Dinah DeFord, Lesley Jenkins and Beth Pearson will open their show, “Decisive Moments” on Mar. 2 at
2:00 p.m. with a reception until 4:00 p.m. The show will be on display in the Milligan Art Gallery
from Mar. 2 to Mar. 9. Dinah DeFord and Lesley Jenkins discuss their preparations for the art show.
Q. What medium(s) of art will be in your show?
A. JENKINS: Me and Dinah are mainly doing photography and Beth has art and sculpture as well.
Q. What did you have to do to get a show?
A. DEFORD: They either have to be an art minor or photography minor, or an art major or photography major. Minors have a group show, and majors have a solo show.
Q. How did you prepare for the show?
A. JENKINS: Hours and hours in the darkroom, reprinting basically everything unless it was perfect the
first time. Designing invitations, designing flyers, ordering mats, getting food-- there’s just all kinds of stuff.
A. DEFORD: You review and edit all the work that you’ve done since basic [photography]. As a minor,
you have to have several planning meetings with the group you’re doing the show with because you have to work as a team.
Q. What is most frustrating about preparing for a show?
A. DEFORD: Reprinting your work because it never comes out the same, and when you reprint your work
you might use different paper that responds differently when exposed.
A. JENKINS: Reprinting everything--that’s always the hardest part. I had
the same problems as Dinah did. Over the past four years you think that you’ve done everything right and it’ll look good, but after four years of experience you look at those pictures and say, “What was I thinking?”
Q. What are the benefits that come from doing a show?
A. DEFORD: Just the experience in putting it all together and doing a show. It’s seeing that the show is more than just the prints.
A. JENKINS: One of the things that I like about it is that a lot of my family and friends have never been able to see all my work at one time, so they can see it at the show. I also think it’s good if I get a career in photography to be able to say that I’ve had a show before.