Come by for the last day of the Memory Orchards exhibition. The gallery will be holding hours from 12-5pm. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and pickup.

BOOK RELEASE EVENT
Memory Orchards:

Join us Thursday, February 1st, from 6pm to 10pm as we celebrate the book release and companion exhibition for Memory Orchards, an anthology about photographers and their families.

Come take a walk through the exhibition, meet some of our book artists, and enjoy some snacks and karaoke! Earlybirds will get a chance to snag an early release physical copy of the book.

Because we will be ordering food for attendees and hosting artists in-house, we ask that you confirm your attendance in advance below.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Memory Orchards presents a broad survey of family experience, through highs and lows, through lust and loss, creating a survey of work which reflects our understanding of ‘family’ in this moment. The work is derived from long term documentary projects, from archive based explorations, from mundane interactions to moments of intimacy, from family snapshots to artful portraits. While the motivations of any given photographer are always distinctly individual, there are some foundational ideas which persist and are shared widely. Some artists write of their desire to remember, to document their own peculiar and beautiful realities. Others write of their desire to share their experience in hopes of adding to larger conversations about representation or identity. Taken as a whole, this engaging collection of work is complex and personal but deeply relatable.

Featuring 186 photos from 60 photographers:
Thomas Alleman
Hannah Altman
Debe Arlook
Niki Boon
Nancy Borowick
Tommy Bruce
Emily Buckley
Edgar Cardenas
Justin A. Carney
Velianna Catalano
Adrain Chesser
Daniel Coburn
Jess Dugan
Matt Eich
Kristen Joy Emack
Kev Filmore
Amy Friend
Riley Goodman
Elijah Gowin
Karla Guerrero
Rashed Haq
Jessica Todd Harper
Kate Izor
Susan Rosenberg Jones
Rachel Jump
Priya Kambli
Takako Kido
Gillian Laub
Judith G. Levy
Pixy Liao
Louviere + Vanessa
Monika Merva
Linda Moses
Nadiya Nacorda
Lydia Panas
Toni Pepe
Greta Pratt
Lissa Rivera
Emily Schiffer
Betsy Schneider
Maria Jose Sesma
Safi Alia Shabaik
Jennifer Shaw
Sarah Stellino
Zachary Stephens
Gordon Stettinius
Jerry Takigawa
Ron Tarver
Rashod Taylor
Rachel Elise Thomas
Al J. Thompson
Stephanie Thulin
Paul Thulin-Jimenez
Anne Vetter
Melanie Walker
Becky Wilkes
John Willis
Susan Worsham
Megan Wynne
Arin Yoon

Essay from Rebecca Senf PhD, curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.

Essay from Andy Grundberg, independent curator, writer, and educator.

Edited by Gordon Stettinius, founder and senior director of Candela Gallery.

Designer Jeff Louviere, New Orleans.

Printing in Barcelona.  Production coordinator is Matt Harvey, formerly of Aperture.

EXHIBITION OPENING:
MEMORY ORCHARDS

JANUARY 19, 2024
12PM - 6PM

Candela Gallery is thrilled to announced the opening of Memory Orchards, an exhibition supporting our latest publication project. This exploration of family has been in the works from founder Gordon Stettinius for the past several years and will be released in book form in February of 2024.

Featuring works by:
Hannah Altman
Niki Boon
Tommy Bruce
Daniel Coburn
Jess Dugan
Amy Friend
Elijah Gowin
Jessica Todd Harper
Kate Izor
Rachel Jump
Priya Kambli
Takako Kido
Gillian Laub
Linda Moses
Nadiya Nacorda
Lydia Panas
Toni Pepe
Emily Schiffer
Safi Alia Shabaik
Jennifer Shaw
Sarah Stellino
Rashod Taylor
Anne Vetter
Susan Worsham
Megan Wynne

Essay from Rebecca Senf PhD, curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.

Essay from Andy Grundberg, independent curator, writer, and educator.

Edited by Gordon Stettinius, founder and senior director of Candela Gallery.

Designer Jeff Louviere, New Orleans.

Printing in Barcelona.  Production coordinator is Matt Harvey, formerly of Aperture.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Memory Orchards presents a broad survey of family experience, through highs and lows, and lust and loss, creating a survey of work which reflects our understanding of ‘family’ in this moment. The work is derived from long term documentary projects, from archive based explorations, from mundane interactions to moments of intimacy, from family snapshots to artful portraits. While the motivations of any given photographer are always distinctly individual, there are some foundational ideas which persist and are shared widely. Some artists write of their desire to remember, to document their own peculiar and beautiful realities. Others write to share their experience in hopes of adding to larger conversations about representation or identity. Taken as a whole, this engaging collection of work is complex and personal but deeply relatable.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Featuring 186 photos from 60 photographers, including Thomas Alleman, Hannah Altman, Debe Arlook, Niki Boon, Nancy Borowick , Tommy Bruce, Emily Buckley, Edgar Cardenas, Justin A. Carney, Velianna Catalano, Adrain Chesser, Daniel Coburn, Jess Dugan, Matt Eich, Kristen Joy Emack, Kev Filmore, Amy Friend, Riley Goodman, Elijah Gowin, Karla Guerrero, Rashed Haq, Jessica Todd Harper, Kate Izor, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Rachel Jump, Priya Kambli, Takako Kido, Gillian Laub, Judith G. Levy, Pixy Liao, Louviere + Vanessa, Monika Merva, Linda Moses, Nadiya Nacorda, Lydia Panas, Toni Pepe, Greta Pratt, Lissa Rivera, Emily Schiffer, Betsy Schneider, Maria Jose Sesma, Safi Alia Shabaik, Jennifer Shaw, Sarah Stellino, Zachary Stephens, Gordon Stettinius, Jerry Takigawa, Ron Tarver, Rashod Taylor, Rachel Elise Thomas, Al J. Thompson, Stephanie Thulin, Paul Thulin-Jimenez, Anne Vetter, Melanie Walker, Becky Wilkes, John Willis, Susan Worsham, Megan Wynne, and Arin Yoon.

Essay from Rebecca Senf PhD, curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.

Essay from Andy Grundberg, independent curator, writer, and educator.

Edited by Gordon Stettinius, founder and senior director of Candela Gallery.

Designer Jeff Louviere, New Orleans.

Printing in Barcelona.  Production coordinator is Matt Harvey, formerly of Aperture.

BOOK RELEASE EVENT:
Thursday, February 1, 6-10pm
Join the gallery and some of the book’s artists in celebrating its long-awaited release! Earlybirds get a chance for an early release copy of the book, as well as a chance to talk with artists, imbibe in snacks, and sing some karaoke.

Saturday, August 5, 2023
@ Candela Gallery | 7-11 pm

Join us for our most spectacular event of the year! This year we hope to transport you to a night at the county fair. The evening entertainment includes…

Games of Chance!
Open Bar!
Blue Ribbon Awards!
Music by Walker & Friends!
Interactive Photo Op!
Carnival Munchies!
Backroom Bingo!
Terry’Brown's Shipyard Fishing Adventure!
Local Bake Sale!
Secret Beaver Bottoms!
Early Evening Origami w/ Waverly!
Possible Magic!

One of the most unique and important things we do in this exhibition is raise money to purchase works for a growing collection, which will one day be donated to the permanent collection of a notable photographic or academic institution. Your Gala tickets, raffle tickets, and giving levels ALL go towards the UnBound! Fund, which will support this year’s exhibiting artists through acquisitions for the Candela Collection as well as preparation and travel support.

$60 for Single, $100 for Pairs

STUDENTS: Active students may now purchase gala tickets for a $15 discount. Please bring your student ID along for check-in at the door to confirm your student status.

THANK YOU AND WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

SAVE THE DATE: BEERS & BINGO UNBOUND12! PREVIEW NIGHT

Candela Gallery is thrilled to be hosting our inaugural Cliché Bingo Night
along with a preview of our twelfth annual juried + invitational exhibition, UnBound12!

Join us Thursday, July 6, for a ticketed bingo night to kick off fundraising for our 2023 Candela Collection acquisitions from UnBound12!. One ticket gets you at least two rounds of Bingo, oodles of merriment, and the chance to win some very intentional prizes that are definitely not from our lost and found.

All Bingo Night ticket sales go directly to the fund for this year’s Collection acquisitions.

Our Bingo subjects will be our own beloved photography clichés - we will flip through submitted images and the cliché each image best represents will be determined by a jury. Because our Bingo sets have only 16 cards, we will offer two sets of 16 people the chance to play alternating rounds of bingo. When you’re not playing bingo, you may mingle, browse the show, or contribute to the jury which decides which cliche each photo best represents.

Our event will be limited to 32 slots, so claim your ticket while there’s still space!

Join Candela Gallery and Fountain Bookstore in welcoming Dean King into the space for the release of "Guardians of the Valley."

A new Dean King book is reason for a BIG celebration! We will see you at the gallery for a band, refreshments, and special guests!

About Guardians of the Valley:

The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir’s journey to become the man who saved Yosemite—from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.

About Dean King:

Dean King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books. He crossed the Sahara on camels and in Land Rovers while researching Skeletons on the Zahara, trekked the Long March trail in the mountains of Western China for Unbound, and was shot at while researching The Feud in Appalachia. His writing has appeared in Granta, Garden & Gun, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Travel & Leisure, New York magazine, and The New York Times.

He is the chief storyteller in two History Channel documentaries and is a producer of its nonfiction series Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning. An internationally known speaker, King has also appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, ABC World News Tonight, PBS American Experience, BBC Radio, and TEDx. He is a partner of Gum Street Productions, which is currently developing a feature documentary for Netflix.

About our special guest authors:

Poet Laureate of Virginia 2014-2016, Ron Smith is the author of Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, judged by Margaret Atwood “a close runner-up” for the National Poetry Series Open Competition, a revised and enhanced edition of which appeared in 2020. Ron’s other books have been published by LSU Press, including Moon Road, Its Ghostly Workshop, and The Humility of the Brutes. A frequent presenter at international conferences, in 2018, Ron was the “Featured Poet” at the International Hemingway Conference in Paris, where he also read new work to a gathering of modernist scholars in the Salon Gustave Eiffel on the Eiffel Tower. In June 2022, he was one of two “Featured Poets” at Université Caen Normandie, for its Modernist Structures conference.

James A. McLaughlin is the acclaimed author of Bearksin, winner of the Edgar Award. A native of Virginia, he now lives in Utah, at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, with his wife.