The St. Joseph’s College Council for the Arts is proud to display the visually stimulating photographs of S. Patricia Manning taken during her cross-country journey: “Another View: Beyond Tourism.” During the Spring 2005 semester, S. Patricia Manning was granted a photographic sabbatical to travel around the United States and take pictures of people and places that wouldn’t ordinarily be featured in travel brochures and magazines.
S. Patricia Manning is a chairperson for the Art Department at St. Joseph’s College and has served the college in the Arts for 25 years. She teaches a variety of classes, including studies in Art, Graphic Design, Photography and Calligraphy and has exhibited her own work in galleries, studios and college campuses throughout New York and Philadelphia.
“Just when you thought you had seen all the spectacular beauty you could possibly experience, you would turn around a mountain bend or suddenly dip into a valley and there you were–awestruck once again,” remembered S. Patricia Manning from her journey throughout the country. “I never quite appreciated every nuance of the day’s venture until I got back to the computer each night to download the photos taken that day. It was then that I truly ‘saw’ on a screen what had been instinctive reaction to light, form and color in the heat of the moment of ‘capture’.”
The exhibit includes images depicting the beauty of the unknown and unfamiliar in the United States. S. Patricia Manning and her lifelong friend and colleague, Rosalie Tutino, traveled for six months, with the destination choices based on the suggestions of the local people in each region they visited. Throughout her travels, she visited many famous landmarks, choosing to photograph them in a different light. Upon completion of her journey, S. Patricia Manning took over 15,000 photographs of our nation and has selected the best 82 to be featured in her upcoming exhibit.
“Another View: Beyond Tourism,” will be shown from March 27, 2006 to April 21, 2006 in the Board Room Gallery located in O’Connor Hall on the Patchogue Campus of St. Joseph’s College. The exhibit will be moved to the Brooklyn Campus during the Fall 2006 semester and will also be shown at other venues in Manhattan and on the East End of Long Island. Photos will be available for sale via the web this spring.
For more information, please call (631) 447-3200 or visit www.sjcny.edu.
St. Joseph’s College is located at 155 W. Roe Blvd. in Patchogue, and is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Ave.).
