When: October 25th, 2023, 6pm
Where: LRMA Interactive Gallery
Suggested Donation $10
RSVP: https://web.spcollege.edu/survey/35891
Join us at LRMA on October 25th as we welcome photographic artist Barton Gilmore at 6pm.
Barton Gilmore’s career in art began by enrolling into photography classes at the University of South Florida in 1973. Upon receiving a BA Degree in Art in 1977 from USF, he moved back to south Florida and worked for a number of photographic businesses, financially sustaining himself while maintaining his sights on returning to school one day to further his education in the arts. After working at Berkey Film Corporation, American Express Division, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Color Lab of Florida, Dillon/Reynolds Aerial Photography and freelancing for various clients, he returned to his alma mater in the fall of 1984 to pursue a graduate degree in photography. He received a Masters of Fine Arts from University of South Florida in 1987. He has taught photography as art for over 35 years at various institutions including Hillsborough Community College, International Academy of Design and Technology and at University of South Florida, Division for Extended Studies. Currently he is a full-time faculty and lead professor in the photography department at SPC teaching on the Clearwater campus since 1991.
He says of his teaching philosophy:
“We are familiar with photography as a means for personal and creative expressionism, as well as its use as a tool for collecting and reporting ideas concerning all other human activity. More importantly, however, is its development potential both artistically and personally. As an educator, teaching photography both as an art form and a technical skill, instruction begins with enthusiasm for the subject and attentiveness towards students’ maturation in art and the field of photography. Students have the opportunity to become visually literate, utilizing a language processed in the photographic medium. By encouraging students to observe how their experiences influence their perception and direction in life, they begin to understand how to visually incorporate a sense of their own personal identity into their images. Recognizing the aesthetics of technological change and embracing the diversity of art, students have the ability to create images expressing and communicating their experience in relationship to the scheme of things in life.”
Gilmore’s work will be on view September 16 – December 17 in the 2023 SPC Visual Arts Exhibition located in the North and South Galleries.
https://bartongilmorephotography.com/