House, 6 Central Street. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., the program will begin at 7:00. The snow date is Saturday, February 1, at 7 p.m. Tickets, $5 (cash), will be available at the door; a reception will follow the program.
PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat” and a registered trademark of PechaKucha, Inc.) features eight individuals who each share their work, ideas and creative process in a slideshow of 20 images for 20 seconds each.
Presenting will be Kerry Hadley, Worthington Scholarship Foundation; Patrick Manley, Masons on a Mission (MOM); Lisa Mossel Vietze, macro flower photographer; Jim Nickelson, fine-art photographer; George Pearlman, ceramist; Lynn Snow, community school garden; Amy Williams, artist and meditator; and Julia Einstein, Laura Dunn and Kathryn SB Davis, collaborative Instagram project titled “Maine Flora: Three Views.” The master of ceremonies will be Donna McNeil.
Artist Talk tomorrow night (Aug. 16th)
My exhibition closes on this coming Sunday, and I'll be here at Pascal Hall (86 Pascal Ave. in Rockport) every day until then, 1-5 pm (except for closing early at 4 pm on Saturday). I do have an artist talk tomorrow night from 5:30-6:30 pm on Thursday, August 16th, so I'll be open late that day. Hope to see you during the exhibition!
Cosmos Exhibition at PhoPa Gallery
I'm incredibly excited about my upcoming exhibition at Portland's PhoPa Gallery that opens next week. The exhibition, entitled Cosmos, will have over twenty framed pieces from multiple of my bodies of work.
The exhibition goes from June 13th through July 28th, with an opening reception on Thursday, June 14th, from 5-7 pm. I'll give an artist talk on Wednesday, June 27th, from 5:30-6:30 pm. Hope to see everyone there!
Lecture at Acadia Night Sky Festival
Nightfall, Otter Cliffs, Acadia National Park
The annual Acadia Night Sky Festival takes place this coming week with a whole range of events, including a lecture on Wednesday night (Sept. 20th) by Nate Levesque and myself, each on our respective night sky photography. The lecture is free to the public and from 7-8 pm (and created in partnership with Maine Media Workshops and College). And while you are up there, you can check out many of other great events planned (and hopefully the weather will be clear for the night sky ones).
Presentation & Discussion at the Boston Athenaeum
"Untitled #20", East of the Sun, West of the Moon project
Tuesday night, April 18th (okay - that is tonight!), I’ll be part of a public discussion of science and photography at the Boston Athenaeum from 6-7:30 pm. Bob Hesse, Thibault Roland, and myself will each make a short presentation and then engage in a round-table discussion regarding the impact of science on our creative processes.
Talk at Capital Area Camera Club on April 4th
Mourning Moon I
I'll be making a presentation at the Capital Area Camera Club in Augusta, Maine next week on April 4th. The presentation is from 7-9 pm and is located at the Kaplan University Augusta campus, and is open to the public. I'll be talking about the progression of my work over the last 10 years, particularly with respect to photographing the night. Hope to see you there if you are in the area!
Article in Digital Output Magazine
February's issue of Digital Output magazine features me in an article about artists who do their own large format fine art printing. I'm not sure if the screen capture above is actually readable, but I'm excited to be featured in the magazine!
Presentation at Portland Camera Club on Jan. 23rd
I have a presentation coming up next week down in South Portland at the Portland Camera Club on Monday, January 23rd, at 7 pm. I'll be presenting my night photography to the group and based on previous experiences I'm sure it will be a good time. Hope to see you there!
Nightsong #1
Maine Media Workshops Presentation Monday (!)
From the "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" series
I’m extremely excited to announce that I’ll be making a presentation of my work at the Rockport Opera House this coming Monday, August 22nd, at 7:30 pm as part of the Maine Media Workshops Evening Lectures Series. I’ll be joining the legendary Jay Maisel as we both give presentations about our work.
I’ve attended many of these lectures over the years but this is the first one that I’m giving myself, and I’m honored to share the night with Jay. MMW puts on these presentations with instructors that are teaching that week and they are open to the public. I won’t make any rash promises about my own talk, but Jay Maisel’s presentation is always highly entertaining. I hope you can join us there!
Talk in Bangor Thursday Night (Apr 7th)
"The Tarn", Acadia National Park
I'll be presenting a slideshow of my photography at the Eastern Maine Camera Club Meeting this coming Thursday, April 7th, at 6:30 pm. The presentation is free and open to the public. The presentation will be in the Senior room at Bangor Parks and Rec, 647 Main Street in Bangor, ME.
I'm really looking forward to this presentation, if you are in the Bangor area, I'd love to see you there!
Pecha Kucha in Winchester, MA on October 5th
"Pyrotechnic #46", Copyright Jim Nickelson. All rights reserved.
I'll be presenting at the upcoming Pecha Kucha event hosted by the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA at noon on Sunday, October 5th. I'll be joined by 5 other photographers for the event.
I've done Pecha Kucha presentations before, but this will be my first one about my Pyrotechnic series. If you haven't seen these fast-moving presentations before, each presenter speaks 20 seconds about each of 20 slides.
Tickets are available until September 29th here. There is also brunch provided before the presentations. These events are always a lot of fun and great way to get exposed to new work. Hope to see you there!