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Still Life With Snow |
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 |
Village Art show
features renowned
snowboard
photographers
By Catherine Billey
Mammoth Times Staff Writer
 A silhouetted Hanna Beaman by Christy Chaloux Submitted photos
The event will feature more than 20 contemporary snowboard photographers of all ages from throughout the United States.
The concept is to capture the emotion of snowboarding in mountains all over the world. Some of the top snowboarders who have made history in the sport will be on display.
But it’s also the hope of both women that the art event will be a unifying one drawing people of all ages from throughout the community during these tough economic times.
“It’s so important to me to try and give back in a creative way,” Herbenar-Cook, who lived in Mammoth from 1997 to 2004, told the Times. “It’s nice to have something that the entire community can share.”
Photography will range from action shots to portrait to landscape.
“I really left it open to each individual photographer as an artist to look at what they felt had been most inspirational to them and some of their favorite shots that they’ve captured.”
Cheyenne Ellis is the sole photographer from Mammoth.
“She is a very well-known portrait photographer. She shoots celebrities for women’s magazines, but has also done amazing portraits of well-known snowboarders.”
Trevor Graves, who helped shape the face of snowboarding in the late 1980s into the 1990s and who runs the NEMO design studio in Portland, Oregon, is also in the line-up.
Closer to home, Chris Carnel, who lives in Reno, also has roots in the early days of snowboarding. “He’s wonderful,” Herbenar-Cook said. “He helped with the last show. Every single one of his pieces sold.”
Others include Shem Roose, James Cassimus, Mark Gallup, Jonathan Humphries, Ryan Huges, Jeff Curtes, Jesse Loomis, Christy Chaloux, Danny Zapalac, Alisa Mokler-Harper, Tim Zimmerman, Embry Rucker, father and son photographers Mark Clausen and Matt Clausen, Ryan Boyes, Susie Floros, and Rob Mathis.
Art space donated by the Village
Herbenar-Cook is especially grateful for the space next to the Side Door donated by Betsy Smith of the Village.
“We couldn’t have done it anywhere else. It’s perfect for a large group show,” Herbenar-Cook said. “We were hustling on this one. I didn’t talk to Betsy until the beginning of April to confirm that we had the space.”
Once it was confirmed, she and True spent a month phoning and e-mailing as many people as possible.
“I was really pleasantly surprised and heartwarmed that every single one was open and excited about being involved with this,” Herbenar-Cook said. She noted that the photographers all took time to get prints made and framed and shipped by deadline.
Herbenar-Cook is now a public relations and event coordinator for Machine Design in Oceanside, Calif. but retains a strong sense of connection to Mammoth.
She and True collaborated three years ago on Après Vita, a Mammoth Art Walk in several locations. “It was a wild success. We got a lot of great feedback from the artists and the people involved.”
“I just feel really excited to be a part of this community,” True, a budding permaculturist and curator, said, “I’ve been in snowboarding for 17 years. I used to film snowboard movies and I still do freelance photojournalism.”
Lately she’s been focusing more on community involvement. Art was “a huge part” of her life growing up from grade school through high school. She is astonished that while she had an art class every day during her years in school, now kids get it just once a week.
The show is not-for-profit, which means that event coordinators will take just enough to cover exhibit expenses. The rest will go to the photographers or charities of their choice.
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