9:13 a.m., Nov. 25, 2008----The UD@Crane satellite exhibition space will present Trajectories: Photography Alumni from the University of Delaware, from Dec. 11 through Jan. 31 at the Crane Arts Center, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia.

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An opening celebration event will be held from 6-9 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 11. The exhibition will be open from noon to 5 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays.

The University's Department of Art is offering free bus service to the opening celebration event. The buses will leave the Studio Arts Building at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 11, and return from the Crane Art Center at 9 p.m., arriving on the Newark campus at 10 p.m. To reserve a bus seat, send e-mail to Angela Davidson at [angdav@udel.edu] by Monday, Dec. 8. The buses are open to the entire university community.

Trajectories features the photographic work of Amy Colombo, Nancy Breslin, Ken Jones, Connie Imboden, Sean McDevitt, Lise Metzger, Ben Montague, Brian H. Petersen, Kevin Shook and Deborah Winram.

The creative practitioners whose work hangs in this exhibition represent over a hundred individual paths that have crossed since 1976 with a common point being the University of Delaware arts program, according to Virginia Bradley, chairperson of the Department of Art.

“These paths have collided with social, political, and cultural change that surround us and connect us in common experiences,” she said, adding, “The paths of photographers and their ideas have been challenged, questioned, and propelled forward by technical changes within the medium itself. Some break new ground by using new digital tools while others reach back, reinventing old techniques such as tintypes and cyanotypes, realizing that the applications have not yet been exhausted.”

Bradley said, “The constructed boundaries of medium have blurred since the modernist mindset and photography has been reinvented as sculpture, print, and installation. Photography's own trajectory through history has appeared in many guises - document, fine art object, pop media, and advertising. All of these manifestations are represented in this exhibition.

“Found within these images are hints of White's aesthetics, the footprints of photographic traditions, and a convergence of issues - both personal and communal. Most pronounced, however, is the idea of exploration and discovery.”

Trajectories was curated by J.D. Talasek, a University of Delaware photography master of fine arts alumnus. Talasek is director of cultural programs at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and is on the faculty of the master of arts in museum studies program at Johns Hopkins University.

UD@Crane is a two-story, 3,000-square-foot space that presents all practices of visual art, music, and literary and performing arts. UD's establishment of a satellite arts campus at the Crane enhances regional visibility of its visual and performing arts departments.

To keep current on UD events at the Crane, visit the web site [www.udel.edu/art/news/cranearts.htm].