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RCC Photography Graduate Photo Wins Best in Show
in Inaugural Southeastern Photography Triennial (SPoT)

            ASHEBORO (May 10, 2007)

 

 

SetMichael Traister, a 1991 graduate of Randolph Community College’s Photographic Technology curriculum, recently won Best in Show in the inaugural Southeastern Photography Triennial (SPoT), a juried photography exhibition open to artists throughout the Southeast.
Traister won a $3,000 cash award, and his work will be exhibited along with other winners Aug. 23 – Oct. 7, 2007, at the Gallery of Art & Design, located in the Talley Student Center on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh, N.C.

Photographs were chosen for the exhibit by the distinguished American photographer Joyce Tenneson. Tenneson is a world-renowned fine art photographer and portraitist whose work has appeared in over 150 exhibitions and in 10 books.

The Gallery, N.C. State University’s art museum, houses one of the largest and strongest collections of photography in the region, with work representing the major figures in the history of photography.

Traister’s winning image, Impulse to Art, was one of a series of photographs he took for the book, Sock Monkey Dreams:
Daily Life at the Red Heel Monkey Shelter, with authors
Whitney Shroyer and Letitia Walker. Information on the book
is available at www.sockmonkeydreams.com.

For more information on Randolph Community College’s renowned Photographic Technology program, go to www.randolph.edu or call the Information Center at 336-633-0200.

 

 

 

 

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