Wildlife and nature photographer Lisa Manifold is the Wonder Valley Community Center Artist of the Month for July 2018. Twelve photographs are on display and are for sale from $75 - $300. Manifold is donating 20% of her sales to the WVCC art program.
Manifold's work will be on display for the entire month of July. The WVCC is open from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. It will be closed July 4. The WVCC is located at 80526-1/2 Amboy Road, Wonder Valley, CA 92277.
Wonder Valley residents interested in being an artist of the month should contact Teresa Sitz for an application at teresa.sitz@sdd.sbcounty.gov or call (760) 367-9880.
From Lisa Manifold's Artist's Statement:
Photographs of my six siblings and I --- adorned in 60’s style outfits, hairdos, pointedly colorful eye glasses and toothless grins --- were prominently displayed in my childhood home. The memories of those photos coupled with my newfound love of grandchildren drove me to purchase a digital camera in 2015. Little did I know just how much that camera would change my life! One photo after another, click after click after click; a few college classes, seminars, and months on end of photographing, downloading and posting prompted me to retire to see the world full time, through a Nikon lens or two or three...
What I see and experience beyond the camera lens is captured in the photos I share through LM Manifold Photography on Facebook, Instagram and my website.
INSPIRATION
As a freelance wildlife and nature photographer I’ve found inspiration in the Southwest deserts --- Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan. The deserts are an absolute paradise to photograph: clear nights full of stars, meteors, and the milky way; moonlit pathways; unfathomable daylight perfection; “take-your-breath-away” sunsets and sunrises; monsoon lightning; hummingbird whimsy; lizard scampering dances, melodic Coyote “lullabies”; jackrabbit ears; cottontail tails, bobcats, tortoises, shaking rattlers; bighorn sheep; thundering hooves of wild horses; vast landscapes; Joshua Trees; magnificent Spring blossoms; geological wonders; uninhabited Homestead Cabins; earth shattering silence… Everyday is a new day to experience.
RECOGNITION and CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact Info: Not every photo I take is desert themed… sometimes my nomad spirit goes to the oceans, lakes, and forests. You can view my work and upcoming events on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – Manifoldlm -- and see my upcoming events and/or purchase a piece via a PM on Facebook, or my website: https://lisa-manifold.pixels.com
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Recognition:
Copper Mountain College’s Howl Art & Literary Magazine
(Volume 19), Joshua Tree, California; 2015
GuruShots™
My photo “Jack or Jack’ette?” was featured in 29 Photographs of the Most Amazing Faces on Earth (Thataren’t Human), March 28, 2017
GuruShots™
My “Roadrunner Flight” photograph was featured in “32 Photos of Creatures BIG and Small – We Photographers
Love to Photograph Them”, April 11, 2017
The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center’s Marine Corps Community Services Desert Life Style Magazine Spring/Summer of 2017, Vol 10 Issue 2; and Farewell 2008-17, Vol 9 Issue 3
The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s 2018 Arizona Wildlife Calendar: Wildlife Views,
Vol 60, Number
I‘ve also participated in two Highway 62 Art Tours and several local shows to include selection as a participant in the 2017 Joshua Tree National Park’s Art Expo. I look forward to hearing from or seeing you via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, on my website or at any upcoming events I’ll be participating in.
