Theo westenberger biography

Article by: Beth Huerta

Beth Huerta is the in-house editor and a photographer’s agent with the award-winning agency Candace Gelman & Associates.

You made it in the door. Whether you are attending a portfolio review with many agents or you’ve been invited to meet with just one, this step is huge. This meeting could lead to an extraordinary opportunity for growth – both as a professional photographer and as a person.

Prepare in advance, get your homework done. Google the agent’s site and familiarize yourself with their roster. Know why – without a doubt – you would be an asset to that agent’s group and business. Like a gladiator with work samples in hand, confidently enter the arena.

While every meeting is unique, there are some points you should be prepared to address. Any amount of preparation you do will arm you for success.

1. First Impression. For anyone who has been on a job interview, this is no different. First impressions go beyond a long way – they can be every
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   About the Artists

   Navajo, Born 1965

   Tony Abeyta is an award-winning contemporary artist who works in mixed-media painting. He graduated with an M.F.A. from New York University and holds an honorary doctorate from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He currently works in Santa Fe and Berkeley, California. His work is included in several prominent institutions, including the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles; the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California; the Denver Art Museum; the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

   Abeyta often focuses on painting the emotional experience one finds in the New Mexico landscapes. “There exists a rhythm in the land where I was born. I spend a lot of time deciphering the light, the cascades of mesas into canyon, the marriage between earth and sky, the light as it constantly changes at whim, the intensity of rock formations, and the sage and chamisa that accent this poetic experience, unlike anywher

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   “Reefs, Rubbish and Reason” will be the focus of the presentation and workshop led by Dr. Christine Wertheim, co-creator of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project, who will be a guest speaker of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media’s Visiting Artist Program on Thursday, March 29, at 8:30 p.m. in 209 McEwen Hall.

   She will also conduct a workshop on Friday, March 30, 10 a.m. to noon, at 321 Rockefeller Arts Center, to teach participants the technique of hyperbolic crochet in preparation for an ongoing student and community produced installation to be delivered to the campus in the spring of 2013.  Both novices and those with varying levels of crochet experience are welcome at the workshop.

   The lecture presentation and workshop are free and open to students and the public. They are supported by a Fredonia College Foundation Carnahan-Jackson Humanities grant and co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Sustainability Committee and Women’s and Gender Studies program.

   Wertheim, of the California Institute of the Arts, and her sister, Margaret, co-founde