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Manipulated weekend! Just days away…

Manipulated weekend is now just around the corner! We’ve got a crazy week ahead of us at Castell Photography: we’ll be kicking of the week by concocting/finalizing our very specialty cocktails with our event bartender (Ali Wainright of the Rankin Vault), then onto hanging the very broad variety of work from the 32 participating artists, welcoming our juror to Asheville, and finalizing all of those important last minute details! We’ve been preparing for this weekend for months and can’t wait for all of the final details to come together, and to enjoy the photo related events with everyone!

Opening night! The opening reception for Manipulated will be a very special event held on Friday, October 14th, from 6-8 pm. Castell Photography is thrilled and honored to involve and bring to Asheville a juror of such caliber and relevance to contemporary photography as Ariel Shanberg is. This weekend of photographic festivities is not only a triumph for the gallery and the chosen artists, but also for the artistic community of Asheville and Western North Carolina.   

The juror for Manipulated, Ariel Shanberg, is the executive director of The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW). CPW is a nonprofit, artist-centered organization supporting artists working in photography and related media and engaging audiences through opportunities in creation, education, and presentation. In addition, he has served as a panelist for the the 2011 New York Photo Festival Awards, the National Endowment for the Arts, Media Alliance’s Media Action Grant, Light Works’ Regional Photographers’ Grant, and continually serves as a reviewer at prestigious national and international creative conferences and festivals, as well as an authoritative speaker at universities such as  Bucknell and Rutgers University. 

Shanberg will be travelling from New York to attend the opening, which will include specialty cocktails concocted and served by Rankin Vault bartender Ali Wainright, and live music from a local DJ.  50 works by 32 artists were chosen out of nearly 400 entries which were carefully selected by the esteemed juror. The 50 accepted works represent a wide range of photographic processes and unique hand manipulation from prints and/or negatives which have been painted or drawn on, scratched, collaged, burned, embroidered, woven, and much more. A Juror’s Choice Award will be given as well as Director’s Choice Award, and work from all chosen entries will be exhibited at Castell Photography for 6 weeks and on the Castell Photography web site for one year. These awards will be announced on the night of the exhibition, and will be online the following day. 

In addition to our opening reception even on Friday the 14th, the day after the opening reception on Saturday the 15th of October the gallery will be hosting portfolio reviews with Shanberg and 9 local and regional artists. Following the reviews there will be a social hour with Shanberg where attendees can ask questions, see the work of the 9 reviewees, and connect with both Shanberg and the participating artists. The social hour, held at 5pm on the 15th, is open to the public. 

It is the gallery’s hope that the Asheville community will embrace this unique opportunity and welcome Shanberg to our town by attending the Friday evening reception, as well as joining us on Saturday for the social hour — this very exciting weekend is not one to be missed! 

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