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(April 2024) Rolls and Tubes at SOHO Photo Gallery
Meet 3/4 of the Collective that stormed on to Instagram in 2020, with rolls of toilet paper and a keen eye for the history of photography. Through paraphrase, quote and outright roasting, these artists made wide audiences laugh in a time when it was needed almost as much as the commodity they elevated. April 3rd, 5:00pm (EST) online.
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(March 2024) Talk about Publishing a Photo Book
Colleen will give an in-person talk at CalPoly Humboldt on March 26, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. (PST) in the Art Department on the case study of the Rolls and Tubes Collective's unusual journey to the Collective's 2021 sold-out book, and how to make a profit in photobook publishing.
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(September 18, 2023 - January 6, 2024) International Juried Exhibition
The Deluxe Edition of Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography and Expositions are the timekeepers of progress will be a part of the internationally juried exhibition Art of the Book & Paper September 18th, 2023 through January 6, 2024 at the Rochester Public Library with a reception October 18th, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. (EST)
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(October 11 - November 8, 2023) Artist in Residence
COLLEEN MULLINS has been invited to be an artist-in-residence at The Visual Studies Workshop October 11th through November 8th 2023. During her time in Rochester, she will work on her project Snap back to nothing and give a workshop on story ideation.
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(June 2023) Griffin Museum of Photography to host Rolls and Tubes Talk
The Rolls and Tubes Collective will give an online talk on June 20, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. (EST) at the Griffin Museum of Photography
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(June 2023) Griffin Museum of Photography to host Rolls and Tubes Exhibition
The traveling exhibition of Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography will be on view at the Griffin Museum of Photography June 1 - July 9, 2023. An opening reception will be held Friday, June 2, 2023, 6:00-8:00 p.m. (EST)
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(March 2023) New Exhibition for Deluxe Edition
The Deluxe Edition of Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography has been selected by artist Lesley Dill to be exhibited in The Visual Voice: Artists Books and Broadsides at the Bernard A. Zucckerman Museum of Art, March 14 - April 8, 2023.
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(February 2023) Chung 24 Gallery Exhibition Opens
Chung 24 Gallery will feature the traveling exhibition Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography, February 1 - March 11, 2023
RECEPTION: February 4, 2-5pm
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(September 2022) Expositions Book Semi-Finalist in MCBA Prize
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress* has been selected as a Semi-Finalist for the 2022 MCBA Prize an international award for artist's books.
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(September 2022) Expositions Book Featured in GA Exhibition
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress and the Deluxe Edition of Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography have been accepted into The Art of the Book v10, running September 8 - October 31, 2022.
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(August 2022) Watercolors Acquired in Fundraising Event
Two limited edition prints from the State-by-State watercolor project I've been working on since 2017 are featured in a fundraiser at Gallery Kayafas in Boston August 3-13, 2022 to raise funds for Planned Parenthood.
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(July 2022) Expositions are the timekeepers of progress Acquired by U of A
*Expositions are the timekeepers of progress *has been acquired by the University of Arizona Special Collections.
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(March 2022) Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography Shortlisted
The Rolls and Tubes Collective's book has been shortlisted by the 2022 Belfast Photo Festival!
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(February 2022) DELUXE EDITION ANNOUNCED
Rolls and Tubes Collective announces the pre-sale of a Deluxe Edition of the highly collectible publication released last year. Click here to see it!
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(March 2022) Rolls & Tubes Collective Lecture
The Rolls and Tubes Collective will give a lecture online at the Griffin Museum of Photography on March 17, at 6:30 EST. Register here.
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(October 2021) Mullins's Bone of Her Nose featured in exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Art in Winchester, MA
The Bone of Her Nose will be featured in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photographic Art in Winchester, MA, October 26 - December 20, 2021 as a part of the exhibition Home Views. A lecture in conjunction with this exhibition will take place November 4, 7-8 EST. Register here.
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(October 2021) Mullins featured at CLICK Photo Festival in Durham, NC.
Pandemic Frenzy, 2020 / after Anna and Bernhard Blume, Kitchen Frenzy, 1986 has been selected by Jennifer Dasal and de'Angelo Dia for Persevere an outdoor exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park.
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(Fall 2021) Rolls & Tubes Collective First Book Sells out in 19 Hours!
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Rolls and Tubes Collective's highly anticipated book Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography was released and sold out in 19 hours! See what you missed...---
(September 2021) Rolls & Tubes Solo Exhibition Opens!
Rolls and Tubes is participating in a solo exhibition as a part of the 20/20 Photo Fest in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center! The exhibition runs September 21 - December 30, 2021.
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(June 2021) Mullins to Participate in UNBOUND 10!
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress was selected for the Candela Books + Gallery annual fundraiser/collectors event UnBound 10! You can participate, even from a distance, in buying great art and supporting this collection!---
(Spring 2021) Mullins Featured in Spring Local and International Exhibitions
Works from the Rolls & Tubes Collective were on view at PARC, Format Festival, London College of Communication March 12 - April 11, 2021 and February 19 - April 9, 2021 DVC Art Gallery in Pleasant Hill, California.---
(December 2020) Exhibitions in New Orleans
I will have work on view in A Yellow Rose Project at The Front in the Bywater, and in the On the Line exhibition at NOPA Gallery in Riverbend through January.---
(January 2021) Mullins Featured in Richmond, VA Exhibition
A piece from the Rolls & Tubes Collective Project will be on view at Candela Books & Gallery in Richmond, VA January 8 - February 20, 2021.---
(December 2020) Mullins' Rolls & Tubes Work in Bay Area Current(ly)
My work with the Rolls & Tubes Collective was selected for the San Francisco Photo Alliance's Bay Area Currennt(ly) exhibition, and the Collective was selected for a Juror Distinction by Ann Jastrab, who interview the Collective on December 6th, 2020.
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(March 2020) Mullins nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2020
I was honored to have been nominated for the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award.
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(September 2020) Exhibition: Women of Leisure/Action
Women of Leisure/Action, featuring work from Pictures of the Floating World and Women March, will be on view at The Dental Gallery, 2825 California St., San Francisco, September 1 - December 1, 2020
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(April 2020) Work featured in article in Musee Magazine
A selection of work was featured in Musee Magazine's series Quarantine Chronicles: Rolls and Tubes.
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(April 2020) Work featured in article in Quarantine Picture Show
A selection of work was featured in Quarantine Picture Show: Rolls & Tubes in SF Camerawork Online Discoveries.
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(April 2020) Work featured in article on HAFNY
A selection of work was featured in Famous Photographs Remade in Toilet Paper on the Humble Arts Foundation Stories & Interviews section.
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(October 2019)
Mullins delivered a paper entitled, "Exposition: The Short Interesting Life of the Patigian McKinley" at the SECAC Conference in Chattanooga, TN, on a panel of art historians, entitled, "Power to the People? Displaying Portraits of Public Political Figures."---
(December 2019) Work featured in fundraising exhibition in New Orleans to benefit SOULnola
A small selection of work from Elysium will be on view in a solo exhibition titled Urban Forest at the gorgeous Hey Coffee Roastery on the beautiful LaFitte Greenway in New Orleans, December 8 - 31, 2019.
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(November 2019) Work featured in Juried Exhibition at Center for Photographic Art, Carmel
Alibi from Exposition has been selected from over 2,300 images to be featured in the Center for Photographic Art's 2019 International Juried Exhibition. On view November 2 - December 21, 2019. Juried by Paula Tognarelli
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(October 2019 - January 2020) Mullins work featured at Texas Photographic Society Exhibition in Houston
Work from Elysium will be on view in Urban Landscape at The Silos at Sawyer Yard in Houston, TX, October 26, 2019 - Janaury 4, 2020. The exhibition was juried by Jamie Stillings for the Texas Photographic Society.
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(October 2019) Mullins featured in Milwaukee Exhibition
Works from Exposition will be on view at the MWSPE Members Exhibition, Brooks Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Milwaukee, WI (Juried by Jennifer Murray, Executive Director of Filter Photo).
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(July 2019) Mullins' All Your Private Information selected for UnBound 8, Candela Books+Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
Colleen Mullins' limited edition book All Your Private Information will be on view at Candela Books+Gallery July 5 - August 3, 2019.
All Your Private Information is a limited-edition portfolio of photograms of embroideries of segments of the language of sextortion. Out of their initial, ill-intentioned source material, the words sing like the cut-out magazine letters, forming a strange ransom note. Beautifully rendered in silver, they coo, “good day, my prey” and “think about the shame.”
Each set of five photographic prints is contained in a handmade clamshell box with the title hand-embroidered on the front.
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(April 2019) Mullins' project Exposition selected as winner for Best Series for Editorial and Current Affairs category in the 13th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
Colleen Mullins project Exposition selected as winner for Best Series for Editorial and Current Affairs category in the 13th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Works from the series will be on view at Gallery Valid Foto in Barcelona in October 2019.
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(March 2019) Mullins an artist-in-residence at In Cahoots Press and Residency
Colleen Mullins an artist-in-residence for one week at In Cahoots Press and Residency in Petaluma, California.
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(January 2019) Mullins an artist-in-residence at Penland School of Craft
Colleen Mullins will be an artist-in-residence nat the Penland School of Craft, January 6-26.
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(September 2018) Mullins' work to appear in Humble Arts Foundation's Group Show #58: On Death.
Work from Mullins' upcoming artist book, Exposition, on the planned removal of the William McKinley statue in Arcata, California, is featured in the Humble Arts Foundation's Group Show #58: On Death.
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(May 2018) Mullins' work to appear in Politico Pop-Up at Artspace 3116 in New Orleans, LA.
Debuting Mullins' secretive second life as a fiber artist, the work Toolbelt will be on display in New Orleans at the 3rd Annual Politico Pop-Up exhibition. Click HERE for more information.
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(May 2018) Mullins' work to appear in Images of Water at the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka, CA.
Work from the project Fall Precautions to be featured in the Images of Water exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art.
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(January-May 2018) Mullins' work to appear in Tree Talk at the Griffin Museum of Photography Satellite Gallery in Boston.
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(11/15/17) Mullins work appearing in Muybridge's Horse
Work from my project Elysium was featured in the online magazine Muybridge's Horse in November.
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(11/17) Mullins' work to appear in Reno, NV in group exhibition at University of Nevada, Gallery
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(11/11/17) Mullins speaks at the regional conference of the Northeast Chapter of SPE
Shark Tank: Photo Book Edition is a dynamic lecture/performance in which Mullins has constructed a scenario in which a photographer is portrayed as a venture capitalist with photographs and money at the ready, and publishing models approach as entrepreneurs who wish to publish his book. Photographer and educator Bruce Myren will perform in the role of the venture capitalist/photographer. Details here.
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(10/21/17) Mullins speaks at the regional conference of the Northwest Chapter of SPE
Shark Tank: Photo Book Edition is a dynamic lecture/performance in which Mullins has constructed a scenario in which a photographer is portrayed as a venture capitalist with photographs and money at the ready, and publishing models approach as entrepreneurs who wish to publish his book. Photographer and educator O. Gustavo Plascencia will perform in the role of the venture capitalist/photographer. Details here.
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(10/13/17) Mullins to speak at the regional conference of the Midwest Chapter of SPE
Shark Tank: Photo Book Edition is a dynamic lecture/performance in which Mullins has constructed a scenario in which a photographer is portrayed as a venture capitalist with photographs and money at the ready, and publishing models approach as entrepreneurs who wish to publish his book. Photographer and educator Javier Carmona will perform in the role of the venture capitalist/photographer. Details here.
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(4/10/17) Mullins delivers talk at Portland's PhotoLucida
Shark Tank: Photo Book Edition is a dynamic lecture/performance in which Mullins has constructed a scenario in which a photographer is portrayed as a venture capitalist with photographs and money at the ready, and publishing models approach as entrepreneurs who wish to publish his book. Actor, Mike Dederian, will perform in the role of the venture capitalist/photographer, Bruce Myren. Details here.
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(3/9/17) Mullins delivers talk on photo book publishing at SPE
I just presented my new talk at The National Meeting of the Society for Photographic Education.Shark Tank: Photo Book Edition is a dynamic lecture/performance in which Mullins has constructed a scenario in which a photographer is portrayed as a venture capitalist with photographs and money at the ready, and publishing models approach as entrepreneurs who wish to publish his book. Photographer Bruce Myren performed in the role of the venture capitalist. See more here
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(1/1/17 - 1/21/17) Mullins Artist in Residence in North Carolina
I will be an Artist in Residence at the Penland School of Crafts, where I will be working on developing a prototype for a limited edition artist book for my long term project, Elysium.---
(10/8/16 - 1/29/17) Work Featured in Exhibition at Ogden Museum of Southern Art
My work will be included in Currents at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art December 8, 2016 - January 29, 2017.---
(12/2/16 - 1/7/17) Work Featured in Exhibition at Center for Fine Art Photography
My work will be included in Home at the Center for Fine Art Photography December 2, 2016 - January 7, 2017.---
(9/24/16-10/21/16) Mullins Artist in Residence in Vermont
I was honored to spend a month as an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, where I worked on developing my project Elysium into a trade publication.---
(10/20/15) Mullins Selected a 2015 artist to visit by SFOS
ArtSpan invited ten prominent professionals in San Francisco's art and culture industry to select one Juror's Choice Award artwork from the SF Open Studios Exhibition and their Top Ten SF Open Studios Artists to visit in 2015. Colleen Mullins' work was selected for the Top Ten SFOS Artist list by Juror Gabe Scott, Curator / Contributing Editor & Writer, Print & Web, Juxtapoz Magazine
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(10/8/15) Work Featured in Triton Hotel Exhibition
Work from the project Pictures of the Floating World will be on view at the Triton Hotel, October 8 - December 1, 2015---
(2/10/15) Feature on Earthwire
The magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council, On Earth/Earthwire featured my work on February 10, 2015. Thanks to Susan Cosier for the piece!
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(2/9/15) Elysium Featured on The New York Times Lens Blog
Writer, Jonathan Blaustein, wrote a beautiful piece on my project Elysium for The New York Times Lens blog. See it here.
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(December 2014) Mullins' work on view at Gallery 2114, New Orleans
Work from my project, Elysium, will be featured at Gallery 2114 in the Marigny in New Orleans through the 9th annual PhotoNOLA Festval.
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(October 24 - December 6, 2014) Mullins' work will be featured in a group exhibition as a part of San Francisco Open Studios
My Pictures of the Floating World work will be featured in a group exhibition as a part of San Francisco Open Studios at Dickerman Prints in San Francisco, CA.
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(10/10/14-3/20/15) Colleen Mullins' work featured in an exhibition at the Minnesota State Arts Board
Starting October 10th and running through March 20, 2015, the exhibition Perspectives will feature artists who were recipients of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant in photography 2012-2014.
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(8/14) Colleen Mullins' work featured in Virginia Collectors' exhibition, and is acquired for the Candela Galley Collection
My work from Pictures of the Floating World project was featured in the international juried exhibition, Unbound 3 at Candela Gallery in Richmond, VA in July and August. At the closing event it was purchased for the gallery's collection.
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(5/14) Mullins' work featured in exhibition in Minneapolis
Homegrown, The Playrights’ Center Gallery, featured my work in support of an original play about a photographer.
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(5/17/14 - 6/12/14) Mullins' New Orleans work featured inmassive exhibition in Moscow, Russia
My work was featured in an exhibition, New Orleans in Photographs, at the Multi-Media Museum, Moscow House of Photography in Russia. After the exhibition, the US Embassy in Moscow acquired the work for display in the American Ambassador to Russia's residence!
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(8/23/14) Colleen Mullins featured in New Textbook
Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century: Educators Share Thoughts and Assignments features one of my photography classroom assignments, and views on teaching. The book is by Michelle Bogre, who conducted intensive interviews with college educators from all over the world. I'm deeply honored to have been considered in such excellent company.
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(11/14/13) Colleen Mullins Work on View in San Francisco's City Hall!
Work from my project cultivar is on view for the next several months in the office of Supervisor Eric Mar in San Francisco's City Hall. Stop by and see the work (some of which is shot in the Supervisor's district), and let Supervisor Mar and his staff know how much you appreciate the work they are doing for cycling safety and bike parking safety in the City. This is probably one of the most special invitations I've ever had as an artist. My father was a city architect in the Bureau of Architecture for thirty years of his career, and I was born in the Richmond District, where my dad bought our house in the 40's, and I am now a second-generation property owner. Thanks also to Victor Ha and the other staffers and interns in Mar's office, who championed my work!
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(10/17/13) Colleen Mullins Featured on China's People's Photography
My work was featured by Yan Li on China's online photography magazine People's Photography on September 3rd! Thank you, Yan Li, for your support of my project, "cultivar"!
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(9/16/13) Colleen Mullins receives Honorable Mention at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
My work is currently on view at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in their Fall National Juried Exhibition, through October 6th. I was selected to receive an Honorable Mention award by juror, Jessica Brier, Curatorial Assistant of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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(08/07/13) Colleen Mullins Awarded Honorable Mention for work to be featured at Rayko Photo Center in September
My work will be on display at Rayko Photo Center September 12 - October 13, 2013 in The Easiest Season, curated by Ann Jastrab for the APA-SF's annual "Curator's Choice" exhibition. The work to be featured, Add-A-Room Tent, also won an Honorable Mention award.
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(8/1/13) Colleen Mullins has been commissioned to photograph for OverExposure.
I will be photographing at City Hall in Minneapolis in the wee hours to capture the first legal same-sex marriages being performed, August 1 for OverExposure!
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(06/18/13) Cultivar featured on Lenscratch!
My work was featured on Lenscratch blog on June 18, 2013.
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(06/17/13) Colleen Mullins work mentioned in HCP's Spot Magazine
My work is mentioned in an article featuring Ogden Museum Curator, Richard McCabe, in which he discusses southern photography and photography made in the south. Check it out! Pg. 18-27 New Southern Photography
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(05/30/13) Colleen Mullins Featured in July 2013 PDN
I am to be featured in the July 2013 issue of PDN, in an article about the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Included in the article is my image "Carr's Drive-In."
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(04/17/13) Colleen Mullins Featured in Midwest Contemporary in Chicago
My work has been selected by Natasha Egan and Karen Irvine of MOCP to appear in Midwest Contemporary at Lillstreet Gallery in Chicago this June.
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(1/28/13) Work from cultivar to be displayed in PhotoSpiva 2013.
The piece Add-A-Room Tent, 2010, will be on view at the Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin, MO, March - May 2013.
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(1/9/13) Colleen Mullins Named Recipient of 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist-Initiative Grant!
I just found out I have received substantial funding to support the promotion of my project cultivar, and to proceed with a mobile multimedia extension of the work.
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(7/10/12) Work from Elysium acquired by Ogden Museum!
Work recently acquired by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art will be on view as a part of a recent acquisitions exhibition, opening August 4th, and continuing through the end of the year!---
(6/13/12) Southerly Gold and Constance blogs feature Colleen Mullins
The Southerly Gold blog did an interview with me about my work Elysium, which is on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art through July 23rd, 2012. The piece was re-blogged in the Constance blog.---
(3/24/12) From the Field shares Elysium with its audience
From the Field, a blog by the editors of Lawn & Landscape Magazine, promoted my Elysium project last weekend on their site.---
(2/18/12)
Pictures of the Floating World got a little write up in TheBrownGirlFiles blog about the opening of the exhibition I'm in with Becky Olstad, Mano a Mano at RunnerRunner/Fischer Edit.---
(2/12/12) Elysium to be featured in a three-person exhibition at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
My project Elysium will be in an exhibition at the Ogden Museum opening April 19th! I'm honored to bring this project home to New Orleans.---
(2/12/12) cultivar to show at Vine Arts Center in Minneapolis through March 24
My work will be featured in a three-person exhibition at the Vine Arts Center in Minneapolis. I am a fiscal year 2011 recipient of the Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.---
(2/12/12) Portions of Pictures of the Floating World to show at Runner-Runner in Minneapolis (Reception; February 16)
Pictures of the Floating World is currently featured in a two-person exhibition in Minneapolis with Becky Olstad's The Sweet Science.---
(9/29/11) The Design Ark blog featured work from Elysium on September 26th.
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(09/19/11) Interview Feature on Mac-On-Campus Author Ron Egatz wrote a great piece on me in the Featured Educator section of Mac-on-Campus.
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(5/11/11) Colleen Mullins is one of four McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photographers
I just found out that I have been awarded a McKnight Fellowship for the continuation of my project cultivar.---
(3/15/11) Colleen Mullins Named Recipient of 2011 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist-Initiative Grant!
I just found out I have received substantial funding to support my project cultivar!---
April 2011 Issue of B&W Magazine Features Colleen Mullins
My project Pictures of the Floating World is featured in a multi-page article in B&W Magazine for April 2011.---
Green Muze Picks up Elysium
My work is featured in online magazine Green Muze December 27th.---
Trend Hunter Eco picks up Elysium
My work was featured on Trend Hunters Eco today (12/24/10 Merry Xmas). From the looks of it, nobody's been there, so get in there and click the "MUST" button!---
Elysium Work Featured as the 12/17/2010 Photo of the Day at PDN Online
PDN Online's Photo of the Day featured my work on Friday, December 17, 2010. It was also picked up by blogs Uncertain TImes, SpacesPeoplePlaces, L’instant Création, Curio City, This City Called Earth, Heartlogic Clips, Scrapbook, Ugly Culture, and Amusing Planet! I am particularly enjoying the play between the last two blog titles.---
"Elysium" featured in the current issue of Fraction Magazine
My work was showcased in a new feature of Fraction Magazine, "FractionJ", featuring photojournalism and documentary photography. The feature was curated by Pulitzer Prize winning photo editor Stella Kramer---
Korea's "Monthly Photo" Magazine Features Colleen Mullins
Monthly Photo did a 14-page spread on me in their May 2010 issue. The reproductions were terrific, and writer, Bokyung Kim, chose to talk about the broad spectrum of my work, and convinced me to give a sneak peek of the new project Cultivar.---
Colleen Mullins Serves as Juror for the 2010 Uptown Art Fair
With four other arts professionals, Colleen Mullins served as a juror for the prestigious Uptown Art Fair March 27-28.---
Pictures of the Floating World at Work Space Gallery in Lincoln, NE
January 8 - February 26, 2010WORKSPACE GALLERY
Sawmill Building | 440 N. 8th Street
Lincoln, Nebraska 68508HOURS:
Monday-Friday 8:00-5:30
and selected First Fridays 6:00-8:00 pmReception:
Friday, February 5th, 6:00-8:00pm
Gallery Talk and Reading by Artist, 7:00pm