National Parks swiftly becoming leader in New Technologies and Virtual Reality in Arts and Education

WASHINGTON DC, MARYLAND, USA, May 1, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Gettysburg National Military Park, the non-profit National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF), and the Gettysburg Foundation, are pleased to announce the residency of artist Brian Emery as the Park’s artist-in-residence for May and June of this year. He will be among the artists this year to represent the Alembic Arts (New Media). Mr. Emery will reflect on his work and residency during an Artist Showcase Presentation at the David Wills House in downtown Gettysburg on Friday, June 2, at 5 p.m.. The event is free, and open to the public.

Mr. Emery is an associate professor at New York’s acclaimed Fashion Institute of Technology, former Adjunct at Parson’s School of Design, and former Fellow to the John D. Rockefeller Library in Williamsburg, VA.

While at Gettysburg, Mr. Emery hopes to tell the story of the battle, the park, and the surrounding environs through three-dimensional scanning, photogrammetry, and cinematography. He writes of his technique, “I work with computational photographic technologies at the fringes of their capabilities, creatively misusing the tools to reveal something about the way our devices record our experience.”

Mr. Emery developed some of the techniques he will use at Gettysburg during a fellowship at Williamsburg, where he designed a multimedia project centered on the attic space of the Robert Carter III house, an early-18th century plantation out of town, and home to one of Virginia’s long serving members of the Commonwealth’s Governor’s Council. For the project, Mr. Emery created three-dimensional scans of the structure and spaces of the house, scanned portraits of the historians, archaeologists and other experts also researching the house, and made portraits of interpreters and visitors coming through the house. He recorded audio interviews with experts, and took ambient audio recordings throughout the house and the Historic District of Williamsburg. He finished with a large body of work regarding the house and its history, including a three-dimensional animated film, three-dimensionally printed models, and two-dimensional pigment prints of what is believed to be a rare example of an original 18th Century dwelling for Virginia slaves.

Programs like Gettysburg National Military Park’s artist-in-residence series, in which acclaimed artists find inspiration from the beauty and history of our national parks, and agree to share their ideas with park patrons, represent some of the highest aspirations of the National Park Service. As the park’s superintendent, Ed Clark, explains, “Gettysburg National Military Park can offer the perfect backdrop to provide inspiration for the arts. As the National Park Service strives to connect with new generations, we look forward to leading the arts and interpretation of Gettysburg into the future, while always remembering our mission of preserving history.”

To that end, the staff and rangers of Gettysburg National Military Park hope to welcome you to Mr. Emery’s talk, one which will address both the emerging new techniques of three-dimensional scanning and printing, as well as Mr. Emery’s artistic vision of how to use the new technologies to tell the story of Gettysburg.

Mr. Emery was chosen in the NEW thematic programming that invites artists of any media and genre to be inspired by the beauty, history and resources of Gettysburg National Military Park. This thematic program title is “ALEMBIC ARTS”, which is new technologies used as the media for art creations.

THE DEADLINE FOR ARTISTS TO APPLY FOR MOST 2018 PROGRAMS is April 20th, 2017.
This year is the FIRST YEAR we have introduced program themes to the Artist in Residence programs, in order to diversify the interconnection of the arts with broader demographic inclusion. These programs will alternate through 2017 & 2018 :

ALEMBIC ARTS (New Media) – this includes many varied and mixed arts media: virtual reality, film, photography, augmented reality, computer imaging, and any and all combinations of these in themselves, or in combination with classic art media.

LiterAudiArts: NPAF’s most fascinating theme focuses on many and all aspects of speech: words, sounds, song, and music. A few examples of this are POETRY, screenplays, spoken word, environmental recordings, sound art, wall of sound experimentation.

U.S. Military Veterans Artists in Residence: During January, July and November 2017, Gettysburg’s Artists in Residence bring U.S. Veterans to Gettysburg NMP for a unique and historical perspective of those who serve our country.

Arts Revolver: The months of these AiRs are open to any and all artistic media including cross-overs or hybrids with any of the other programmatic themes represented in the other months of Gettysburg Artist Residencies. This is for all artists in all artistic media.

The National Parks Arts Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the promotion of the National Parks of the U.S. by creating dynamic opportunities for artworks that are based in our natural and historic heritage. This project is supported by the Gettysburg Foundation and other generous benefactors. NPAF National Park projects are supported entirely by donation and generous partnerships.

All NPAF programs are made possible through the philanthropic support of donors ranging from corporate sponsors and small businesses, to art patrons and citizens- lovers of the parks. NPAF is always seeking new partners and donors for its wide-ranging philanthropic programs.


For more information on how you can support the Gettysburg National Military Park Artist in Residence and other NPAF arts programs nationwide contact :
Website : www.nationalparksartsfoundation.org
Email : admin@nationalparksartsfoundation.org
Phone number : 505-715-6492


For more information about Gettysburg National Military Park “Artists Presentation” call 717-338-4469.

Cecilia Wainright
National Parks Arts Foundation
505 715-6492
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