TERRA FIRMA Exhibit at the Manhattan Beach Art Center featuring Robert Glenn Ketchum

When at UCLA, Ketchum studied with two very non-traditional photography practitioners, Edmund Teske and Robert Heinecken. Ketchum was especially influenced by Heinecken's use of many different materials in presenting his photographic imagery, some of which involved cloth and fabric. Working with UCLA, in 1985, Ketchum became the first American artist to enter their China exchange program. This began a 30-year collaboration with a nationally prestigious Chinese embroidery guild, to translate his photographs of the natural world into embroideries and loom weavings, of which two of the most recent are displayed here. Graceful Branch Movement, 2010 One of the largest 2-sided embroidery panels ever created, featuring the untraditional use of two stitches that were never previously combined. The detailed leaves are done in the most laborious "Suzhou fine style," and all the other background work is done in the "random" stitch. There more than 40 dye colors used, and the work took several embroiderers 3-years.

2018 Venice Art Walk Featuring Robert Glenn Ketchum

For more than 20yrs. I have contributed to this event. It is VERY fun!. Because of some significant sales in the past few years, I have been allowed an “oversized” contribution this year, as the committee recognizes my images have amazing detail that is best viewed at a larger scale. “Rivers of Life” is stunning at 40” wide. Come to the Google offices - view all the work being exhibited and auctioned. Eat, drink, be merry, enjoy music, AND bid up my piece. Help support healthcare for all!

2018 Venice Art Walk Featuring Robert Glenn Ketchum

For more than 20yrs. I have contributed to this event. It is VERY fun!. Because of some significant sales in the past few years, I have been allowed an “oversized” contribution this year, as the committee recognizes my images have amazing detail that is best viewed at a larger scale. “Rivers of Life” is stunning at 40” wide. Come to the Google offices - view all the work being exhibited and auctioned. Eat, drink, be merry, enjoy music, AND bid up my piece. Help support healthcare for all!

Saturday 5-9p SoLA Gallery, Manhattan Beach, California

For those of you that might live in the area, 2 of my new scarves will be offered in an auction to support SOLA, this Saturday night at the Manhattan Beach Art Center. Come by, enjoy the party, and bid MY pieces up - they are both quite beautiful AND WEARABLE!

The Event takes place this Saturday 5 - 9 pm at the Manhattan Beach Art Center. 1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Venice Art Walk 2017

Tomorrow is the ARTwalk at Google headquarters in Venice. It promises to be a perfect day of beach weather. Come enjoy the party, have some great food, and buy art for a good cause. If you scroll the catalog you will see  auction donations come from many of the most notable artists in Los Angeles. My piece is UNIQUE and made just for the event. Go bid it up! I give 100% of my sale to support the Venice Family Clinic. I hope to see you there.

Feel free to bid up my piece, “Peaking In My Butterfly Garden.”

https://paddle8.com/work/robert-glenn-ketchum/141459-peaking-in-my-butterfly-garden/

photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2017, @RbtGlennKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd

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2017 Venice Art Walk, "Peaking in My Butterfly Garden" by Robert Glenn Ketchum

The Venice ARTwalk display at Google is still some weeks away, but TODAY the Paddle8 Auction begins online.

Feel free to bid up my piece, “Peaking In My Butterfly Garden.”

https://paddle8.com/work/robert-glenn-ketchum/141459-peaking-in-my-butterfly-garden/

photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2017, @RbtGlennKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd

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Amon Carter Museum, "American Photographs, 1845 to Now”

"TWO POSSIBLE CHOICES FOR THE FUTURE” 1984
photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2016, @RbtGlennKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd

I would like to thank Assistant Curator of Photographs, Joy Jeehye Kim, PhD, and the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, TX for including the above image in their current exhibit, "American Photographs, 1845 to Now.” These 6-panels of imagery were created during the two years I spent in the Hudson River Valley working on a commission given to Stephen Shore, William Clift, and myself by the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund. Published as the Aperture monograph, “The Hudson River and the Highlands,” I also republished this work in greater length and detail in this blog: The Hudson River and the Highlands

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Amon Carter Museum, "American Photographs, 1845 to Now”

The G2 Gallery Exhibit, " 100 Years of National Parks: The West"

If you have not done so, please come to The G2 Gallery in Venice, California and enjoy the exhibit of western national parks in celebration of their 100th Anniversary.

Mandalac Gardens by Robert Glenn Ketchum

From August 11 - September 27, I will be exhibiting new work, MANDALAC GARDENS, at The G2 Gallery in Venice, California. This Constant Contact is background information about my color print-making history in general. and how it has lead me to this new series of "prints." I have also included all 9 of the images that will be in the exhibit, so please give this a read and enjoy the "show."

Robert Glenn Ketchum Unveils 'Mandalac Gardens' Series at Venice Art Walk

from the series:  MANDALAC GARDENS "Tequila Sunrise"   2015

Earth Month Los Angeles 2015 featuring Robert Glenn Ketchum

April 2, 2015 – April 26, 2015

Earth Month Los Angeles 2015 featuring LittleBearProd Client, Conservationist Robert Glenn Ketchum 

April 2, 2015 – April 26, 2015

National Wilderness Conference

The other recent event celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Wilderness Act I participated in was National Wilderness Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Organized by all of the collective federal agencies that manage wilderness lands, this was a multi-day event featuring numerous presentations and distinguished speakers such as Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, author Terry Tempest Williams, and Senator Tom Udall. I was asked to be an "inspirational" closing keynote speaker, along with my old friend, Dave Foreman, author of Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, and co-founder of Earth First!, the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and  most recently, the Rewilding Institute.  Dave Foreman, Environmentalist, and Robert Glenn Ketchum, Conservation Photographer, 2014

50th Anniversary of The Wilderness Act

As I mentioned previously, 2014-2015 is the 50th Anniversary of The Wilderness Act. There were many celebrations of this, and I took part in two of them which have some interesting links I have provided here for you to enjoy.  The Crary Gallery in Philadelphia is in Warren County, near to Tionesta township and the Allegheny River. Tionesta was the home of Howard Zahniser who wrote the original Wilderness Act, so the Crary Gallery honored him by having a large exhibit of photographers whose work would show the breadth of wilderness in North America. Among them, I am the only photographer whose work has ever actually helped to create wilderness, so the curator honored the special nature of those images and included brief text / stories with the display.  If you would like to see the actual gallery and installation, here is a short YouTube video: Wilderness at 50 - invited photographers There was also a very nice print catalog produced for the exhibit:  The essays are short yet very informative and worth a read. You will learn something about the amazing American wilderness system and enjoy great pictures as well! And lastly, here are the images I was proud to display as wilderness to which I feel a special connection: Tracy Arm, TRACY ARM-FORDS TERROR WILDERNESS, Tongass National Forest, AK photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2015 @RbtGlennKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd  During the 1980's, considerable momentum developed within the environmental community to protect the largest of all national forests, the Tongass rainforest in southeast Alaska. A unique old-growth, temperate rainforest covering over 1,000 islands and a coastal fjordland, the Tongass was being clearcut, an industrial logging technique that was disrupting substantial habitat. Beginning in 1985, Ketchum spent 2-years in Southeast, photographing and doing research that was then published as the Aperture book, The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest.  Ketchum had the book delivered to all of Congress, exhibiting prints at the National Museum of Natural History and in the Senate Rotunda. In 1990, President George Bush, Sr. signed the Tongass Timber Reform Bill into law. Not only was it the most comprehensive timber reform bill in American history, it created 11 new wilderness areas and protected over one million acres of pristine forest habitat. In acknowledgment of the contributions of his work, Ketchum was invited to the White House to meet President Bush and also given the United Nations Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award by the King of Sweden.  Twin Lakes, LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Southwest AK photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2015 @RbtGlennKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd  In 1998, Ketchum was introduced to southwest Alaska and the Bristol Bay fishery by fellow board members of the Alaska Conservation Foundation. Intending to make the public more aware of this remarkable part of the state and the valuable fishing resources, Ketchum published, Southwest Alaska: The Last Great Salmon Fishery in 2001. Fish were not the only resource however for the area hosts Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and the largest state park, Wood-Tikchik. In 2004 Ketchum published, Wood-Tikchik: Alaska's Largest State Park. In 2005 a huge Canadian mining consortium proposed the largest open-pit copper and cyanide gold-leach mine in the world, to be located adjacent Lake Clark National Park in the headwaters of the fishery. In response, Ketchum organized and circulated an exhibit entitled, "Southwest Alaska: A World of Parks and Wildlife Refuges at the Crossroads" and he began building an extensive social media platform. Dawn, Upper Togiak, TOGIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE,  Southwest AK photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2015 @RbtGlennKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd  Southwest Alaska is home to Alaska's largest state park, two national parks, and two national wildlife refuges, one of which is 4.5 million acre Togiak National Wildlife Refuge - a completely roadless wilderness. All of these wild lands are pristine habitat that would have their air and water quality severely compromised if the proposed Pebble mine were to be built. Besides the books and exhibits, Ketchum also used his imagery to build a social media following and helped to create a coalition of over 100 partners opposing the mine. Currently the spokesperson for that group is Robert Redford, and the media campaign has been so successful, as of this year all the principal investors have withdrawn. Further, the EPA is considering canceling the mining permit. Former Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, gave Ketchum the Partnerships In Conservation Award for the work he did to help build the coalition. Mt. Fairweather and the Alsek Glacier, 1 a.m., GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, AK photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2015 @RbtGlennKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd  In the mid-1980's a Canadian mining consortium proposed developing a gold mine on a tributary of the Tatshenshini, a large river that comes out of Canada and winds it's way between Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Ketchum was asked by The Nature Conservancy to float the river and his photographs and story were published in LIFE magazine, breaking this news in the American press. Concerns the mining would impact the parks, the river's fishery and the perhaps even the Gulf of Alaska caught the attention of politicians, in particular, Al Gore who voiced opposition to the mine in the Senate, and spent time persuading his friend, the Canadian Prime Minister, to reconsider the mining permit. Ketchum and a coalition of photographers and writers generated many stories in the press and worked together to produce a book, Tatshenshini: River Wild. Canada withdrew the mining permit, and requested World Biosphere status for the river corridor to protect its wilderness. In so doing, three vast wilderness areas, Wrangell-St.Elias - Tatshenshini - Glacier Bay, were linked creating the largest legally designated contiguous wilderness expanse on the planet.

Venice Art Walk 2014 - Los Angeles

The weekend of May 17-18 is a BIG fundraising effort for both Crossroads School (where my children go) and for the Venice Family Clinic and their legendary annual ARTWALK. Yesterday I posted the auction image and information about Crossroads, but that is an event for the school only, not the general public.

On Sunday the 18th, however, the ARTWALK event is VERY public so come enjoy the MANY things that are going on.

"Adrift in The Garden" 2014 
24" x 36" 
manipulated photograph printed on aluminum 
photograph © 2014 Robert Glenn Ketchum

This image will be part of those displayed in the Google headquarters in Venice which serve as the auction galleries. Great food trucks and wine, some of LA's best artists, and a great cause! Come to Venice on Sunday the 18th, enjoy the party and BID MY PRINT UP - it was made uniquely for this auction. ~Robert Glenn Ketchum

XRDSARTS2014: Alchemy - Where Science and Art Meet

XRDSARTS2014: Alchemy - Where Science and Art Meet.

Crossroads School is hosting an event for the parents of Crossroads students on Saturday, May 17th at Hangar 8 in Santa Monica. With the imminent construction of their new science building in 2014, they will be exploring the intersection of art and science as the driving theme behind this event. A highlight of the evening will be a stunning art show and silent auction, surrounded by a fabulous party, fantastic food and merriment!

"The Dark Of Heartness" 2014 
16" x 38" 
manipulated color photograph printed on aluminum
Photograph © 2014 Robert Glenn Ketchum 

For all my friends that have children at Crossroads, please buy a ticket to XRDSARTS2014: Alchemy - Where Science and Art Meet. I have this print, made directly on aluminum in the auction, as well as another print on a silk charmeuse scarf and I NEED ALL OF YOU TO RALLY AROUND MY WORK, BID IT UP! and lets make some serious money for Crossroads this year while having fun. ~Robert Glenn Ketchum

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Adults only. Tickets are all-inclusive for dinner, drinks, entertainment, and parking. Parents are invited to wear their Steampunk finest or other festive attire if they choose. Free childcare is available at Crossroads Elementary School for grades K-8 by reservation only; contact Heidi Wong at hwong@xrds.org.

ART 90266 featuring Robert Glenn Ketchum

This month THREE different auctions will offer unique digital prints on metal that are part of my new work.

"Looking For Love"   2014

21" x 24"

manipulated color photograph printed on aluminum

unique piece, SRP: $750

Art, Southern California Style

Robert Glenn Ketchum, The G2 Gallery, and the Los Angeles Art Show 2014

Look For Gary Braasch's Climate Change Exhibit at Reagan National Airport

Many of the 50,000 passengers passing through Reagan National airport in Washington DC daily will now see a different kind of advertisement in the concourse:  a new public education initiative has installed a photographic billboard of ongoing climate change today.

In Defense of the Natural World by Robert Glenn Ketchum, January 3, 2011

In Defense of the Natural World 
by Robert Glenn Ketchum, Founding Fellow, International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), January 3, 2011

Robert Glenn Ketchum is a world-renowned conservation photographer, a United Nations’ Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award winner, one of Audubon’s 100 people who “shaped the environmental movement in the 20th Century” and the first visual artist in residence at Sundance. As of 2010, Ketchum became No. 5 in American Photo magazine’s Master Series. According to American Photo, “He is not a household name, even in genteel households familiar with photography’s luminaries. He wouldn’t be counted in the firmament of Richard Avedon, Annie Liebovitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson or Helmut Newton, the subjects of American Photo’s prior Master Series issues. Robert Glenn Ketchum, a champion of the modern environmental movement for more than 30 years, may well be the most influential photographer you’ve never heard of.”