In addition to speakers, we will be reviewing members images after the main presentation: see bottom of this page to see upcoming meeting presenters and who is sharing their images as well as how to signup to show your images.
New Meeting Days: Third Monday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
Monday April 21st, 2025
― Hopkins Center for the Arts ―
― 1111 Mainstreet Hopkins, MN 55343 ―
Map/ Parking and directions
The Ongoing Moment meets on the third Monday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
hosted by Mpls. ― based photographers Richard Ott and Walter Horishnyk
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theongoingmoment
Meetings are free, donations are welcome that goes toward special guest speakers,
snacks and beverages.
Sign up in advance to exhibit your images for a short discussion with the hosts and group attendees
by emailing: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com
RURAL URBAN FLOW
We are invested in the health of our
communities—including people, animals, plants, and the land itself.
The Ongoing Moment is a monthly meeting for PHOTOGRAPHERS / ARTISTS who wish to increase their understanding and improve their practice of their medium. The title refers to the idea that “we share experiences that are formally similar”
We explore past Master photographers and Contemporary photographers, looking at their images and artistic process to help us go forward on our own photographic journey.
Rural Urban FLOW
Regina M Flanagan
Regina M Flanagan is an artist, writer and landscape architect from Saint Paul. She holds master’s degrees in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota College of Design. From 1981-1998, she directed state and municipal public art programs, first in Wisconsin and later, Minnesota and managed over 135 projects for diverse clients and communities in the Upper Midwest. Solo and with others, she have designed and built public spaces, gardens, playgrounds, and streetscapes.
Her photography focusing upon ecologically significant landscapes in transition in Wisconsin and Minnesota has been featured in over 90 exhibitions since 1977. Collections include the Minnesota Historical Society, Madison (WI) Museum of Contemporary Art, and U.S. Bank Minneapolis, among others. In 2014, she was awarded an Artist’s Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to photograph the aftermath of the Pagami Creek Fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and was honored to receive a second grant in 2020 to create her first film Landscape Stories, Helen Allison Savanna. She will be showing her recent environmental portrait series about the participants in Rural Urban FLOW, a network of Wisconsin cultural and agricultural producers cultivating common ground.
Regina M Flanagan webpage:
https://www.reginaflanagan.photography
Rural Urban FLOW resources:
https://www.facebook.com/ruralurbanflow
https://www.youtube.com/@ruralurbanflow
We will also be giving away copies of SHOTS magazines
courtesy of Elizabeth Flinsch I Editor of Shots.
Elizabeth Flinsch will be speaking to us about her images as well as the magazine some time in the near future.
Book Giveaway:
At every meeting we have a book giveaway, attendees have a chance to receive our monthly book choice.
Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs Hardcover – May 15, 1997
When photographer Jerome Liebling arrived in Minnesota from his native New York City in 1949, he was a young man of twenty-five launching what would be nationally recognized as a distinguished career in fine art photography.
Here, in 118 photographs, is portrayed Liebling’s Minnesota. During two decades marked by social, political, and cultural change, Liebling traveled the state and found his largest subject—the depiction and interpretation of commonplace human experience.
The images range from the grain elevators and skid row of Minneapolis to the slaughterhouses of South St. Paul and the poor, working-class streets of St. Paul’s West Side; from the Iron Range and the Red Lake Indian reservation in the north to the farming towns in the south.
The vision of Minnesota that emerges from these extraordinary photographs is uniquely that of the artist, yet it leads viewers effortlessly to an enhanced understanding of the place, the times, and, always, the people.
Members sharing images these months:
You are encouraged to bring prints of your current or past work to share with the group, where you can ask for comments or reviews. We are a safe place to help you grow as artists and encourage creative exploration of all kinds. Please email us before the meetings with how many images you will share and tell us if you will be presenting digital or prints. If digital, bring images on a USB drive with only your images on it. All presenters will need to come 30 minutes before the meeting for preparation time.
email to: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com,
We will post your request below to your chosen month, Thanks
Monday, October 21st, 2024,: Main Topic/Presenter : Xavier Tavera Castro
Reviewing images of: Peter Boulay and Dan Tran
Monday, November 18th, 2024: Main Topic/Presenter : Steve Ozone
Reviewing images of: Dave Heinz and Julian
Monday, December 16th, 2024: Main Topic/Presenter : Nicole Houff
Reviewing images of: Dave Heinz
Monday, January 20th, 2025: An in depth review of Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
Monday, February 17th, 2025: Images by Howard M. Christopherson
Monday, March 17th, 2025: Mark Peterson & Collages made by meeting participants
Monday, April 21st, 2025: Regina M Flanagan will be showing her recent environmental portrait series about the participants in Rural Urban FLOW
Monday, May 19th
Monday, June 16th
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