Light Work/Community Darkrooms is a public access photography facility located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center at Syracuse University. We are open to Syracuse University students and the general public through semester and yearly membership.
Information
- Location:
- Syracuse, NY, 13244
- Phone:
- 315-443-2450
- Mon:
- 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
- Tues - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Sun:
- 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
Favorite Pages
Events
1 upcoming eventSee All
- Embracing Eatonville
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gall...
Monday, February 1 at 2:00pm
Notes
3 of 23 notesSee All
- Community Darkrooms Open House/Special Event 12:08pm Sep 15
- Upcoming Openings and Events! 11:31am Aug 31
- Light Work Grant Winners Announced (May 18th, 2009) 12:47pm Jun 17
Photos
2 of 3 albumsSee All
Ellen Garvens Prosthesis / Transmedia Show (1/29/09)Created about 10 months ago
Our FacilitiesCreated on May 19, 2008 at 7:20am
No one has added fan photos.
Community Darkrooms
Are you tired of printing and hit-or-miss editing the same images five times in an attempt to get one good print?
For any imaging professional, one of the most important aspects of their craft is color. It follows that specifying, viewing, evaluating and printing consistent, reproducible color should seem to be one of t...he most basic needs. With Color Controls in place, the goal is to be able to accurately view the image on a computer display for evaluation and editing and then have color images reproduce consistently on different printers. As more and more technologies become available for photographers and designers, this task has become more complicated. Beginning with image capture and following through to editing and output, we'll show that with a minimum of hardware and software, you can produce prints that match your display and save you time and money.
Joe Brady is the Field Marketing Manager for Color Systems at the MAC Group in Elmsford NY, Including EIZO Monitors, X-Rite Color Management Systems, and Sekonic Color and Flash Meters. He s an active member of the PPA and has been involved in wedding, portrait and commercial photography for over twenty years. An award winning photographer and recipient of the Fuji Masterpiece Award, Joe has been teaching digital imaging and Photoshop since 1992.
Anyone attending the event will be eligible for a 25% discount on Community Darkrooms memberships, workshops, and digital services orders.
Wouldn't you like to see your prints match your monitor?
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, October 7th
Location:Community Darkrooms/Watson Auditorium
Community Darkrooms
Are you tired of printing and hit-or-miss editing the same images five times in an attempt to get one good print?
For any imaging professional, one of the most important aspects of their craft is color. It follows that specifying, viewing, evaluating and printing consistent, reproducible color should seem to be one of t...he most basic needs. With Color Controls in place, the goal is to be able to accurately view the image on a computer display for evaluation and editing and then have color images reproduce consistently on different printers. As more and more technologies become available for photographers and designers, this task has become more complicated. Beginning with image capture and following through to editing and output, we'll show that with a minimum of hardware and software, you can produce prints that match your display and save you time and money.
Joe Brady is the Field Marketing Manager for Color Systems at the MAC Group in Elmsford NY, Including EIZO Monitors, X-Rite Color Management Systems, and Sekonic Color and Flash Meters. He s an active member of the PPA and has been involved in wedding, portrait and commercial photography for over twenty years. An award winning photographer and recipient of the Fuji Masterpiece Award, Joe has been teaching digital imaging and Photoshop since 1992.
Anyone attending the event will be eligible for a 25% discount on Community Darkrooms memberships, workshops, and digital services orders.
Wouldn't you like to see your prints match your monitor?
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, October 6th
Location:Community Darkrooms/Watson Auditorium
You're Invited! When: Sunday, September 20, Noon - 6pm Where: Community Darkrooms, 316 Waverly Ave...
Community Darkrooms
Community Darkrooms is pleased to invite the public to a special event to celebrate the opening of the newly renovated digital services lab space. This renovation, which expanded the facility’s digital area and increased service capabilities (both in digital printing as well as customer assistance and care), was comple...ted in order to stay current and state-of-the-art with evolving needs of photographers.
Current Community Darkrooms members will be impressed with these improvements and how easy it is to produce high quality images, while people unfamiliar with the facility will have the opportunity to grow and learn more about photography and imaging in our space. Community Darkrooms is here to serve photographers just transitioning to digital photography who may need a helping hand, as well as experienced photographers who need large format printing and faster service.
Join us on Sept. 20 from noon to 6 p.m. and see how working in our renovated digital labs can help you maximize your images. This special event will feature facility tours, a special Digital Color Basics Seminar with renowned digital color and workflow expert Clark Omholt, free on-site cleaning of Apple laptops by Maccentrix, as well as portfolio reviews by Light Work/Community Darkrooms staff.
1p.m.—Digital Color Basics Seminar with Clark Omholt
In this fun and informative seminar, renowned digital color and workflow expert Clark Omholt of Spectraflow will teach participants how to get better monitor-to-print matching, starting with the basics of working with color spaces, calibrating your monitor and working with color settings in Adobe Photoshop and Bridge. Community Darkrooms’ Epson printers will be available to demonstrate throughout the seminar. Bring a digital file of your own to see how color management improves your print results!
Omholt is founder and president of Spectraflow (www.spectraflow.com), a San Francisco Bay area color management consultancy and provider of digital color printers. Spectraflow focuses on providing digital workflow solutions, including displays, printers, RIP software, and expert integration services. Omholt has been in digital color since the mid-1990s, with previous employers including Light Source and X-Rite. He is also a founder and board member of the San Francisco Digital Imaging Users Group (SFDIG) and has spoken on digital imaging and color at numerous trade events such as Seybold, PMA, and the PIA/GATF Color Management Conference. He earned a B.S. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, and an M.B.A from UC Berkeley.
Noon—FREE Onsite Cleaning of Your Apple laptop
The experts from Maccentrix will do a free onsite cleaning of Apple laptops. Attendees will also be able to pick up a coupon for a free diagnostic test from Maccentrix. The onsite cleanings will be first come, first served. There is no restriction on the vintage or warranty status of the Apple laptop machine.
Maccentrix (www.maccentrix.com) is CNY's premier Apple Specialist, Apple Certified Reseller and Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP, ACMT). Maccentrix is also the only reseller in the area to feature Apple Certified Support Professionals (ACSP), and Apple Certified Technical Coordinators (ACTC) on staff. Maccentrix brings over 25 years of experience to the table in Apple expertise in the CNY region.
Noon—Open House featuring Facility Tours and Portfolio Reviews
Mary Goodwin, John Mannion and Vern Burnett will be on hand to do portfolio reviews of your work, both digital and traditional printing! Also, get a free tour of our newly renovated digital services lab.
Special Offer—
Pick up a 25% Off Coupon During Your Visit
Coupon good for 25% off any Community Darkrooms digital services print ordered by October 1, 2009. (Offer valid while supplies last).
Raffle for Free 30 x 40” Inkjet Print—
Attendees can enter a raffle to win a free 30 x 40” inkjet print of one of their images. The print will be made by our Digital Lab Manager John Mannion. Enter, win, and experience the expertise available at Community Darkrooms digital services.
Community Darkrooms, located at Syracuse University, provides photographers and digital artists access to black-and-white and color darkrooms, a lighting studio and a digital lab with top-of-the-line scanning and printing equipment. Other services include high resolution scanning and digital printing services, as well as unique workshops. For 35 years, Community Darkrooms and Light Work have supported the artist in everyone—from hobbyists to professional photographers—by offering affordable facilities with valuable educational opportunities.
Join us to celebrate the newly renovated digital lab space
Time:12:00PM Sunday, September 20th
Location:Community Darkrooms
UPCOMING EVENTS In conjunction with the exhibition project Intermissions, featuring the work of Barry Anderson, please mark your calendars for the following events throughout September 2009 at various Syracuse venues...
Community Darkrooms
BARRY ANDERSON
Intermissions
August 14 - October 21, 2009
Gallery reception and artist lecture: September 29, 5-8pm
Barry Anderson’s videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.
Anderson's photographs an...d videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcomed artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus. Click here to see a list of the current venues.
Anderson’s colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.
The level of collaboration that is provided through this exhibition and programming is an exciting step for the arts in Syracuse and will bring a common thread through all involved spaces during the exhibition period. Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.
This exhibition will reach students and the community as a whole, including people who may not normally take time to visit a gallery—they may come across the project by walking by a video projected onto a window or building, they may drive past a billboard that functions as a piece of art instead of an advertisement, or they may encounter the project in the cafeteria or as a snippet they see on the Orange TV Network.
Light Work has been bringing artists and exhibitions to campus for over thirty-seven years. The public access darkrooms, galleries, and offices are located at 316 Waverly Avenue in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.
For more information about Anderson's installations, single-channel work, and still photography, visit his website.
Exhibit open August 14 - October 21, 2009
Time:5:00PM Tuesday, September 29th
Location:Light Work Main Gallery - Robert B. Menschel Media Center
And the winners are: Karen Brummund (Ithaca), Laura Adams Guth (Manlius), and Stephen Shaner (Syracuse). You can read more about the grants and the winners here...
Like many institutions, Light Work has been debating the next steps for our darkrooms and digital labs. As a creative space for artists working in photography and related media, we have always listened to the need of our artists...
Photographs by Sonya A. Lawyer will be featured in the exhibition Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer and Tamara Natalie Madden at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) in Syracuse...
Community Darkrooms
This photographic survey features Eatonville, FL, the oldest black incorporated town in the United States, as seen through the eyes of photographers Dawoud Bey, Lonnie Graham, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis. This exhibition was first staged at Light Work in 2003 and is the subject of Contact Sheet 124. Light Work... will re-issue a limited-edition portfolio from this exhibition.
February 1 - May 29, 2009
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery,
Schine Student Center at Syracuse University
Time:2:00PM Monday, February 1st
Location:Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery (Schine Student Center)
